About June 12
June 12, 2025 is the 163rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 202 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 250 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 12
- 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.
- 1798 –Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1939 –The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
- 1942 –Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
- 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 non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
- 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.
- 1978 –David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam” killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
- 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.
- 1991 –Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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