Independence
day
Philippines
UN
Day
WorldDay
Against Child Labour
Events
of the day
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.
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.
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.
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.
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-Bédel 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.
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.
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.
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.
2009 – A disputed presidential election
in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in
Iran and around the world.
Holidays
and observances
Chaco
Armistice Day (Paraguay)
Christian Feast Day:
Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius
Eskil
John of Sahagún
Onuphrius
Pope Leo III
Ternan
June 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Dia dos Namorados (Brazil)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of the Philippines from Spain in 1898.
June 12 Commemoration (Lagos State)
Loving Day (United States)
Russia Day (Russia)
World Day Against Child Labour (International)
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