Notable Historical Events on June 12th
June 12th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
28 |
Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome |
1381 |
Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath. |
1418 |
An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians. |
1442 |
King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples |
1523 |
Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested |
1534 |
Turkish adm Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap & plunder Naples |
1552 |
Land guardians of Netherlands attack Verdun |
1553 |
King Edward VI accept archbishop Cranmer's "42 Articles" |
1560 |
Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto. |
1653 |
- 13] First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard/ Battle at North Foreland, English fleet beats the Dutch |
1665 |
New Amsterdam legally becomes British and renamed New York after English Duke of York |
1665 |
England installs a municipal government in New York City |
1667 |
-13] Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet |
1672 |
French army under Gen Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith |
1673 |
Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral |
1683 |
Rye House plot against English king Charles II uncovered |
1691 |
Pope Innocent XII succeeds Alexander VIII |
1701 |
Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover |
1714 |
Prussia & Russia sign secret treaty |
1772 |
Marion du Fresne is killed at Tacoury's Cove, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, by local Māori |
1775 |
1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (US) captures Margaretta (Br) |
1776 |
Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights |
1787 |
US Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old |
1792 |
George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver BC |
1819 |
Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra |
1830 |
Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch. |
1838 |
Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass |
1838 |
Iowa Territory forms |
1840 |
Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands |
1845 |
George Abernethy becomes 1st governor of Oregon Country |
1849 |
Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett (Louisville Ky) |
1859 |
Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered |
1860 |
The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established. |
1861 |
Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state |
1864 |
Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley |
1864 |
Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road Georgia, about 57 dies in battle |
1867 |
Austro-Hungarian Empire forms |
1875 |
9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42.25 |
1880 |
John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest City 0 |
1881 |
The USS Jeannette, under the command of George Washington De Long, is crushed by Arctic ice after 21 months of ice-bound drifting |
1885 |
Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France |
1889 |
88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland. |
1892 |
Netherlands Society for Currency & Coin collecting forms |
1896 |
J.T. Hearne sets a cricket record for the earliest date of taking 100 first-class wickets in a season. |
1897 |
Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (low mortality rate given size of earthquake, 1500 casualties) |
1898 |
Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control |
1898 |
Filipino revolutionary forces under General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the sovereignty and independence of the Philippine Islands from the colonial rule of Spain |
1899 |
New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 peoples and injures around 200. |
1900 |
In Germany, the Reichstag pass the second Navy Bill, which calls for doubling the German Navy within 20 years |
1901 |
In Cuba, the constitutional convention - knowing that the USA will not withdraw its troops until does so - adopts the Platt Amendment as part of its constitution |
1903 |
Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city |
1903 |
The Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music. |
1907 |
Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to Tigers |
1908 |
Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC) |
1909 |
"Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones & Billy Murray hits #1 |
1910 |
PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle |
1913 |
"Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released |
1915 |
29th US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beats Hazel Wightman (4-6 6-2 6-0) |
1916 |
30th US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beats Louise Raymond (6-0 6-1) |
1916 |
Tennis legend Bill Tilden's 1st appearance at US tennis championship |
1917 |
Secret Service extends protection of president to his family |
1918 |
1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France |
1919 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education |
1920 |
52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2 |
1920 |
Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago) |
1922 |
German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich |
1922 |
St Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times |
1922 |
St Louis gets record 10 hits in a row & beats Phillies 14-8 |
1923 |
Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC |
1925 |
William DeHart Hubbard of US, sets long jump record at 25' 10 3/4" |
1926 |
58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2 |
1926 |
Brazil leaves League of Nations |
1928 |
NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples & 2 HRs to be White Sox 15-7 |
1930 |
34th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen CC Minn |
1930 |
Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
1931 |
Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition & perjury |
1933 |
Financial & Economy World conference opens (66 countries) |
1934 |
Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines |
1935 |
Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco (Bolivia vs Paraguay) |
1935 |
Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15½ hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words) |
1936 |
1st 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa) |
1937 |
41st US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich |
1937 |
USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues |
1939 |
43rd US Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Phila CC in Phila |
1939 |
Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY |
1939 |
Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor. |
1942 |
Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam) |
1942 |
Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples |
1942 |
Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City |
1943 |
Himmler orders extermination of all Nazi ghettos in occupied Poland |
1944 |
1st V-1 rocket assault on London |
1944 |
British 12th airborne batallion and the 13th & 18th Hussars attack and capture Bréville |
1944 |
Churchill/Marshall/Arnold visit Montgomery's HQ in Chateau de Creully |
1944 |
US troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy |
1945 |
US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa |
1947 |
Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Brit Women's Amateur Golf Champ |
1948 |
"Hold It!" closes at National Theater NYC after 46 performances |
1948 |
The musical "Sleepy Hollow" closes at St James Theater NYC after 12 performances |
1948 |
"William Tell Overture" by Spike Jones peaks at #6 |
1948 |
48th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 276 at Riviera CC in LA |
1948 |
80th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:28.2 |
1948 |
Bradman scores 138 in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge |
1950 |
2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die |
1950 |
Connie Mack named Honorary Manager of the All-Star Game |
1952 |
USSR declares peace treaty with Japan invalid |
1954 |
"Girl in Pink Tights" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 115 perfs |
1954 |
86th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard High Gun wins in 2:30.8 |
1954 |
Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" is originally released |
1954 |
Milwaukee Braves Jim Wilson no-hits Phillies, 2-0 |
1955 |
"Mr Peepers" (TV Comedy) starring Wally Cox airs for last time on NBC |
1955 |
Monitor (full weekend program) begins on NBC radio network |
1957 |
Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs) |
1957 |
Stan Musial plays in 823rd game (new NL consecutive-game streak) |
1958 |
"Make Me Laugh" TV Game Show last airs on ABC-TV, syndicated 1979 |
1959 |
SF Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game |
1960 |
KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begins |
1960 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
1961 |
An ailing Bill Veeck sells his interest in White Sox to Arthur Allyn |
1961 |
Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20 |
1962 |
Laos prince Souvanna Phouma forms coalition government |
1962 |
USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m |
1963 |
"Cleopatra" premieres in NYC |
1964 |
Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa |
1965 |
"Bajour" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 232 performances |
1965 |
"I Had a BaIl" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 199 perfs |
1965 |
"What Makes Sammy Run?" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 540 perfs |
1965 |
Beatles are awarded MBE |
1965 |
Morio Shigematsu runs world record marathon (2:12:00) |
1965 |
Sonny & Cher make their 1st TV appearance in "American Bandstand" |
1965 |
South Vietnam Gen Nguyen Cao Ky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier |
1965 |
Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies know as blue galaxies |
1966 |
Dave Clark Five sets record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan |
1966 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational |
1967 |
Israel wins 6 day war |
1967 |
Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested) |
1967 |
US Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages |
1967 |
USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus |
1967 |
Washington Senators beat Chicago White Sox 6-5 in 22 innings |
1968 |
"What Makes Sammy Run?" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 540 perfs |
1970 |
Pitts Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0 |
1972 |
John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish" |
1973 |
Close finish at Trent Bridge, NZ Cricket need 479 to win, all out 440 |
1973 |
Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer |
1973 |
Coleraine bombings: six Protestant civilians were killed and 33 wounded by a Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb in Coleraine, County Londonderry |
1975 |
Billy Williams's 400th career HR |
1975 |
Hank Aaron's 1st HR in Milwaukee since 1965 |
1976 |
"Yes, Yes, Yes" by Bill Cosby hits #46 |
1977 |
"Pippin" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1944 performances |
1977 |
23rd LPGA Championship won by Chako Higuchi |
1977 |
Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library |
1978 |
David Berkowitz sentenced in NY Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life |
1978 |
US House of Representatives allows live radio coverage |
1979 |
Kevin St Onge throws a playing card a record 185' |
1979 |
Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Association meditation in Boston |
1979 |
Sanista occupies parts of Managua |
1979 |
Tigers fire manager Les Moss, hiring Sparky Anderson |
1979 |
Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min |
1980 |
Ronald Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests |
1981 |
"Raiders Of The Lost Ark" starring Harrison Ford premieres |
1981 |
3rd baseball strike starts |
1981 |
Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike |
1981 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Leon Spinks in 3 for WBC heavyweight boxing title |
1981 |
Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti pres election |
1982 |
750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC |
1982 |
Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands |
1982 |
Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel perform in Rotterdam |
1983 |
29th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
1983 |
Comet C/1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs of Earth |
1983 |
Winston Davis takes 7-51 in Cricket World Cup match v Australia |
1986 |
P W Botha declares South African national emergency |
1987 |
Central Afr Rep ex-emperor Jean-Bédell Bokassa sentenced to death |
1987 |
US President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall |
1988 |
6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper |
1988 |
Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy |
1988 |
Mei-Chi Cheng wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
1988 |
The Republic of Ireland beats England 1-0 at Euro88 thanks to a headed goal by Ray Houghton. This is Ireland's first competitive match at a major football tournament. |
1989 |
"Doctor Doctor," TV Comedy starring Matt Frewer, debuts on CBS-TV |
1989 |
Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids |
1990 |
Egypt (500-1 longshot) ties favorite Neth 1-1 in World Cup game |
1990 |
NY Yankee reliever Dave Righetti becomes 9th to record 200 saves |
1990 |
Oakland A's Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases |
1990 |
Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd place on the all-time list |
1990 |
NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs 19-8 at Wrigley Field, Cubs outfielder Doug Dazcenzo pitched a scoreless 9th inning |
1991 |
45th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1 |
1991 |
Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation |
1993 |
"Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly hits #17 |
1994 |
-17] Pope John Paul II visits Spain |
1994 |
48th Tony Awards: Angels in America: Perestroika & Passion win |
1994 |
Cab Calloway suffered massive stroke at his home in White Plaines NY |
1994 |
Liselotte Neumann wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic |
1996 |
3 Phila Fed Court judges overturn US indecency ban on internet |
1996 |
Marge Schott gives up day-to-day operations because of her numerous insensitive comments about Adolf Hitler, working women & Asians |
1997 |
1st ever baseball inter-league game SF Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3 |
1999 |
Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins - 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. |
2002 |
Los Angeles Lakers beat New Jersey Nets 4-0 in NBA finals MVP: Shaquille O'Neal, L.A. |
2002 |
36th CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards: Dixie Chicks, Martina McBride & Kenny Chesney wins |
2002 |
56th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat New Jersey Nets, 4 games to 0 |
2004 |
A 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries. |
2005 |
51st LPGA Championship won by Annika Sörenstam |
2007 |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his humanitarian work by President Putin |
2008 |
Ireland rejects the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform programme of the European Union. |
2009 |
Protests in Iran following the presidential election. |
2009 |
TSC: All television broadcasts in the United States switch from analog NTSC to digital ATSC transmission. |
2011 |
65th NBA Championship: Dallas Mavericks beat Miami Heat, 4 games to 2 |
2011 |
65th Tony Awards: The Book of Mormon & War Horse win |
2012 |
The chemical compound NOTT-202, which is capable of selectively absorbing carbon dioxide, is created |
2012 |
An Australian coroner's report rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of a baby in 1980 |
2012 |
The World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer |
2013 |
Russia passes a law banning gay propaganda |
2016 |
Creator Wins the Belmont Stakes |
2016 |
Fan violence mars England's draw with Russia at Euro 2016 |
2016 |
Russia fans charge at English inside Marseille stadium |
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