June 12
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June 12 is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 202 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 950 – Emperor Reizei of Japan (d. 1011)
- 1107 – Emperor Gaozong of Song, of China (d. 1187)
- 1519 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
- 1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss mathematician and astronomer (d. 1643)
- 1771 – Patrick Gass, American sergeant in the Lewis and Clark expedition (d. 1870)
- 1802 – Harriet Martineau, American journalist, political economist, abolitionist and feminist (d. 1876)
- 1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American architect (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
- 1827 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (d. 1901)
- 1885 – Frank Ferera, Hawaiian musician (d. 1951)
- 1890 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (d. 1918)
- 1892 – Basil Rathbone, British actor (d. 1967)
- 1892 – Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)
- 1897 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
- 1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist (d. 1986)
- 1902 – Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
- 1905 – Ray Barbuti, American athlete (d. 1988)
- 1908 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (d. 2010)
- 1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker
- 1916 – Paul Hector Castro, American politician
- 1919 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (d. 2004)
- 1921 – Luis Garcia Berlanga, Spanish movie director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Guenter Behnisch, German architect (d. 2010)
- 1924 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
- 1928 – Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician
- 1929 – Anne Frank, diary writer who died in the Holocaust (d. 1945)
- 1929 – Brigid Brophy, British writer (d. 1995)
- 1929 – Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani writer and Urdu language scholar
- 1933 – Eddie Adams, American photographer (d. 2004)
- 1937 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician (d. 2010)
- 1941 – Chick Corea, American musician
- 1942 – Bert Sakmann, German physiologist
- 1945 – Pat Jennings, Northern Irish footballer
- 1949 – Jens Boehrnsen, German politician, former acting President of Germany
- 1951 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (d. 2007)
- 1951 – Brad Delp, American musician (d. 2007)
- 1952 – Pete Farndon, English musician (d. 1983)
- 1952 – Spencer Abraham, American politician
- 1961 – Hannelore Kraft, German politician
- 1971 – Mark Henry, American professional wrestler
- 1973 – Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer
- 1974 – Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
- 1976 – Thomas Sorensen, Danish footballer
- 1979 – Diego Milito, Argentine footballer
- 1979 – Robyn, Swedish singer
- 1980 – Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby player
- 1981 – Nora Tschirner, German television presenter
- 1982 – Jason David, American football player
- 1983 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
- 1986 – Sergio Rodriguez, Spanish basketball player
- 1986 – Stanislava Komarova, Russian swimmer
- 1987 – Abbey Lee Kershaw, Australian model
- 1987 – Antonio Barragan, Spanish footballer
- 1988 – Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
- 1992 – Allie DiMeco, American actress and musician
Deaths [change]
- 816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750)
- 1020 – Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1560 – Imawaga Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
- 1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
- 1758 – Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
- 1878 – George V of Hanover (b. 1819)
- 1912 – Frederic Passy, French Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1822)
- 1932 – Theo Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
- 1937 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
- 1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1904)
- 1963 – Medgar Evans, American Civil Rights activist (b. 1925)
- 1964 – Walter Seifert, German retired World War II veteran, ran amok in a Cologne school (b. 1922)
- 1980 – Billy Butlin, British holiday entrepreneur (b. 1899)
- 1980 – Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
- 1982 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist (b. 1886)
- 1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)
- 1987 – Paul Janes, German footballer (b. 1912)
- 1990 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill, Northern Irish politician (b. 1914)
- 1994 – Ronald Goldman, American waiter and murder victim (b. 1968)
- 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (b. 1959)
- 2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian hostage taker (b. 1978)
- 2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
- 2006 – Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Nijiro Tukuda, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
- 2009 – Felix Malloum, President of Chad (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Elinor Ostrom, American economist (b. 1933)
Events [change]
- 1381 – Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
- 1418 – An Insurrection delivers Paris to control of the Burgundians.
- 1429 – Battle of Jargeau: Joan of Arc leads the French army in the capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the battle's second day.
- 1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
- 1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is founded.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his Union troops from their positions, handing victory to Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
- 1872 – The Royal Mint (where money is made) opens in Melbourne.
- 1889 – The Armagh rail disaster occurs in present-day Northern Ireland, killing 78 people.
- 1897 – Carl Elsener patents a small pen knife, now called the Swiss army knife.
- 1898 – The republic of the Philippines declares independence from Spain.
- 1899 – United States: The New Richmond tornado kills 117 people.
- 1929 – Anne Frank is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- 1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
- 1942 – Anne Frank receives her diary for her 13th birthday.
- 1962 – The Roraima National Park is created in the border area of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana.
- 1963 – Civil Rights activist Medgar Evans is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi by Byron De La Beckwith.
- 1964 – Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison.
- 1967 – The United States Supreme Court rules in the Loving v Virginia case that US State laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional.
- 1967 – Venera programme: The Venera 4 space probe is launched to Venus.
- 1975 – Indira Gandhi is found guilty of electoral corruption.
- 1978 – David Berkowitz is sentenced to 365 years in prison for the six Son of Sam murders in New York.
- 1987 – Ronald Reagan makes a speech at the Brandenburg Gate, calling for Mikhail Gorbachev to 'Tear down this wall!'
- 1987 – Jean-Bedel Bokassa, former self-declared Emperor of the present-day Central African Republic, is sentenced to death.
- 1990 – The parliament of Russia declares its sovereignty.
- 1991 – Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia.
- 1991 – The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 Tamil civilians in the eastern Sri Lankan village of Kokkadichcholai.
- 1993 – Elections are held in Nigeria, but they later annulled by the military government under Ibrahim Babangida.
- 1994 – A referendum in Austria supports EU membership.
- 1994 – Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson are murdered in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson is later found not guilty of their murders.
- 1994 – The Boeing 777 makes its first flight.
- 1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
- 1999 – A NATO-led UN peacekeeping force enters Kosovo.
- 2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing a bus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It results in a stand-off in which do Nascimento and one of the hostages die.
- 2004 – UEFA Euro 2004 in Portugal starts, as the Portugal national football team, hosting the tournament, loses 2-1 to the Greece national football team.
- 2009 – A Presidential Election is held in Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims victory over Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Soon after, protests begin in Tehran against his rule, following the controversial outcome of the election.
Observances [change]
- Independence Day (the Philippines)
- Loving Day (United States)
- Russia Day
- World Day Against Child Labour
- Chaco Armistice Day (Paraguay)
