June 12
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June 12 is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 201 days remaining after June 12 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1519 – Cosimo I de'Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
- 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 Lippmann, American biochemist (d. 1986)
- 1908 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (d. 2010)
- 1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker
- 1919 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (d. 2004)
- 1921 – Luis Garcia Berlanga, Spanish film director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Guenter Behnisch, German architect (d. 2010)
- 1924 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (1989 – 1993)
- 1929 – Anne Frank, diary writer who died in the Holocaust (d. 1945)
- 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)
- 1961 – Hannelore Kraft, German politician
- 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
- 1982 – Jason David, American football player
- 1983 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
- 1988 – Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
- 1992 – Allie DeMeco, American actress and musician
[change] Deaths
- 816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750)
- 1560 – Imawaga Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
- 1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
- 1758 – Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1994 – Ronald Goldman, American waiter and murder victim (b. 1968)
- 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (b. 1959)
- 2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
- 2006 – Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Nijiro Tukuda, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
[change] Events
- 1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
- 1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire.
- 1872 – The Royal Mint (where money is made) opens in Melbourne.
- 1897 – Carl Elsener patents a small pen knife, now called the Swiss army knife.
- 1898 – The republic of the Philippines declares independence from Spain.
- 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 senenced 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!'
- 1990 – The parliament of Russia declares its sovereignty.
- 1991 – Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia.
- 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.
- 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.
[change] Observances
- Independence Day (the Philippines)
- Loving Day (United States)
- Russia Day
