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July 21, 2012

On July 21, 2012, erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world. The year's #1 song was "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye featuring Kimbra. Artem Kotenko, Princess Athena of Denmark, Blue Ivy Carter would arrive in the same year.

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2012 (MMXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2012th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2010s decade.

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On July 21, 2012

  1. 2012 Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.

    Turkish adventurer (born 1961)

    Erden Eruç is a Turkish-American adventurer who became the first person in history to complete an entirely solo and entirely human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth on 21 July 2012 in Bodega Bay, California, United States. The journey had started from Bodega Bay a little more than five years earlier on 10 July 2007. The modes of transport included a rowboat to cross the oceans, a sea kayak for shorelines, a bicycle on the roads and hiking on trails, along with canoes for a few river crossings.

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Died on July 21, 2012

Alexander Cockburn Scottish-born Irish-American political journalist and writer
Marie Kruckel American baseball player
Ali Podrimja Albanian poet
James D. Ramage American admiral (1916–2012)
Angharad Rees British actress (1944–2012)
Don Wilson English cricketer and coach

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Artem Kotenko 2012– Ukrainian singer
Princess Athena of Denmark 2012–
Blue Ivy Carter 2012– American singer and actress
Doug the Pug 2012– American celebrity dog
Artem Kotenko 2012– Ukrainian singer
Princess Athena of Denmark 2012–

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