What happened on June 12? There are more than 268 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About June 12
June 12 is the 164th day of the year 2024. There are 202 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday. This day falls under the 24th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Dunning, Nebraska 68833 sunrise will occur at 06:03 AM and sunset will occur at 09:17 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Gemini. The modern birthstone for this month is Pearl while the mystical birthstone is Moonstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 231 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For June 12
- 1381Peasants’ Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
- 1418An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
- 1429Hundred 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.
- 1560Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
- 1653First Anglo-Dutch War: the Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
- 1665England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
- 1758French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe’s attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
- 1775American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer 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.
- 1776The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
- 1798Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
- 1860The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
- 1864American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
- 188978 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
- 1898Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines’ independence from Spain.
- 1899New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
- 1922At 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.
- 1939Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures’ Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
- 1939The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
- 1940World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
- 1942Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
- 1943Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Berezhany, western Ukraine. 1,180 Jews are led to the city’s old Jewish graveyard and shot.
- 1954Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1963Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
- 1964Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
- 1967The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
- 1967Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet’s atmosphere and successfully return data).
- 1978David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam” killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
- 1979Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
- 1987Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
- 1987The Central African Republic’s former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
- 1990Russia Day – the parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
- 19911991 Kokkadichcholai massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
- 1991Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
- 1993An election takes place in Nigeria which and is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida.
- 1994Nicole 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 wrongful death civil suit.
- 1994The Boeing 777, the world’s largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
- 1996In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
- 1997Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
- 1999Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- 2000Sandro 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.
- 2001Robert Edward Dyer is sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment for attempting to extort money from a British supermarket chain through a letter bomb campaign.
- 2009A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world.
Who Were Born On June 12?
- 1107Emperor Gaozong of China (d. 1187)
- 1519Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
- 1577Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
- 1771Patrick Gass, American sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition (d. 1870)
- 1775Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851)
- 1777Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
- 1795John Marston, Served in the Union Navy during the Civil War
- 1802Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist (d. 1876)
- 1806John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
- 1812Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
- 1819Charles Kingsley, English writer (d. 1875)
- 1827Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (d. 1901)
- 1841Watson Fothergill English Architect based in Nottingham (d. 1928)
- 1851Sir Oliver Lodge, English physicist and writer (d. 1940)
- 1858Harry Hamilton Johnston, British polymath (d. 1927)
- 1861William Attewell, English cricketer (d. 1927)
- 1864Frank Chapman, American ornithologist (d. 1945)
- 1875Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953)
- 1888Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
- 1890Egon Schiele, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
- 1892Apostolos Grozos, leader of the Communist Party of Greece (d. 1981)
- 1892Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)
- 1897Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
- 1899Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
- 1902Hendrik Elias, Flemish politician (d. 1973)
- 1903Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
- 1905Ray Barbuti, American athlete (d. 1988)
- 1906Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
- 1908Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian TV pioneer and president of the CBC (d. 1988)
- 1908Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (d. 2010)
- 1908Otto Skorzeny, WWII German SS commando (d. 1975)
- 1910Bill Naughton, English playwright (d. 1992)
- 1912Carl Iver Hovland, American psychologist (d. 1961)
- 1913Jean Victor Allard, Canadian army general (d. 1996)
- 1915Christopher Mayhew, British politician (d. 1997)
- 1915David Rockefeller, American banker
- 1916Irwin Allen, American film producer (d. 1991)
- 1916Raul Hector Castro, American politician
- 1918Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
- 1919Uta Hagen, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1920Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
- 1920Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1920Peter Jones, English actor (d. 2000)
- 1921Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)
- 1921James Archibald Houston, Canadian artist (d. 2005)
- 1921Luis García Berlanga, Spanish film director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
- 1923Monty Westmore, American make-up artist (d. 2007)
- 1924George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
- 1925Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese writer (d. 1975)
- 1926Jackie Pallo, English professional wrestler (d. 2006)
- 1928Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician
- 1928Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter
- 1928Vic Damone, American singer
- 1929Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
- 1929Brigid Brophy, British writer (d. 1995)
- 1929Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani scholar, writer, and Urdu linguist
- 1930Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
- 1930Innes Ireland, Scottish racing driver (d. 1993)
- 1930Jim Nabors, American actor
- 1932Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian athlete (d. 2002)
- 1932Mimi Coertse, South African soprano
- 1932Rona Jaffe, American novelist (d. 2005)
- 1933Eddie Adams, American photographer, won Pulitzer Prize (d. 2004)
- 1934John A. Alonzo, American cinematographer (d. 2001)
- 1937Antal Festetics, Austrian biologist
- 1937Klaus Basikow, German football player and manager
- 1937Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician
- 1938Tom Oliver, Australian actor
- 1939Frank McCloskey, American politician (d. 2003)
- 1941Chick Corea, American musician
- 1941Marv Albert, American sportscaster
- 1941Roy Harper, English musician
- 1942Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, Nobel laureate
- 1942Len Barry, American singer and musician (The Dovells)
- 1943Reg Presley, English singer/songwriter (The Troggs)
- 1945Pat Jennings, Northern Irish footballer
- 1946Michel Bergeron, NHL head coach
- 1948Hans Binder, Austrian racing driver
- 1948Herbert Meyer, German footballer
- 1949Jens Böhrnsen, German politician
- 1949John Wetton, English musician (Asia)
- 1949Marc Tardif, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1951Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007)
- 1951Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (d. 2007)
- 1951Bun E. Carlos, American musician (Cheap Trick)
- 1951Hans Niessl, Austrian politician
- 1952Pete Farndon, English musician (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)
- 1952Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy under George W. Bush
- 1953Allan Weiner, American radio station owner
- 1953David Thornton, American actor
- 1953Rocky Burnette, American Rockabilly musician
- 1954Neil Oatley, English engineer
- 1956Terry Alderman, Australian cricketer
- 1957Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer and coach
- 1957Timothy Busfield, American actor
- 1958Rebecca Holden, American actress and singer
- 1958Rory Sparrow, American basketball player
- 1959Jenilee Harrison, American actress
- 1959Jervis Johnson, Games Designer for Games Workshop, Nottingham
- 1959John Linnell, American musician (They Might Be Giants)
- 1959Scott Thompson, Canadian comedian (The Kids in the Hall)
- 1961Jim Goad, American author
- 1961Kira Roessler, American musician (Black Flag) and dialogue editor
- 1962John Enos III, American actor
- 1962Paul Clark, English musician (The Bolshoi)
- 1963Jerry Lynn, American professional wrestler
- 1963Johnny Weiss, American professional wrestler
- 1963Philippe Bugalski, French rally driver
- 1963Tim DeKay, American actor
- 1963Warwick Capper, Australian rules footballer
- 1964Derek Higgins, Irish racing driver
- 1964Kent Jones, American journalist (The Rachel Maddow Show)
- 1964Paula Marshall, American actress
- 1965Filip Topol, Czech musician and writer
- 1965Rob Collins, English keyboard player (Charlatans) (1996)
- 1965Vicky Vette, Norwegian-born adult film actress
- 1967Frances O'Connor, Australian actress
- 1967Icíar Bollaín, Spanish actress, director and writer
- 1968Bobby Sheehan, American musician (Blues Traveler) (d. 1999)
- 1968Scott Aldred, American baseball player
- 1969Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
- 1969Mathieu Schneider, American ice hockey player
- 1969Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (Omen, Bikini) (d. 2007)
- 1970Gordon Michael Woolvett, Canadian actor
- 1970Rick Hoffman, American actor
- 1971Mark Henry, American professional wrestler
- 1971Ryan Klesko, American baseball player
- 1972Bounty Killer, Jamaican deejay
- 1973Darryl White, Australian rules footballer
- 1973Jason Caffey, American basketball player
- 1973Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer
- 1974Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
- 1974Jason Mewes, American actor
- 1974Kerry Kittles, American basketball player
- 1975Bryan Alvarez, American professional wrestler
- 1975Michael Muhney, American actor
- 1976Antawn Jamison, American basketball player
- 1976Thomas Sørensen, Danish footballer
- 1977Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American blues-rock guitarist
- 1977Richard Ayoade, English actor and writer
- 1977Wade Redden, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978DJ Qualls, American actor
- 1979Dallas Clark, American football player
- 1979Diego Milito, Argentinian football player
- 1979Earl Watson, American basketball player
- 1979Robyn, Swedish musician
- 1979Wil Horneff, American actor
- 1980Larry Foote, American football player
- 1980Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby union player
- 1981Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel
- 1981Nora Tschirner, German television presenter
- 1982Ben Blackwell, American musician
- 1982Jason David, American football player
- 1982Loïc Duval, French racing driver
- 1983Alexander Pipa, German rugby player
- 1983Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
- 1983Christine Sinclair, Canadian footballer
- 1985Blake Ross, American software developer
- 1985Chris Young, American musician
- 1985Kendra Wilkinson, American television personality and glamour model
- 1985Sam Thaiday, Australian professional rugby league player
- 1986Carla Abellana, Filipina actress
- 1986Erik Ainge, American football player
- 1986Sergio Rodriguez, Spanish basketball player
- 1986Stanislava Komarova, Russian swimmer
- 1987Abbey Lee Kershaw, Australian Model
- 1987Antonio Barragán, Spanish footballer
- 1987Seyi Ajirotutu, American football player
- 1988Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
- 1990Kevin Wu, American comedian
- 1992Allie DiMeco, American actress and musician
- 2001John Bigelow IV, golf prodigy from North Philadelphia
Who Died On June 12?
- 816Pope Leo III (b. 750)
- 918Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians
- 1020Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1036Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo (b. 990)
- 1418Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
- 1435John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
- 1560Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
- 1560Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
- 1565Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)
- 1567Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
- 1647Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian (b. 1575)
- 1675Duke Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (b. 1634)
- 1734James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military commander (b. 1670)
- 1758Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
- 1772Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
- 1778Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716)
- 1816Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
- 1818Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1904Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
- 1912Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822)
- 1917Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (b. 1853)
- 1932Theo Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
- 1937Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
- 1957Jimmy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1904)
- 1962John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)
- 1963Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
- 1966Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (b. 1891)
- 1969Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (b. 1899)
- 1978Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (b. 1892)
- 1980Billy Butlin, Founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (b. 1899)
- 1980Masayoshi Ohira, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)
- 1980Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
- 1982Ian McKay, British soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1953)
- 1982Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
- 1983Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)
- 1989Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
- 1990Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1914)
- 1994Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (b. 1949)
- 1994Nicole Brown Simpson, American ex-wife of O.J. Simpson (b. 1959)
- 1994Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher Rebbe (b. 1902)
- 1994Ronald Goldman, American waiter (b. 1968)
- 1994Toma Bebić, Dalmatian musician, writer, actor, painter, poet (b. 1935)
- 1995Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
- 1997Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
- 2000P. L. Deshpande, Marathi writer (b. 1919)
- 2002Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922)
- 2003Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
- 2005Scott Young, Canadian sportswriter, novelist, and journalist (b. 1918)
- 2006Anna Lee Aldred, American first licenced female jockey (b. 1921)
- 2006György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
- 2006Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
- 2006Nijiro Tokuda, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
- 2007Don Herbert aka “Mr. Wizard”, American television host (b. 1917)
- 2008Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (b. 1932)
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