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.
*1418 - An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
*1429 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
*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.
*1775 - American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offered a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
*1830 - Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers landed 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
*1859 - The Comstock Lode is discovered near Virginia City, Nevada.
*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.
*1885 - At a murder trial in France, a roof collapses, killing 30 people.
*1889 - 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in Northern Ireland.
*1896 - J.T. Hearne sets a cricket record for the earliest date of taking 100 first-class wickets.
*1898 - Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
*1899 - New Richmond Tornado: 8th deadliest tornadoe in U.S. history - killing 117 and injuring around 200 people.
*1902 - Australia: Women in the four Australian States without female suffrage achieved the right to vote in Commonwealth elections under Section 3 of the Commonwealth Franchise Act for an Uniform Federal Franchise. Specifically excluded from enrolling to vote were 'aboriginal native[s] of Australia Africa Asia or the Islands of the Pacific except New Zealand' unless covered under Section 41 of the Constitution of Australia.
*1903 - Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music.
*1922 - St.Louis Brown pitcher Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth three consecutive times.
* 1922 - In Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded - the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
*1931 - Charlie Parker equals cricket record for the earliest date to reach 100 wickets. Tich Freeman reaches 100 wickets a day later.
* 1935 - Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay, 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 Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
*1942 - Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
* 1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot dead 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. [1]
* 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 - in New York City's Central Park, 750,000 people rally against nuclear weapons. 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 at Brandenburg Gate.
*1988 - Rusty Wallace wins the last Nascar Winston Cup race at the Riverside International Raceway
*1990 - Russia Day – The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
*1991 - Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
*1993 - Nigerian presidential elections held with the largest turnout ever. Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola (popularly known and called M. K. O.), an international businessman and politician, who was the candidate of the Social Democratic Party overwhelmingly defeated rival Alhaji Bashir Tofa, candidate of the National Republican Convention. After most of the results were announced, the election was annulled by military president Ibrahim Babangida. Subsequent nationwide and international protests forced Babangida to relinquish power albeit to his handpicked Interim National Government.
*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.
* 1994 - German districts Röbel and Waren are merged to form Müritz
*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 (with the exception of the All-Star Game).
* 1997 - The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant. [2]
*1998 - The Philippines celebrates its centennial year of Independence from Spain.
*1999 - Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins – NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
*2000 - Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do Nascimento and a hostage.
*2004 - A 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.

Births

*1107 - Emperor Gaozong of China (d. 1187)
*1519 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
*1577 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
*1659 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai (d. 1719)
*1775 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851)
*1812 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
*1819 - Charles Kingsley, English writer (d. 1875)
*1827 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (d. 1901)
*1861 - William Attewell, English cricketer (d. 1927)
*1875 - Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953)
*1890 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
*1892 - Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)
*1897 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
*1899 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)
*1903 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
*1905 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (d. 1988)
*1906 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
*1908 - Marina Semenova, Russian ballerina
* 1908 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian TV pioneer and president of the CBC (d. 1988)
*1910 - Bill Naughton, British playwright (d. 1992)
*1913 - Jean Victor Allard, Canadian army general (d. 1996)
*1915 - Christopher Mayhew, British politician (d. 1997)
* 1915 - David Rockefeller, American banker
*1916 - Irwin Allen, American film producer (d. 1991)
*1918 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
*1919 - Uta Hagen, American actress (d. 2004)
*1920 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
* 1920 - Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
*1921 - James Houston, Canadian artist (d. 2005)
*1924 - George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
*1926 - Jackie Pallo, wrestler (d. 2006)
*1928 - Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter
* 1928 - Vic Damone, American singer
*1929 - Brigid Brophy, British writer
* 1929 - Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
*1930 - Jim Nabors, American actor and musician
*1932 - Rona Jaffe, American novelist
*1939 - Frank McCloskey, American politician (d. 2003)
*1941 - Marv Albert, American sportscaster
* 1941 - Chick Corea, American musician
*1942 - Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
*1945 - Pat Jennings, Northern Irish footballer
*1946 - Harry Glasper, British writer
*1949 - Marc Tardif, Professional ice hockey player
*1094 - John Wetton, British musician (Asia)
*1951 - Brad Delp, American singer
* 1951 - Bun E. Carlos, American drummer (Cheap Trick)
*1952 - Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)
*1953 - Allan Weiner, American radio pirate & shortwave radio station owner.
*1957 - Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer and coach
* 1957 - Timothy Busfield, American actor
*1958 - Rebecca Holden, American actress and singer
*1959 - John Linnell, American musician (They Might Be Giants)
*1964 - Paula Marshall, American actress
*1965 - Filip Topol, Czech musician and writer
*1967 - Frances O'Connor, Australian actress
*1968 - Bobby Sheehan , American musician Blues Traveler (d. 1999)
* 1968 - Scott Aldred, Baseball player
*1969 - Mathieu Schneider, American professional ice hockey player
*1971 - Ryan Klesko, American baseball player
* 1971 - Mark Henry, American professional wrestler
*1973 - Darryl White, Australian footballer
*1974 - Hideki Matsui, Japanese Major League Baseball player
* 1974 - Jason Mewes, American actor
*1976 - Thomas Sørensen, Danish footballer
*1980 - Larry Foote, American football player
*1981 - Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel
*1983 - Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player
*1985 - Tasha-Ray Evin, Canadian singer/guitarist (Lillix)

Deaths

* 816 - Pope Leo III
* 918 - Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians
*1020 - Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
*1418 - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
*1435 - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
*1565 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)
*1567 - Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
*1647 - Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian
*1675 - Duke Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (b. 1634)
*1734 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military commander (b. 1670)
*1758 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
*1778 - Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716)
*1816 - Pierre François Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione, French marshal (b. 1757)
*1912 - Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822)
*1917 - Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (b. 1853)
*1957 - Jimmy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1904)
*1962 - John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)
*1963 - Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
*1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (b. 1891)
*1969 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (b. 1899)
*1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (b. 1892)
*1980 - Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
* 1980 - Masayoshi Ohira, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)
*1982 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
*1983 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (b. 1902)
*1989 - Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
*1994 - Ronald Goldman, American actor and model (murdered) (b. 1969)
* 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, American ex-wife of O. J. Simpson (murdered) (b. 1959)
* 1994 - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher Rebbe (b. 1902)
*1995 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
*1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
*2000 - P.L.Deshpande, Marathi Writer (b. 1919)
*2002 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922)
*2003 - Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
*2006 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
*2006 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

*Roman Empire – sixth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
*Philippines – Araw ng Kalayaan (Independence Day) 1898
*Russian Federation – Russia Day (Independence Day) 1990
*United Kingdom – Trooping the Colour (Military celebration of the monarch's official birthday held in London on the second Saturday of June)
*Brazil – Dia dos Namorados (Lover's Day; similar to St. Valentine's)
*World Day Against Child Labor

Liturgical feasts

* Saints Basilides, Quirinus, Nabor and Nazarius (and Celsus), martyrs
* Saint Cunera [HCC]
* Blessed Eskill, bishop, martyr [ GTZ: Scandinavia]
* Blessed John of Sahagun, hermit, confessor
* Saint Leo III died 816
* Saint Odulf of Oirschot died 865=?Odulph, confessor [GTZ: Cologne; HCC, in red]
* Blessed Guido (died 1250)
* Saints Nabor and Nazarius, martyrs [GTZ: St. Avold]
* Blessed Onuphrius, monk
* Saint Rufus, bishop, martyr [WTS (Bruges)]
* Blessed Ternan, bishop, confessor [ GTZ: Scotland]
* Saint Ursinus, bishop of Bourges, confessor (Translation day) [GTZ: Rouen]
* Saint Pharaildis, virgin [GTZ: Artois]

External links

* BBC: On This Day
* The New York Times: On This Day
* On This Day in Canada

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