July 12, 2004
- MLB All-Star Game: In the Home Run Derby, the Baltimore Orioles' Miguel Tejada defeats the Houston Astros' Lance Berkman 5–4 in the finals. Tejada sets a record for a single competition with 27 total home runs.
- Copa América: Mexico's player Jared Borgetti has to return to Mexico due to the death of his sister. (Soccernet at ESPN)
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“April is in my mistress’ face,
And July in her eyes hath place,
Within her bosom is September,
But in her heart a cold December.”
—Unknown. Subject #4: July Subject #5: September Subject #6: December. All Seasons in One. . .
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932)