<< June 2011 >> Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 MMXI June 12 in recent years 2011 (Sunday) 2010 (Saturday) 2009 (Friday) 2008 (Thursday) 2007 (Tuesday) 2006 (Monday) 2005 (Sunday) 2004 (Saturday) 2003 (Thursday) 2002 (Wednesday) 2001 (Tuesday) 2000 (Monday) 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. Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links 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. 1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto. 1653 – First Anglo-Dutch War: the Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13. 1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City (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 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. 1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted. 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch. 1830 – Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch. 1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established. 1864 – American 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. 1889 – 78 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland. 1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain. 1899 – New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200. 1922 – At 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. 1935 – Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932. 1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor. 1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York. 1940 – World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux. 1942 – Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. 1943 – Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Berezhany, western Ukraine. 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot. 1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith. 1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa. 1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. 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 wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross. 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: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. 1990 – Russia Day – the parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty. 1991 – Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic. 1991 – 1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. 1993 – An election takes place in Nigeria which and is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida. 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 wrongful death civil suit. 1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight. 1996 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet. 1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London. 1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a 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 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries. 2009 – A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world. 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) 1775 – Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851) 1777 – Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837) 1802 – Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist (d. 1876) 1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869) 1812 – Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890) 1819 – Charles Kingsley, English writer (d. 1875) 1827 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (d. 1901) 1841 – Watson Fothergill English Architect based in Nottingham (d. 1928) 1851 – Sir Oliver Lodge, English physicist and writer (d. 1940) 1861 – William Attewell, English cricketer (d. 1927) 1864 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist (d. 1945) 1875 – Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953) 1888 – Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920) 1890 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918) 1892 – Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982) 1892 – Apostolos Grozos, leader of the Communist Party of Greece (d. 1981) 1897 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977) 1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986) 1902 – Hendrik Elias, Flemish politician (d. 1973) 1903 – Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925) 1905 – Ray Barbuti, American athlete (d. 1988) 1906 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977) 1908 – Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian TV pioneer and president of the CBC (d. 1988) 1908 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (d. 2010) 1908 – Otto Skorzeny, WWII German SS commando (d. 1975) 1910 – Bill Naughton, English playwright (d. 1992) 1912 – Carl Iver Hovland, American psychologist (d. 1961) 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) 1916 – Raul Hector Castro, American politician 1918 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001) 1919 – Uta Hagen, American actress (d. 2004) 1920 – Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002) 1920 – Peter Jones, English actor (d. 2000) 1920 – Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003) 1921 – Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007) 1921 – James Archibald Houston, Canadian artist (d. 2005) 1921 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish film director and screenwriter (d. 2010) 1923 – Monty Westmore, American make-up artist (d. 2007) 1924 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States 1926 – Jackie Pallo, English professional wrestler (d. 2006) 1928 – Vic Damone, American singer 1928 – Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician 1928 – Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter 1929 – Brigid Brophy, British writer (d. 1995) 1929 – Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945) 1929 – Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani scholar, writer, and Urdu linguist 1930 – Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976) 1930 – Jim Nabors, American actor 1930 – Innes Ireland, Scottish racing driver (d. 1993) 1932 – Mimi Coertse, South African soprano 1932 – Rona Jaffe, American novelist (d. 2005) 1932 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian athlete (d. 2002) 1933 – Eddie Adams, American photographer, won Pulitzer Prize (d. 2004) 1934 – John A. Alonzo, American cinematographer (d. 2001) 1937 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician 1937 – Klaus Basikow, German football player and manager 1937 – Antal Festetics, Austrian biologist 1938 – Tom Oliver, Australian actor 1939 – Frank McCloskey, American politician (d. 2003) 1941 – Marv Albert, American sportscaster 1941 – Chick Corea, American musician 1941 – Roy Harper, English musician 1942 – Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, Nobel laureate 1942 – Len Barry, American singer and musician (The Dovells) 1943 – Reg Presley, English singer/songwriter (The Troggs) 1945 – Pat Jennings, Northern Irish footballer 1946 – Michel Bergeron, NHL head coach 1948 – Hans Binder, Austrian racing driver 1948 – Herbert Meyer, German footballer 1949 – Jens Böhrnsen, German politician 1949 – Marc Tardif, Canadian ice hockey player 1949 – John Wetton, English musician (Asia) 1951 – Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007) 1951 – Bun E. Carlos, American musician (Cheap Trick) 1951 – Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (d. 2007) 1951 – Hans Niessl, Austrian politician 1952 – Pete Farndon, English musician (The Pretenders) (d. 1983) 1952 – Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy under George W. Bush 1953 – Allan Weiner, American radio station owner 1953 – Rocky Burnette, American Rockabilly musician 1953 – David Thornton, American actor 1954 – Neil Oatley, English engineer 1956 – Terry Alderman, Australian cricketer 1957 – Timothy Busfield, American actor 1957 – Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer and coach 1958 – Rebecca Holden, American actress and singer 1958 – Rory Sparrow, American basketball player 1959 – Jenilee Harrison, American actress 1959 – John Linnell, American musician (They Might Be Giants) 1959 – Scott Thompson, Canadian comedian (Kids in the Hall) 1959 – Jervis Johnson, Games Designer for Games Workshop, Nottingham 1961 – Jim Goad, American author 1961 – Kira Roessler, American musician (Black Flag) and dialogue editor 1962 – Paul Clark, English musician (The Bolshoi) 1962 – John Enos III, American actor 1963 – Warwick Capper, Australian rules footballer 1963 – Tim DeKay, American actor 1963 – Jerry Lynn, American professional wrestler 1963 – Johnny Weiss, American professional wrestler 1963 – Philippe Bugalski, French rally driver 1964 – Kent Jones, American journalist (The Rachel Maddow Show) 1964 – Paula Marshall, American actress 1964 – Derek Higgins, Irish racing driver 1965 – Rob Collins, English keyboard player (Charlatans) (1996) 1965 – Filip Topol, Czech musician and writer 1965 – Vicky Vette, Norwegian-born adult film actress 1967 – Frances O'Connor, Australian actress 1967 – Icíar Bollaín, Spanish actress, director and writer 1968 – Scott Aldred, American baseball player 1968 – Bobby Sheehan, American musician (Blues Traveler) (d. 1999) 1969 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (Omen, Bikini) (d. 2007) 1969 – Mathieu Schneider, American ice hockey player 1969 – Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician 1970 – Gordon Michael Woolvett, Canadian actor 1971 – Mark Henry, American professional wrestler 1971 – Ryan Klesko, American baseball player 1972 – Bounty Killer, Jamaican deejay 1973 – Jason Caffey, American basketball player 1973 – Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer 1973 – Darryl White, Australian rules footballer 1974 – Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player 1974 – Jason Mewes, American actor 1974 – Kerry Kittles, American basketball player 1975 – Michael Muhney, American actor 1975 – Bryan Alvarez, American professional wrestler 1976 – Thomas Sørensen, Danish footballer 1976 – Antawn Jamison, American basketball player 1977 – Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American blues-rock guitarist 1977 – Wade Redden, Canadian ice hockey player 1978 – DJ Qualls, American actor 1979 – Dallas Clark, American football player 1979 – Wil Horneff, American actor 1979 – Robyn, Swedish musician 1979 – Earl Watson, American basketball player 1979 – Diego Milito, Argentinian football player 1980 – Larry Foote, American football player 1980 – Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby union player 1980 – Carrie Davis, American Author 1981 – Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel 1981 – Nora Tschirner, German television presenter 1982 – Ben Blackwell, American musician 1982 – Jason David, American football player 1982 – Loïc Duval, French racing driver 1983 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby player 1983 – Alexander Pipa, German rugby player 1983 – Christine Sinclair, Canadian footballer 1985 – Blake Ross, American software developer 1985 – Kendra Wilkinson, American television personality and glamour model 1985 – Sam Thaiday, Australian professional rugby league player 1985 – Chris Young, American musician 1986 – Stanislava Komarova, Russian swimmer 1986 – Sergio Rodriguez, Spanish basketball player 1986 – Carla Abellana, Filipina actress 1986 – Erik Ainge, American football player 1987 – Seyi Ajirotutu, American football player 1988 – Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer 1990 – Kevin Wu, American comedian 1992 – Allie DiMeco,American musician (The Naked Brothers Band) 2001 – John Bigelow, IV, golf prodigy from North Philadelphia Deaths 816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750) 918 – Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians 1020 – Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury 1036 – Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo (b. 990) 1418 – Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360) 1435 – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408) 1560 – Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519) 1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506) 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 (b. 1575) 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) 1772 – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724) 1778 – Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716) 1816 – Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757) 1818 – Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia 1904 – Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836) 1912 – Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822) 1917 – Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (b. 1853) 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) 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 – Billy Butlin, Founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (b. 1899) 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) 1982 – Ian McKay, British soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1953) 1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902) 1989 – Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917) 1994 – Ronald Goldman, American waiter (b. 1968) 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American ex-wife of O.J. Simpson (b. 1959) 1994 – Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher Rebbe (b. 1902) 1994 – Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (b. 1949) 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) 2005 – Scott Young, Canadian sportswriter, novelist, and journalist (b. 1918) 2006 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923) 2006 – Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923) 2006 – Nijiro Tokuda, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895) 2006 – Anna Lee Aldred, American first licenced female jockey (b. 1921) 2007 – Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (b. 1917) 2008 – Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (b. 1932) Holidays and observances Chaco Armistice Day (Paraguay) Christian Feast Day Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius Eskil John of Sahagún Onuphrius Pope Leo III Ternan June 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Dia dos Namorados, Brazilian Valentine's Day. (Brazil) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Philippines from Spain in 1898. Loving Day, celebrates the legalization of interracial marriage. (United States) Russia Day (Russia) The sixth day of the Vestalia, in honor of Vesta (Roman Empire) World Day Against Child Labour (International) External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to: June 12 BBC: On This Day The New York Times: On This Day On This Day in Canada v · d · eMonths and days of the year January 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 February 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 March 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 April 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 June 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 August 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 September 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 October 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 November 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Related dates January 0 · February 30 · February 31 · March 0