On July 12

7: Length, in months, of siege by Spanish forces that captured Haarlem, a city in the Netherlands, in 1573

200: Number of villagers and vacationers killed when a hidden lake burst out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in western Europe, in 1892

33 cents: Hourly amount of first federal minimum wage passed by Congress in 1933

27: Number of people killed in a four-day race riot in Newark, N.J., in 1967