WillDekkard
06-17-2010, 03:42 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 12th
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* 1381 Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
* 1418 An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
* 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.
* 1830 Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
* 1860 The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
* 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.
* 1898 Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
* 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.
* 1935 Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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).
* 1978 David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
* 1979 Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
* 1987 The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bιdel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
* 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.
* 1991 Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 2004 A 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
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- June 12th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1381 Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
* 1418 An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
* 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.
* 1830 Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
* 1860 The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
* 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.
* 1898 Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
* 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.
* 1935 Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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).
* 1978 David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
* 1979 Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
* 1987 The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bιdel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
* 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.
* 1991 Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 2004 A 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
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