What are the important events that happened on June 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 12: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 12 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 30, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 477,264 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexacontatetragon’ day.
Gemini is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,191 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 12 Historical Events
- 1653 –First Anglo-Dutch War: the Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
- 1758 –French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe’s attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
- 1899 –New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
- 1939 –The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
- 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.
- 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 –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.
- 1997 –Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
Who were born on June 12?
- 1890 –Egon Schiele, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
- 1892 –Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)
- 1929 –Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani scholar, writer, and Urdu linguist
- 1941 –Chick Corea, American musician
- 1965 –Filip Topol, Czech musician and writer
- 1970 –Rick Hoffman, American actor
- 1974 –Kerry Kittles, American basketball player
- 1978 –DJ Qualls, American actor
- 1979 –Earl Watson, American basketball player
- 1988 –Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
Who died on June 12?
- 1435 –John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
- 1772 –Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
- 1778 –Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716)
- 1816 –Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
- 1912 –Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822)
- 1937 –Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
- 1966 –Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (b. 1891)
- 1978 –Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (b. 1892)
- 1980 –Billy Butlin, Founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (b. 1899)
- 2008 –Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (b. 1932)
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