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
- 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.
- 1776 –The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
- 1798 –Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
- 1889 –78 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
- 1898 –Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines’ independence from Spain.
- 1939 –The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
- 1942 –Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
- 1943 –Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Berezhany, western Ukraine. 1,180 Jews are led to the city’s old Jewish graveyard and shot.
- 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.
- 1964 –Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
- 1967 –The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
- 1967 –Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet’s atmosphere and successfully return data).
- 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 –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.
- 1991 –Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
- 1994 –The Boeing 777, the world’s largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
- 1997 –Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
- 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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