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Events on the 12th of June in history

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12 Jun 0816 St Leo III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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12 Jun 1381 Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
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12 Jun 1418 An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
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12 Jun 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.
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12 Jun 1523 Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested
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12 Jun 1534 Turkish Admiral Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap and plunder Naples
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12 Jun 1550 The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
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12 Jun 1552 Land guardians of the Netherlands attacks Verdun
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12 Jun 1553 King Edward VI accept Archbishop Cranmers "42 Articles"
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12 Jun 1560 Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
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12 Jun 1575 William of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon
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12 Jun 1653 First Anglo-Dutch War: the Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
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12 Jun 1665 England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
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12 Jun 1665 English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out
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12 Jun 1672 French army under General Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith
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12 Jun 1683 Rye House-plot against English King Charles II uncovered
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12 Jun 1691 Pope Innocent XII succeeds Alexander VIII
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12 Jun 1701 Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
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12 Jun 1714 Prussia and Russia sign secret treaty
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12 Jun 1758 French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
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12 Jun 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.
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12 Jun 1775 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (Am) captures Margaretta (Br)
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12 Jun 1776 The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
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12 Jun 1776 Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
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12 Jun 1787 Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
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12 Jun 1792 George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, BC
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12 Jun 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
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12 Jun 1812 Napoleon invades Russia
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12 Jun 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins
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12 Jun 1819 Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra
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12 Jun 1838 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Massachusetts
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12 Jun 1838 Iowa Territory forms
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12 Jun 1838 Territory of Iowa organized
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12 Jun 1839 1st baseball game played in America
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12 Jun 1840 Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands
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12 Jun 1845 George Abernethy becomes 1st governor of Oregon Country
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12 Jun 1849 Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky
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12 Jun 1859 Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
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12 Jun 1860 The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
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12 Jun 1861 Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state
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12 Jun 1864 Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley
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12 Jun 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.
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12 Jun 1867 Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
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12 Jun 1880 1st baseball perfect game-John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleveland
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12 Jun 1885 Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
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12 Jun 1889 Eighty are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
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12 Jun 1889 Single tornado kills 119, injures 146 (New Richmond Wisc)
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12 Jun 1892 Netherlands Society for Currency and Coin collecting forms
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12 Jun 1897 Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll)
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12 Jun 1897 Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India. Shock
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12 Jun 1898 Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
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12 Jun 1898 Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control
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12 Jun 1899 New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
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12 Jun 1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
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12 Jun 1903 Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
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12 Jun 1907 Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to the Tigers
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12 Jun 1908 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC)
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12 Jun 1909 "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1
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12 Jun 1910 PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle
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12 Jun 1913 "Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
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12 Jun 1915 29th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Hazel Wightman (46 62 60)
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12 Jun 1916 30th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Louise Raymond (60 61)
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12 Jun 1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
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12 Jun 1918 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
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12 Jun 1919 Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education
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12 Jun 1920 Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
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12 Jun 1922 German Reich President Friedrich Ebert visits Munich
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12 Jun 1922 St. Louis gets record 10 hits in a row and beats Phillies 14-8
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12 Jun 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.
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12 Jun 1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City
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12 Jun 1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended
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12 Jun 1925 William DeHart Hubbard of US, sets long jump record at 25' 10 3/4"
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12 Jun 1926 58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2
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12 Jun 1926 Brazil leaves League of Nations
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12 Jun 1928 New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples and 2 HRs to be White Sox 15-7
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12 Jun 1930 34th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen Country Club - Minnesota
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12 Jun 1930 Heavyweight Max Schmeling KOs Jack Sharkey in New York City
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12 Jun 1930 Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for hw boxing title
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12 Jun 1931 Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury
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12 Jun 1933 Financial and Economy World conference opens (66 countries)
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12 Jun 1934 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Air Lines
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12 Jun 1934 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up
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12 Jun 1935 Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco (Bolivia vs. Paraguay)
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12 Jun 1935 Chaco War ends between Bolivia & Paraguay [?]
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12 Jun 1936 1st 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa)
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12 Jun 1936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1394 Algoa
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12 Jun 1937 41st US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills, Michigan
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12 Jun 1937 USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued
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12 Jun 1939 43rd US Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Philadelphia Country Club
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12 Jun 1939 Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
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12 Jun 1939 The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
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12 Jun 1940 World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
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12 Jun 1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)
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12 Jun 1942 Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples
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12 Jun 1942 Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
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12 Jun 1942 Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
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12 Jun 1943 Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos
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12 Jun 1943 Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
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12 Jun 1944 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
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12 Jun 1944 British 12th airborne batallion / 13th and 18th Hussars conquer
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12 Jun 1944 US troop march into Carentan / Caumont, Normandy
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12 Jun 1944 American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.
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12 Jun 1945 US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
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12 Jun 1947 Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Br Women's Amateur Golf Champ
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12 Jun 1948 "Hold It!" closes at National Theater NYC after 46 performances
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12 Jun 1948 "Sleepy Hallow" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 12 performances
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12 Jun 1948 "William Tell Overture" by Spike Jones peaks at #6
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12 Jun 1948 48th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 276 at Riviera Country Club - Los Angeles
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12 Jun 1948 80th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:28.2
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12 Jun 1948 Eddie Arcaro becomes 1st jockey to win the triple crown twice
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12 Jun 1950 2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die
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12 Jun 1950 Connie Mack named Honorary Manager of the All-Star Game
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12 Jun 1952 USSR declares peace treaty with Japan invalid
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12 Jun 1952 420th kitten (record) born to cat named Dusty, Bonham, TX
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12 Jun 1954 "Girl in Pink Tights" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 115 performances
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12 Jun 1954 86th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard High Gun wins in 2:30.8
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12 Jun 1954 Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
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12 Jun 1954 Milwaukee Braves Jim Wilson no-hits Phillies, 2-0
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12 Jun 1955 "Mr Peepers" (TV Comedy) starring Wally Cox airs for last time on NBC
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12 Jun 1955 Monitor (full weekend program) begins on NBC radio network
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12 Jun 1957 Stan Musial plays in 823rd game (new NL consecutive-game streak)
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12 Jun 1957 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs)
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12 Jun 1958 "Make Me Laugh, " TV Game Show; last airs on ABC-TV, syndicated 1979
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12 Jun 1959 San Francisco Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game
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12 Jun 1960 KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begins
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12 Jun 1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
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12 Jun 1961 An ailing Bill Veeck sells his interest in White Sox to Arthur Allyn
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12 Jun 1961 Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20
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12 Jun 1962 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz
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12 Jun 1962 Laos Prince Souvanna Phouma forms coalition government
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12 Jun 1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
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12 Jun 1963 "Cleopatra" premieres in New York City
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12 Jun 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.
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12 Jun 1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa
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12 Jun 1964 Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
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12 Jun 1964 South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment
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12 Jun 1965 "Bajour" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 232 performances
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12 Jun 1965 "I Had a BaIl" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 199 performances
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12 Jun 1965 Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies know as blue galaxies
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12 Jun 1965 Morio Shigematsu runs world record marathon (2:12:00)
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12 Jun 1965 Sonny and Cher make their 1st TV appearance, "American Bandstand"
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12 Jun 1965 South Vietnam General Nguyen Cao Ky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as Premier
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12 Jun 1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
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12 Jun 1965 The Beatles are awarded the MBE
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12 Jun 1966 Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan
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12 Jun 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational
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12 Jun 1967 Washingston Senators beat Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 22 innings
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12 Jun 1967 The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
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12 Jun 1967 Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).
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12 Jun 1967 Israel wins 6 day war
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12 Jun 1967 Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)
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12 Jun 1967 Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages
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12 Jun 1967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
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12 Jun 1970 Pittsburgh Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0
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12 Jun 1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2216 Kerch
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12 Jun 1971 Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
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12 Jun 1972 The fast food restaurant chain Popeyes is founded in Arabi, Louisiana.
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12 Jun 1972 John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish"
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12 Jun 1973 Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
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12 Jun 1976 "Yes, Yes, Yes" by Bill Cosby hits #46
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12 Jun 1977 "Pippin" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1944 performances
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12 Jun 1977 23rd LPGA Championship won by Chako Higuchi
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12 Jun 1977 Ground-breaking ceremonies for President Kennedy library
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12 Jun 1978 David Berkowitz sentenced in New York Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life
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12 Jun 1978 US House of Representatives allows live radio coverage
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12 Jun 1978 David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
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12 Jun 1979 Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Association in Boston
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12 Jun 1979 Sanista occupies parts of Managua
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12 Jun 1979 Tigers fire manager Les Moss, hiring Sparky Anderson
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12 Jun 1979 Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
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12 Jun 1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min
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12 Jun 1979 Kevin St Onge throws a playing card a record 185'
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12 Jun 1980 Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
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12 Jun 1981 "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" starring Harrison Ford premieres
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12 Jun 1981 3rd baseball strike starts
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12 Jun 1981 Larry Holmes TKOs Leon Spinks in 3 for WBC heavyweight boxing title
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12 Jun 1981 Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti Presidential election
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12 Jun 1981 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
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12 Jun 1982 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park, New York City
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12 Jun 1982 Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands
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12 Jun 1982 Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel perform in Rotterdam
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12 Jun 1983 29th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
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12 Jun 1983 Comet C / 1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs of Earth
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12 Jun 1986 P W Botha declares South African national emergency
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12 Jun 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.
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12 Jun 1987 Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
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12 Jun 1988 6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper
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12 Jun 1988 Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy
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12 Jun 1988 Mei-Chi Cheng wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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12 Jun 1989 "Doctor Doctor, " TV Comedy starring Matt Frewer, debuts on CBS-TV
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12 Jun 1989 Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids
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12 Jun 1990 Egypt (500-1 longshot) ties favorite Netherlands 1-1 in World Cup game
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12 Jun 1990 New York Mets beat Chicago Cubs 19-8 at Wrigley Field, Cubs outfielder Doug Dazcenzo pitched a scoreless 9th inning
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12 Jun 1990 New York Yankee reliever Dave Righetti becomes 9th to record 200 saves
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12 Jun 1990 Oakland Athletics Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases
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12 Jun 1990 Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd place on the all-time list
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12 Jun 1990 Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
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12 Jun 1991 45th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1
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12 Jun 1991 Boris Yelstin elected President of Russian Federation
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12 Jun 1991 Mount Pinatubo volcano on Philippines erupts
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12 Jun 1991 Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
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12 Jun 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.
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12 Jun 1992 "Batman Returns" is released in USA
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12 Jun 1993 "Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly hits #17
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12 Jun 1993 An election takes place in Nigeria which and is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida.
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12 Jun 1994 48th Tony Awards: Angels in America: Perestroika and Passion win
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12 Jun 1994 Cab Calloway suffered massive stroke at his home in White Plaines, New York
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12 Jun 1994 Liselotte Neumann wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
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12 Jun 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.
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12 Jun 1994 The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
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12 Jun 1996 3 Philadelphia Federal Court judges overturn US indecency ban on internet
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12 Jun 1996 Marge Schott gives up day-to-day operations because of her numerous insensitive comments about Adolf Hitler, working women and Asians
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12 Jun 1996 In Philadelphia, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
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12 Jun 1997 1st ever baseball inter-league game SF Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3
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12 Jun 1997 MTV Movie Awards
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12 Jun 1997 Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
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12 Jun 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.
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12 Jun 2009 A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world.
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