About June 12
June 12, 2024 is the 164th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 202 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 231 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.
- 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.
- 1899 –New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1979 –Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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