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
- 1418 –An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
- 1665 –England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
- 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.
- 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).
- 1990 –Russia Day – the parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
- 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 –The Boeing 777, the world’s largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
Who were born on June 12?
- 1851 –Sir Oliver Lodge, English physicist and writer (d. 1940)
- 1875 –Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953)
- 1920 –Peter Jones, English actor (d. 2000)
- 1928 –Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter
- 1962 –Paul Clark, English musician (The Bolshoi)
- 1967 –Frances O'Connor, Australian actress
- 1974 –Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
- 1975 –Michael Muhney, American actor
- 1981 –Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel
- 1985 –Sam Thaiday, Australian professional rugby league player
Who died on June 12?
- 816 –Pope Leo III (b. 750)
- 1778 –Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716)
- 1904 –Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
- 1912 –Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822)
- 1917 –Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (b. 1853)
- 1963 –Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
- 1994 –Ronald Goldman, American waiter (b. 1968)
- 1994 –Toma Bebić, Dalmatian musician, writer, actor, painter, poet (b. 1935)
- 1997 –Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
- 2006 –György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
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