Milestones for June 12
1667 Paris, France
First recorded successful blood transfusion carried
out by Jean-Baptiste Denys, personal physician to Louis XIV, on a 15-year-old-boy,
using blood from a sheep; the boy didn't die, but the process is not perfected
until the 20th Century.
1898 Manila, Philippines
General Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the
Philippines revolutionary movement during the Spanish-American War, declares
the independence of his country from Spain; backed by the United States.
1939 Cooperstown, New York
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
dedicated in Cooperstown, where Abner Doubleday first set down the rules
of baseball on this day in 1839; Doubleday did not invent the game; first
inductees are Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter
Johnson.. Also on this day, in 1880, John Lee Richmond pitched baseball's
first perfect game on record, leading Worchester to a 1-0 win over Cleveland.
On this day in 1974, girls were first allowed to play Little League baseball.
On this day in 1981, major league baseball players began a 49 day strike
over the issue of free-agent compensation; the season did not resume until
August 10. [picture: Doubleday]
1967 Venus
USSR first to place a probe into the Venusian atmosphere,
when the Venera 4 spacecraft, launched June 12, 1967, released a 383-kilogram,
1 metre long probe, which descended under a parachute for 94 minutes, relaying
data until it stopped transmitting at an altitude of 25 km; sensor data indicated
an atmosphere of 90-95% carbon dioxide.
1979 Dover, England
Champion US cyclist Bryan Allen pedals Paul
MacCready's 23 metre long Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel in
2 hours, 49 minutes, the first person to fly across the Channel using
human power only.
1987 Berlin, Germany
US President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin Wall during
a visit to the western side of the Brandenburg Gate. Also on this day in
1990, the Parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
On this day in 1991, Boris Yeltsin is elected by popular vote to the newly
created position of Executive President of the USSR's Russian Republic; defeats
his orthodox Communist rivals in Russia's first free election.
1994 Los Angeles, California
Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ronald Goldman beaten and slashed to death outside her Brentwood condominium;
her estranged husband, former football star and actor O.J. Simpson will be
arrested for the crime and tried over a nine month period in 1995; he will
win acquittal on the criminal charge, but will be held liable in a civil suit
the following year.
Other Events
28 AD Estimated date for the dedication of the Mayan Temple 22 in Copan, Honduras.
746 AD St Leo III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
800 AD Moche culture collapses in about this year; flourished for 700 years in Northern Peru. In 1987, researchers unearth graves in adobe pyramids of human characters known as the Bird Priest, Warrior Priest, and Lord of Sipan.
816 AD Crusade leaders visit the Mount of Olives where they meet a hermit who urges them to assault Jerusalem.
1099 John Ball preaches to the rebels of the Peasants' Revolt, using as his text: 'When Adam delved and Eve span,/ Who was then the gentleman?'; Edward Rutherford describes the scene in his historical panoramic novel London.
1381 King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples; crowned King of Naples.
1442 College of St. Mary Magdalen founded at Oxford University.
1458 Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested
1523 Turkish adm Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap & plunder Naples
1534 Land guardians of Netherlands attacks Verdun
1552 King Edward VI accepts archbishop Cranmer's 42 Articles of the English church
1553 William of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon
1575 Battle at North Foreland; English fleet beats Dutch June 13
1653 England instals a municipal government in the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam; rename the town New York after the proprietor of the colony, the Duke of York, brother of King Charles.
1665 Michiel de Ruyter engages English fleet; destroys them in a two day battle
1667 French army under General Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith
1672 Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral
1673 Rye House plot against English king Charles II uncovered
1683 Pope Innocent XII succeeds Alexander VIII
1691 Act of Settlement gives British crown to Sophia, Electoress of Hanover, and her heirs; her son will become King George I in 1714, when Queen Anne died.
1701 Prussia & Russia sign secret treaty
1714 first human blood transfusion administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste.
1767 Virginia's colonial legislature adopts Declaration of Rights; first to adopt a Bill of Rights.
1776 US ship Unity captures English ship Margaretta in the first naval battle of the Revolutionary War; occurred off the coast of Maine, which was then part of Massachusetts.
1777 US Congress passes law providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
1787 George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver BC
1792 Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks married on this day in 1806 in Kentucky; parents of future President Abraham Lincoln; married 12 years.
1806 Napoleon Bonaparte and his French army invade Russia.
1812 Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra
1819 Hopkins Observatory dedicated in Williamstown
1838 first baseball game played in America
1838 Iowa Territory was organized; became a state eight years later.
1839 Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands
1840 George Abernethy becomes first governor of Oregon Country
1845 Gas mask patented by Lewis P. Haslett of Louisville, Kentucky
1849 Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
1852 Dr. Gerrit Parmele Judd becomes the first life insurance agent of record in Hawaii
1859 Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state
1861 Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart began his ride around the Union Army outside of Richmond, Virginia.
1862 Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley
1864 Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
1864 Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road Georgia; about 57 killed
1867 9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42Ā
1867 dual monarchy of the Austria-Hungary formed, with Franz Josef I as Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. The Union lasted about fifty years, until 1918.
1875 John Lee Richmond pitches first recorded major league perfect game, as Worcester beats Cleveland's Forest City1- 0
1880 Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
1885 Single tornado kills 119, injures 146, at New Richmond, Wisconsin
1892 Founding of Netherlands Society for Currency & Coin collecting
1892 Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India. Shock waves felt over an area size of Europe. Negligible death toll
1895 Ernst Kimball of Chicago opens the first 'cafeteria'. He soon moves his operation to the basement of the New York Life Insurance building until 1925.
1897 Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the revolutionary movement, declares independence of the Philippines during Spanish-American War.
1897 Swiss cutlery maker Carl Elsener patents his penknife, later known as the Swiss army knife.
1898 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
1898 Philippines gain independence from Spain. The US Navy under Commodore George Dewey captured Manila Bay in Spanish-American War
1900 Cuba agrees to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.
1903 Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to the Tigers
1907 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC)
1908 Shine On Harvest Moon by Ada Jones & Billy Murray hits #1
1909 PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle, Netherlands
1910 Father's Day first celebrated in Spokane, Washington; recognized in 1956 by a joint resolution of U.S. Congress.
1910 Lillian Russell retires from the stage and is married for the fourth time.
1912 Path Frres release early animated cartoon. The Dachshund
1913 29th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Hazel Wightman (4-6 6-2 6-0)
1915 30th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Louise Raymond (6-0 6-1)
1916 US Secret Service extends protection of President to his family as well.
1916 Tennis legend Bill Tilden's first appearance at US tennis championship
1917 First airplane bombing raid by an American unit in World War I's Western Front in France.
1919 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2
1919 Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education
1920 Farmer Labor Party organized in Chicago, Illinois.
1920 President Harding urges every young man to attend military training camp.
1920 Republicans nominate Warren G. Harding for president and Calvin Coolidge for vice president.
1921 German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich
1922 Bud McQuade becomes the champion US marbles shooter
1922 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC
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
1924 Pamplona, Ernest Hemingway and his friend Harold Loeb engage in a fierce argument, which Hemingway later depicted in The Sun Also Rises.
1925 58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2
1925 William DeHart Hubbard of US sets long jump record at 25' 10 3/4"
1926 Brazil quits the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany.
1928 34th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen CC Minn
1928 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples & 2 HRs to be White Sox 15-7
1930 Max Schmeling KOs Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for Heavyweight boxing title; New York City
1931 Gangster Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen indicted on 5,000 counts of perjury and violating Prohibition laws
1932 World Financial & Economy conference opens (66 countries)
1933 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Air Lines.
1934 Ella Fitzgerald records her first songs, Love and Kisses and I'll Chase the Blues Away, at age 17.
1935 Opening of first 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa)
1935 Chaco War ends between Bolivia & Paraguay [?]
1935 US Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record; took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words.
1935 Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco (Bolivia vs Paraguay)
1936 41st US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
1936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1394 Algoa
1936 First radio station with 500,000 watt power, Pittsburgh, Pa.
1937 43rd US Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Phila CC in Phila
1937 Josef Stalin continues purge, executing 8 Red Army leaders; dictator of Soviet Union
1939 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum dedicated in Cooperstown, NY; 100th anniversary of the day Abner Doubleday supposedly invented the sport.
1941 US bombers strike oil refineries of Ploesti, Rumania for the first time.
1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)
1942 Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos
1942 Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples
1942 Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
1943 British 12th airborne batallion/13th & 18th Hussars conquer Breville
1944 Churchill, Marshall and Arnold visit Montgomery's HQ in Chteau de Creully
1944 Germans began sending the first flying bombs or rockets (the V-1s and then the V-2) against Great Britain.
1944 The all-black U.S. 761st Tank Battalion is sent to Europe to serve as replacements under General Patton The 761st captures 30 major towns in Europe and receives 300 Purple Hearts. The battalion also helps liberate the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.
1944 US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
1944 US troops march into Carentan/Caumont Normandy
1945 Philippines National Day.
1946 Babe Didrikson the first American to win British Women's Amateur Golf Championship
1947 48th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 276 at Riviera CC in LA
1948 Two Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain; about 100 die
1948 80th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:28.2
1948 Ben Hogan wins his first U.S. Open golf classic.
1948 Bradman scores 138 in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
1948 Eddie Arcaro becomes first jockey to win the triple crown twice
1948 Hold It! closes at National Theater NYC after 46 performances
1948 Sleepy Hallow closes at St James Theater NYC after 12 performances
1948 William Tell Overture by Spike Jones peaks at #6
1950 420th kitten (record) born to cat named Dusty; Bonham, Texas
1950 Connie Mack named Honorary Manager of the All-Star Game
1952 USSR declares peace treaty with Japan invalid
1953 86th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard High Gun wins in 2:30.8
1954 Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock," is originally released
1954 Girl in Pink Tights closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 115 perfs
1954 Milwaukee Braves Jim Wilson no-hits Phillies 2-1
1954 Monitor (full weekend program) begins on NBC radio network
1955 Mr Peepers (TV Comedy) starring Wally Cox airs for last time on NBC
1956 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs)
1958 San Francisco Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies 3-0 in 5 inning game
1959 KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls SD (ABC) begins
1960 An ailing Bill Veeck sells his interest in White Sox to Arthur Allyn
1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1961 Three convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz
1961 Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo kills 20
1962 Laos prince Souvanna Phouma forms coalition govt
1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
1963 Civil rights leader Medgar Evers, field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi is shot to death outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi by teh Ku Klux Klan; an informant in the KKK, Delmar Dennis (1940-1996), later served as a key prosecution witness 27 years later as segregationist Byron De La Beckwith is named in a murder indictment by a bi-racial grand jury.
1963 Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison, premieres in New York. This movie cost $40 million to make and lasted over 4 hours; one of Hollywood's costliest failures, it was the most expensive film ever made at that time.
1963 Nelson Mandela and six others began life sentences in South Africa for supposed acts of sabotage.
1963 French government falls; Premier Laniel replaced by Radical-Socialist party leader Pierre Mendès-France
1964 Bajour closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 232 performances
1965 Beatles are awarded MBE
1965 Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies know as blue galaxies
1965 Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan
1965 I Had a BaIl closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 199 perfs
1965 Morio Shigematsu runs world record marathon (2:12:00)
1965 Rolling Stones release "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
1965 Sonny & Cher make their first TV appearance, on American Bandstand
1965 South Vietnam Gen Nguyen Cao Ky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier
1965 What Makes Sammy Run? closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 540 perfs
1966 Israel wins six day war.
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational
1967 Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio; 300 arrested.
1967 state laws which prohibited interracial marriages were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1967 US Supreme Court unanimously strikes down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
1967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
1967 Washington Senators beat Chicago White Sox 6-5 in 22 innings
1969 Pittsburgh Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres 2-0
1970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2216 Kerch
1971 At a hearing in front the of a U.S. House of Representatives committee, Air Force General John Lavalle defended his orders on engagement in Vietnam.
1971 Tricia Nixon and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden.
1971 Tricia Nixon and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden. The event was covered by all three major TV networks.
1972 Close finish at Trent Bridge; NZ Cricket need 479 to win; all out 440
1972 John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World", "Attica State", and "Luck of the Irish".
1972 Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies, age 63
1973 Billy Williams's 400th career HR
1973 Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer.
1975 Hank Aaron's 1st HR in Milwaukee since 1965
1975 Yes Yes Yes by Bill Cosby hits #46
1976 23rd LPGA Championship won by Chako Higuchi
1977 Bryan Allen peddled the Gossamer Albatross, a human-driven aircraft, across the English Channel (22 miles).
1977 Ground-breakng ceremonies for President Kennedy library.
1977 Pippin closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1944 performances
1978 Bryan Allen, age 26, flies man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight takes 2 hrs, 49 minutes.
1978 David Son of Sam Berkowitz sentenced to six life sentences, one for each murder.
1978 US House of Representatives allows live radio coverage
1979 Kevin St Onge throws a playing card a record 185'
1979 Milburn Stone, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies, age 75
1979 Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Assn meditation in Boston
1979 Sanista occupies parts of Managua
1979 Tigers fire manager Les Moss and hire Sparky Anderson
1980 3rd baseball strike starts
1980 Milburn Stone, the actor who played Doc Adams on Gunsmoke, died on this day in 1980 at 75.
1980 Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
1981 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators in Central Park, NYC.
1981 Larry Holmes TKOs Leon Spinks in 3 for WBC heavyweight boxing title
1981 Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti pres election
1981 Raiders Of The Lost Ark starring Harrison Ford premieres
1981 The 3rd professional baseball players strike starts.
1981 U.S. President Ronald Reagan makes headlines by greeting the only black member of his Cabinet, HUD secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr., with 'How are you, Mr. Mayor?' at a White House Reception
1982 29th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1982 Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands
1982 Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel perform in Rotterdam
1983 Comet C/1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs of Earth
1983 Norma Shearer, Academy Award-winner, dies, age 80
1983 The town of Xintan on the Yangtze was obliterated by a landslide that sent a 128-foot surge wave down the river. It had been evacuated a few days earlier.
1983 Winston Davis takes 7-51 in Cricket World Cup match v Australia
1985 P. W. Botha declares South African national emergency.
1985 The U.S. House of Representatives approved $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan contras.
1985 Wayne The Great One Gretsky was named winner of the NHL's Hart Trophy. The award is given to the league's Most Valuable Player.
1986 Central African Republic ex-emperor Jean-Bādel Bokassa sentenced to death
1986 Tony Desimone, combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies, age 66
1987 6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper
1987 President Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."
1987 U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbechev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1988 Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy
1988 Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson admist to using steroids.
1988 In runoff elections in France, President Francois Mitterrand's Socialist Party fell short of a majority in the National Assembly. But a right-wing coalition also failed to retain its legislative control.
1988 Mei-Chi Cheng wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1989 Boris Yeltsin led a vote at the Congress of Peoples Deputies on a "declaration of Sovereignty for Russia."
1989 Doctor Doctor, TV Comedy starring Matt Frewer debuts on CBS-TV
1989 Graceland opened the Elvis Presley Autoland Museum, which contains over 20 cars owned by Presley.
1989 The Supreme Court expanded the abilities of white males to challenge court-approved affirmative action plans, even years after they take effect.
1990 45th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat LA Lakers 4 games to 1
1990 A tornado sweeps across the southern Philippine village of Dipolog killing 30 and injuring 50
1990 Egypt (500-1 longshot) ties favorite Neth 1-1 in World Cup game
1990 In a speech to the Supreme Soviet legislature, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev eased his objection to a reunified Germany holding membership in NATO.
1990 Mark Steven Putnam becomes the first US FBI agent in history to be charged with a homicide-related offense
1990 NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs 19-8 at Wrigley Field; Cubs outfielder Doug Dazcenzo pitches a scoreless 9th inning
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 The Latin dance craze 'lambada' sweeps the United States
1990 Three inches of snow falls in Oregon's northern Cascade Mountains
1991 A fire rages out of control in San Francisco's China Basin destroying the 90-foot K-Thanga, an elegant motor-yacht being restored
1991 Batman Returns is released in USA
1991 Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation
1991 Chicago Bulls win their first NBA championship in a 4-1 series against the Los Angeles Lakers.
1991 Harry Reasoner, 68 and veteran CBS newsman, undergoes brain surgery to remove a blood clot after entering the hospital for pneumonia.
1991 Mt. Pinatubo in the Phillipines explodes with the biggest eruption in 600 years
1991 People of Leningrad vote to change the name of their city back to the pre-revolutionary name of St. Petersburg.
1991 The Chicago Bulls beats the Los Angeles Lakers for the National Basketball Association championship
1992 UN study released at the Earth Summit in Rio warns that the destruction of tropical forests increased by 50 percent during the past decade
1992 Nigeria Chief Moshood Abiola, a Yoruba, elected to the presidency; election annulled by ruling Hausa General Ibrahim Babangida
1992 President Bush, addressing the Earth Summit in Brazil, declares America's environmental record "second to none." In a letter to U.S. senators, Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin said the Soviet Union had shot down nine U.S. planes in the early 1950s and 60s
1993 48th Tony Awards, "Angels in America: Perestroika" won best play while "Passion" won best musical.
1993 Americans lead UN retaliatory assault on Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid in Mogadishu
1993 Judge Stephen Breyer, considered a likely candidate to the Supreme Court, reportedly failed to pay Social Security taxes for a domestic employee; passed over by President Clinton in favor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
1993 Three Little Pigs by Green Jelly hits #17
1994 Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady, rescued after being shot down over Bosnia, was treated to lunch at the White House and a hero's welcome at the Pentagon.
1994 Cab Calloway suffers a stroke at his home in White Plaines NY; never truly recovered and died November 18, 1994 at the age 86.
1994 Liselotte Neumann wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
1994 Pope John Paul II starts five day visit to Spain
1994 Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the charismatic Orthodox Jewish leader, died in New York at age 92.
1995 Ashley Taylor, the lone minor (16) at the Freeman Ranch, leaves the compound.
1995 For two days in a row the biggest surf in 25 years pounds the south and west shores of the Hawaiian islands The surf, with many sets at 12 feet, combined with an accentuated high tide (in conjunction with a full moon), results in hundreds of surf rescues and at least one death.
1995 US Supreme Court rules Congress limited by the same strict standards as states in offering special help to minorities; deals crippling blow to federal affirmative action programs.
1996 First ever baseball inter-league game SF Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3
1996 Chechnya's pro-Moscow government refuses to postpone elections for the local parliament as called for in the recent peace talks.
1996 Columbia's lower house of Congress votes to absolve Pres. Ernesto Samper of charges that his campaign was financed by drug traffickers.
1996 In Palestine, Eyad Sarraj smuggled out a message from a Gaza City jail that said he was being beaten and framed on drug charges.
1996 Spanish Judge Jose Jimenez Alfaro loses most of his right hand when a letter bomb explodes at his courthouse in Madrid; had sent policemen to jail for Spain's "dirty war" war on Basque rebels in the 1980s.
1996 Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan says he has sent a team to Cuba to study the country's health and education systems; praised the Castro regime for the virtual elimination of illiteracy.
1996 Election Commission of Bangladesh announces that the liberal Awami League of Hasina Wajed won 126 seats, the centrist National Party 103 seats, and the Jatiya Party 28.
1996 Three Federal Court judges in Philadelphia block a law against indecency on the Internet, saying the 1996 Communications Decency Act would infringe adults' free-speech rights.
1996 Republican choose Trent Lott of Mississippi as Senate majority leader after Bob Dole stepped down to run for president.
1997 A jury in Hattiesburg, Miss., convicted 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School.
1997 Dragon Systems unveils new computer speech-recognition program; uses a 30,000 word vocabulary and costs $695.
1997 US administration accord adopts a UN payment schedule; US to pay $819 million over 3 years conditional on a UN cut in spending, job reduction, and a lowering of US costs from 25% to 20%.
1997 Baseball begins interleague play, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.
1997 Scientists report that a gene may be responsible for advanced social skills in girls. The results were derived from a study of Turner's syndrome, related an abnormal x chromosome.
1997 Mary Robinson, President of Ireland, named the top human rights official for the United Nations.
1997 The Republicans removed riders and Clinton signed the emergency aid bill for the April Red River flood victims.
1997 US Treasury Dept. unveils new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant and to replace the old bill design in use since 1929.
1997 Timothy McVeigh sentenced to death for the Apr 19, 1995 bombing of the federal office building in Oklahoma.
1998 Torrential rains begin in China's Hunan province; at least 40 people dies, over 100,000 homes destroyed.
1998 Jean-Paul Guerlain (63), French perfumer, shot and his mansion plundered when some 12 armed and masked men invade his home.
1998 Guinea-Bissau - some 200 people drowned as they fled the country by boat.
1998 Nigeria security forces break up a planned mass protest organized to mark the 5-year anniversary of the annulment of the last presidential elections.
1998 India and Pakistan meet for talks on Kashmir; have little success as each blames the other for the insurgency.
1998 Leo Buscaglia dies at age 74; columnist, lecturer and social philosopher known as "Dr. Hug".
1998 Space shuttle Discovery returns to Earth, bringing home the last American to live aboard Mir and closing out three years of U.S.-Russian cooperation aboard the aging space station.
1998 Strikes at GM plants in Flint idle 13 assembly plants and dozens of parts operations and 50,900 workers in the US, Canada and Mexico.
1998 The G8 industrialized nations agree to halt all loans to India and Pakistan except those for humanitarian purposes.
1999 Akhmad Kadyrov, a Muslim cleric, appointed by Pres. Putin to head the administration in Chechnya.
1999 Scientists report that all 15,000 glaciers of the Himalayas are melting at an alarming rate and that torrential floods in Northern India could result over the next 40 years.
1999 NATO troops begin entering Kosovo; reach Pristina and confront Russian soldiers over control of the airport; 2 Serbs are killed and a German soldier wounded as peacekeepers move into Kosovo. 2 German journalists were killed near Stimlje
2000 Chile - worst rains in 20 years cause flooding in Santiago and a large portion of the central and southern parts of the country.
2000 At least 8 people were killed in Muslim-Christian fighting in Maluku, Indonesia .
2000 Rifaat Assad, the brother of Hafez Assad, claims himself as rightful heir of power in Syria. Syrian security forces ordered to arrest Rifaat if he entered the country.
2000 Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign agreement to end decades of border disputes.
2000 US Justice Dept. agrees to compensate Nixon estate $18 million for tapes and presidential papers seized in 1974.
2000 US Supreme Court Justices curb patient's rights and ruled that HMOs can't be sued over doctor's incentives.
0028 06 12 Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome
1442 06 12 King Alfonso V of Arag¢n occupies Naples
1523 06 12 Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested
1534 06 12 Turkish adm Chaireddin Barbarossa allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap & plunder Naples
1552 06 12 Land guardians of Netherlands attacks Verdun
1553 06 12 King Edward VI accept archbishop Cranmers 42 Articles
1575 06 12 William of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon
1653 06 12 -13] Battle at North Foreland: English fleet beats Dutch
1665 06 12 English rename New Amsterdam, NY, after Dutch pull out
1667 06 12 -13] Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet
1672 06 12 French army under Gen Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith
1673 06 12 Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral
1683 06 12 Rye House-plot against English king Charles II uncovered
1691 06 12 Pope Innocent XII succeeds Alexander VIII
1701 06 12 Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
1714 06 12 Prussia & Russia sign secret treaty
1775 06 12 First naval battle of Revolution-Unity (US) captures Margaretta (Br)
1776 06 12 Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
1787 06 12 Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
1792 06 12 George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver BC
1812 06 12 Napoleon invades Russia
1819 06 12 Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra
1838 06 12 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
1838 06 12 Iowa Territory forms
1839 06 12 First baseball game played in America
1840 06 12 Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands
1845 06 12 George Abernethy becomes first governor of Oregon Country
1849 06 12 Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett (Louisville Ky)
1859 06 12 Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
1861 06 12 Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state
1864 06 12 Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley
1864 06 12 Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road Georgia, about 57 dies in battle
1867 06 12 Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
1875 06 12 9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42¬
1880 06 12 First baseball perfect game-John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve
1880 06 12 John Lee Richmond pitches first major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest City 0
1885 06 12 Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
1889 06 12 Single tornado kills 119, injures 146 (New Richmond Wisc)
1892 06 12 Neth Society for Currency & Coin collecting forms
1897 06 12 Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll)
1898 06 12 Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control
1900 06 12 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
1903 06 12 Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
1907 06 12 Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to Tigers
1908 06 12 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC)
1909 06 12 Shine On, Harvest Moon by Ada Jones & Billy Murray hits #1
1910 06 12 PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle
1913 06 12 Dachshund by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
1915 06 12 29th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Hazel Wightman (46 62 60)
1916 06 12 30th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Louise Raymond (60 61)
1916 06 12 Tennis legend Bill Tilden's first appearance at US tennis championship
1917 06 12 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
1918 06 12 First airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
1919 06 12 Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education
1920 06 12 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2
1920 06 12 Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
1922 06 12 German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich
1922 06 12 St Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times
1922 06 12 St Louis gets record 10 hits in a row & beats Phillies 14-8
1923 06 12 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC
1925 06 12 William DeHart Hubbard of US, sets long jump record at 25' 10 3/4
1926 06 12 58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2
1926 06 12 Brazil leaves League of Nations
1928 06 12 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples & 2 HRs to be White Sox 15-7
1930 06 12 34th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen CC Minn
1930 06 12 Heavyweight Max Schmeling KOs Jack Sharkey in NYC
1930 06 12 Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for hw boxing title
1931 06 12 Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition & perjury
1933 06 12 Financial & Economy World conference opens (66 countries)
1934 06 12 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines
1935 06 12 Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco (Bolivia vs Paraguay)
1935 06 12 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15« hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words)
1936 06 12 First 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa)
1937 06 12 41st US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
1937 06 12 USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues
1939 06 12 43rd US Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Phila CC in Phila
1939 06 12 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
1942 06 12 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)
1942 06 12 Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples
1942 06 12 Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
1943 06 12 Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos
1944 06 12 First V-1 rocket assault on London
1944 06 12 British 12th airborne batallion/13th & 18th Hussars conquer
1944 06 12 British 12th battalion conquers Bréville
1944 06 12 Churchill/Marshall/Arnold visit Montgomery's HQ in Chteau de Creully
1944 06 12 US troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy
1945 06 12 US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
1947 06 12 Babe Didrikson is first American to win Brit Women's Amateur Golf Champ
1948 06 12 Hold It! closes at National Theater NYC after 46 performances
1948 06 12 Sleepy Hallow closes at St James Theater NYC after 12 performances
1948 06 12 William Tell Overture by Spike Jones peaks at #6
1948 06 12 48th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 276 at Riviera CC in LA
1948 06 12 80th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:28.2
1948 06 12 Bradman scores 138 in first Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
1950 06 12 2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die
1950 06 12 Connie Mack named Honorary Manager of the All-Star Game
1952 06 12 USSR declares peace treaty with Japan invalid
1954 06 12 Girl in Pink Tights closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 115 perfs
1954 06 12 86th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard High Gun wins in 2:30.8
1954 06 12 Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock, is originally released
1954 06 12 Milwaukee Braves Jim Wilson no-hits Phillies, 2-0
1955 06 12 Mr Peepers (TV Comedy) starring Wally Cox airs for last time on NBC
1955 06 12 Monitor (full weekend program) begins on NBC radio network
1957 06 12 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs)
1957 06 12 Stan Musial plays in 823rd game (new NL consecutive-game streak)
1958 06 12 Make Me Laugh, TV Game Show; last airs on ABC-TV, syndicated 1979
1959 06 12 SF Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game
1960 06 12 KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begins
1960 06 12 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1961 06 12 An ailing Bill Veeck sells his interest in White Sox to Arthur Allyn
1961 06 12 Dutch Lockheed Electricity Sirius accident at Cairo, kills 20
1962 06 12 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz
1962 06 12 Laos prince Souvanna Phouma forms coalition govt
1962 06 12 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
1963 06 12 Cleopatra premieres in NYC
1964 06 12 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa
1965 06 12 Bajour closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 232 performances
1965 06 12 I Had a BaIl closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 199 perfs
1965 06 12 What Makes Sammy Run? closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 540 perfs
1965 06 12 Beatles are awarded MBE
1965 06 12 Morio Shigematsu runs world record marathon (2:12:00)
1965 06 12 Rolling Stones release Satisfaction
1965 06 12 Sonny & Cher make their first TV appearance, American Bandstand
1965 06 12 South Vietnam Gen Nguyen Cao Ky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier
1965 06 12 Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies know as blue galaxies
1966 06 12 Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan
1966 06 12 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational
1967 06 12 Israel wins 6 day war
1967 06 12 Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)
1967 06 12 Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages
1967 06 12 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
1967 06 12 Wash Senators beat Chic White Sox, 6-5, in 22 innings
1968 06 12 What Makes Sammy Run? closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 540 perfs
1970 06 12 Pitts Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0
1971 06 12 Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
1972 06 12 John Lennon's political Sometime in NYC released including Woman is the Nigger of the World Attica State & Luck of the Irish
1973 06 12 Close finish at Trent Bridge, NZ Cricket need 479 to win, all out 440
1973 06 12 Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
1975 06 12 Billy Williams's 400th career HR
1975 06 12 Hank Aaron's first HR in Milwaukee since 1965
1976 06 12 Yes, Yes, Yes by Bill Cosby hits #46
1977 06 12 Pippin closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1944 performances
1977 06 12 23rd LPGA Championship won by Chako Higuchi
1977 06 12 Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library
1978 06 12 David Berkowitz sentenced in NY Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life
1978 06 12 US House of Representatives allows live radio coverage
1979 06 12 Kevin St Onge throws a playing card a record 185'
1979 06 12 Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Assn meditation in Boston
1979 06 12 Sanista occupies parts of Managua
1979 06 12 Tigers fire manager Les Moss, hiring Sparky Anderson
1979 06 12 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min
1980 06 12 Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
1981 06 12 Raiders Of The Lost Ark starring Harrison Ford premieres
1981 06 12 3rd baseball strike starts
1981 06 12 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
1981 06 12 Larry Holmes TKOs Leon Spinks in 3 for WBC heavyweight boxing title
1981 06 12 Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti pres election
1982 06 12 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC
1982 06 12 Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands
1982 06 12 Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel perform in Rotterdam
1983 06 12 29th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1983 06 12 Comet C/1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs of Earth
1983 06 12 Winston Davis takes 7-51 in Cricket World Cup match v Australia
1986 06 12 P W Botha declares South African national emergency
1987 06 12 Central Afr Rep ex-emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa sentenced to death
1988 06 12 6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper
1988 06 12 Andy Hampton is first American to win Round of Italy
1988 06 12 Mei-Chi Cheng wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1989 06 12 Doctor Doctor, TV Comedy starring Matt Frewer, debuts on CBS-TV
1989 06 12 Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids
1990 06 12 Egypt (500-1 longshot) ties favorite Neth 1-1 in World Cup game
1990 06 12 NY Yankee reliever Dave Righetti becomes 9th to record 200 saves
1990 06 12 Oakland A's Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases
1990 06 12 Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd place on the all-time list
1990 06 12 NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs 19-8 at Wrigley Field, Cubs outfielder Doug Dazcenzo pitched a scoreless 9th inning
1991 06 12 45th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1
1991 06 12 Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation
1991 06 12 Mount Pinatubo volcano on Philippines erupts
1992 06 12 Batman Returns is released in USA
1993 06 12 Three Little Pigs by Green Jelly hits #17
1994 06 12 -17] Pope John Paul II visits Spain
1994 06 12 48th Tony Awards: Angels in America: Perestroika & Passion win
1994 06 12 Cab Calloway suffered massive stroke at his home in White Plaines NY
1994 06 12 Liselotte Neumann wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
1996 06 12 3 Phila Fed Court judges overturn US indecency ban on internet
1996 06 12 Marge Schott gives up day-to-day operations because of her numerous insensitive comments about Adolf Hitler, working women & Asians
1997 06 12 First ever baseball inter-league game SF Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3
1997 06 12 MTV Movie Awards
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