12 June
June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining.
Events
- 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: In England rebels arrive at Blackheath.
- 1653 - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard - lasted until June 13.
- 1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
- 1758 - French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg - James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
- 1889 - 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in Northern Ireland.
- 1898 - General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
- 1935 - Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words.
- 1935 - Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
- 1939 - The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.
- 1940 - World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at St. Valery-en-Caux.
- 1942 - Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
- 1963 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.
- 1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron de la Beckwith.
- 1964 - South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison.
- 1967 - The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
- 1967 - Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).
- 1978 - David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
- 1979 - Bryan Allen flies the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.
- 1981 - Major League Baseball players begin a 49 day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation.
- 1982 - 750,000 people rally against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt are in attendance.
- 1987 - The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
- 1987 - Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
- 1990 - The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty (see Russia Day).
- 1991 - Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
- 1991 - The Chicago Bulls win their first National Basketball Association championship. The Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one.
- 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.
- 1996 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
- 1997 - Interleague play begins in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.
- 1997 - The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.
- 1998 - A jury in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, convicts 17-year-old 1999 - Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins - NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enter the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Births
- 1827 - Johanna Spyri, author (d. 1901)
- 1875 - Sam De Grasse, actor (d. 1953)
- 1890 - Egon Schiele, painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
- 1892 - Djuna Barnes, author (d. 1982)
- 1897 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
- 1903 - Emmett Hardy, jazz musician (d. 1925)
- 1905 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (d. 1988)
- 1915 - David Rockefeller, banker
- 1916 - Ivan Tors, movie producer (d. 1983)
- 1916 - Irwin Allen, movie producer (d. 1991)
- 1918 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, movie producer (d. 2001)
- 1919 - Uta Hagen, actress (d. 2004)
- 1920 - Dave Berg, cartoonist for Mad Magazine (d. 2002)
- 1921 (some sources say 1919) - Vera Ralston, actress
- 1921 - James Houston, artist
- 1924 - George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
- 1928 - Vic Damone, singer
- 1929 - Anne Frank, Nazi victim known for her diary (d. 1945)
- 1929 - Brigid Brophy, British writer
- 1930 - Otto Schenk, actor and director
- 1930 - Jim Nabors, actor and musician
- 1932 - Rona Jaffe, novelist
- 1935 - Christoph Meckel, writer
- 1941 - Chick Corea, musician
- 1941 - Marv Albert, sportscaster
- 1946 - Harry Glasper, writer
- 1957 - Javed Miandad, great cricketer and coach, Pakistan national cricket team
- 1974 - Jason Mewes, actor
- 1974 - Hideki Matsui, Major League Baseball player
Deaths
Holidays and observances
June 11 - June 13 - May 12 - July 12 -- listing of all days
