June 12

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June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

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. [1] (http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Huey_Long_Filibusters.htm)
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. [2] (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/loving.html)
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-B�del 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. [3] (http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/rr1746.htm)
1998 - A jury in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, convicts 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School. [4] (http://www.cnn.com/US/9806/12/school.shooting.verdict/)
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

1675 - Duke Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (b. 1634)
1957 - Jimmy Dorsey, musician (b. 1904)
1963 - Medgar Evers, civil rights activist (b. 1925)
1980 - Milburn Stone, actor
1983 - Norma Shearer, actress (b. 1902)
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of OJ Simpson (b. 1959)
1994 - Ronald Goldman, actor and model (b. 1969)
2002 - Bill Blass, fashion designer (b. 1922)
2003 - Gregory Peck, actor (b. 1916)

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)
World Day Against Child Labor