June
12
Independence
Day
Philippines : June 12 1898
June
12 : World Day Against Child Labour
The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the World
Day Against Child Labour in 2002 to focus attention on the global
extent of child labour and the action and efforts needed to
eliminate it. Each year on 12 June, the World Day brings together
governments, employers and workers organizations, civil society,
as well as millions of people from around the world to highlight
the plight of child labourers and what can be done to help them.
The ILO’s
adoption of Convention No. 182 in 1999 consolidated the global
consensus on child labour elimination. Millions of child labourers
have benefited from the Convention, but much remains to be done.
The latest figures estimated that 215 million children are trapped
in child labour, and 115 million of these children are in hazardous
work. The ILO’s member states have set the target for eliminating
the Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2016. To achieve this goal
requires a major scaling up of effort and commitment.
A future
without child labour is at last within reach. Significant progress
is being made worldwide in combating child labour. The new global
estimates of trends reinforce this message of hope. However,
a strong and sustained global movement is needed to provide
the extra push towards eliminating the scourge of child labour.
This is no time for complacency.
Events
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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