June 12

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on June 12. From 1900 until now. June 12 is under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include Adriana Lima (1981), Anne Frank (1929) and George H W Bush (1924). Several movies were released around June 12 over the years, such as Full Metal Jacket in 1987 directed by Stanley Kubrick and The Man from Earth in 2007 directed by Richard Schenkman.
But much more happened on June 12 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Blessed Ternan, bishop, confessor [ GTZ: Scotland]
Blessed John of Sahagun, hermit, confessor
Roman Empire ? sixth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
Philippines ? Araw ng Kalayaan (Independence Day) 1898
Russian Federation ? Russia Day (Independence Day) 1990
United Kingdom ? Trooping the Colour (Military celebration of the monarch's official birthday held in London on the second Saturday of June)
Brazil ? Dia dos Namorados (Lover's Day; similar to St. Valentine's)
World Day Against Child Labor
Saints Basilides, Quirinus, Nabor and Nazarius (and Celsus), martyrs
Saint Pharaildis, virgin [GTZ: Artois]
Blessed Eskill, bishop, martyr [ GTZ: Scandinavia]
Saint Ursinus, bishop of Bourges, confessor (Translation day) [GTZ: Rouen]
Saint Leo III died 816
Saint Odulf of Oirschot died 865
Blessed Guido (died 1250)
Saints Nabor and Nazarius, martyrs [GTZ: St. Avold]
Blessed Onuphrius, monk
Saint Rufus, bishop, martyr [WTS (Bruges)]
Saint Cunera [HCC]
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Events

2019 Abha International Airport attack: A ballistic missile fired by Houthi forces strikes the arrivals hall at Abha International Airport in Saudi Arabia, injuring 26 people. (CNN)
2018 Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts, India–Pakistan relations: India states that four soldiers are killed after Pakistan fires shots at Kashmir. (ABC News)
2017 Earthquakes in 2017: An earthquake of 6.3 magnitude shakes the Aegean Sea, causing one death. Many houses were damaged in Plomari, Greece, and some collapsed. (AP)
2016 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): In the Third Battle of Fallujah, ISIL militants attack a military barracks east of Fallujah, killing more than 50 government soldiers and militia members. At least 12 militants were also killed in the assault. (Al Jazeera)
2015 Boko Haram insurgency: Boko Haram militants raid five different villages around Maiduguri, Nigeria killing 37 people. (Reuters)
2014 Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal): The United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the rapid progress of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant offensive towards Baghdad. (SBS)Iraqi Kurds take over control of the city of Kirkuk as the army flees. (BBC)The Parliament of Iraq postpones a vote on Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's call for a state of emergency due to a lack of quorum. (BBC)
2013 Syrian Civil War:: United Nations peacekeepers from Austria start withdrawing from the Golan Heights. (AP via the Idaho Statesman)
2012 Arab Spring:
2011 Arab Spring: Thousands of Syrians flee to Turkey as Syrian troops lay siege to Jisr ash-Shugur.
2010 The death toll from the Arkansas floods reaches 18. (AP via Google News)
2009 A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world.
2008 Representative Ron Paul of Texas withdraws his candidacy for President of the US.
2007 Nigerian author Chinua Achebe wins the Man Booker International Prize in honour of his career. (BBC)
2006 Fatah activists reportedly attack the Palestinian parliament building, setting fire to the fourth floor and riddling the building with gunfire. (AP), (VoA)
2005 Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, deliveres a Commencement addresses in Stanford University. (Stanford University)
2004 A meteorite plunges into a family's living room in the Auckland, New Zealand, suburb of Ellerslie on Saturday afternoon. No one is hurt. Weighing 1.3 kilograms (2.9 pounds), it is the ninth ever meteorite to be found in the country, and the first to hit a home. (TVNZ) (Stuff) (Reuters)
2003 Attorney General of Massachusetts Thomas Reilly formally accuses college student Luke Thompson of creating a fake airline, Mainline Airways, and selling bogus tickets.
2001 Robert Edward Dyer is sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for attempting to extort money from a British supermarket chain through a letter bomb campaign.
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.
1999 Texas Governor George W. Bush announces his intention to seek the Republican Party's nomination for President of the United States.
1998 A jury in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, convicts 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding 7 others at Pearl High School.
1997 1st ever baseball inter-league game SF Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3
1996 3 Philadelphia Federal Court judges overturn US indecency ban on internet
1994 48th Tony Awards: Angels in America: Perestroika and Passion win
1993 Three Little Pigs by Green Jelly hits #17
1992 Batman Returns is released in USA
1991 45th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1
1990 Egypt (500-1 longshot) ties favorite Netherlands 1-1 in World Cup game
1989 Doctor Doctor, TV Comedy starring Matt Frewer, debuts on CBS-TV
1988 6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper
1987 During a visit to Berlin, Germany, U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1986 P W Botha declares South African national emergency.
1983 29th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1982 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park, New York City
1981 Raiders Of The Lost Ark starring Harrison Ford premieres
1980 Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
1979 Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Association in Boston
1978 US House of Representatives allows live radio coverage
1977 Pippin closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1944 performances
1976 Yes, Yes, Yes by Bill Cosby hits #46
1973 Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
1972 George P. Shultz begins term as 60th Treasury Secretary of the US.
1971 Tricia Nixon and Edward F Cox marry at White House.
1970 Pittsburgh Pirates' player Dock Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0.
1967 Israel wins 6 day war
1966 Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan
1965 Bajour closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 232 performances
1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa
1963 Cleopatra premieres in New York City
1962 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz
1961 An ailing Bill Veeck sells his interest in White Sox to Arthur Allyn
1960 KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begins
1959 San Francisco Giants' Mike McCormick no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 3-0 in five-inning game.
1958 Make Me Laugh, TV Game Show
1957 Stan Musial plays in 823rd game (new NL consecutive-game streak)
1955 Mr Peepers (TV Comedy) starring Wally Cox airs for last time on NBC
1954 Girl in Pink Tights closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 115 performances
1952 USSR declares peace treaty with Japan invalid
1950 2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die
1948 Hold It! closes at National Theater NYC after 46 performances
1945 US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
1944 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
1943 Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos
1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)
1940 World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
1939 43rd US Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Philadelphia Country Club
1938 June 18 ampndash The Roma and Sinti peoples in Germany and Austria are rounded up, beaten up and jailed.
1937 41st US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills, Michigan
1936 1st 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa)
1935 Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco (Bolivia vs. Paraguay)
1934 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Air Lines
1933 Financial and Economy World conference opens (66 countries)
1931 Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury
1930 34th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen Country Club - Minnesota
1928 New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples and 2 HRs to be White Sox 15-7
1926 58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2
1924 Rondout Heist: Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois the robbery is later found to have been an inside job.
1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City
1922 German Reich President Friedrich Ebert visits Munich
1920 Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago).
1919 Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education
1918 Grand Duke Michael of Russia is murdered, thereby becoming the first of the Romanovs to be murdered by the Bolsheviks.
1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family.
1916 30th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Louise Raymond (60 61)
1915 29th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Hazel Wightman (46 62 60)
1910 PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle
1909 Shine On, Harvest Moon by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1
1908 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC)
1907 Yanks commit 11 errors and lose 14-6 to Tigers
1903 Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city.
1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power.
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