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 163rd day of the year 2019 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, 2019 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,560,297,600 seconds 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 ‘hectahexacontatrigon’ day.
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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 227 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 2,364 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 12 Historical Events
- 1381 –Peasants’ Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
- 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.
- 1899 –New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
- 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.
- 1964 –Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
- 1978 –David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam” killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
- 1987 –Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
- 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.
Who were born on June 12?
- 1577 –Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
- 1851 –Sir Oliver Lodge, English physicist and writer (d. 1940)
- 1897 –Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
- 1908 –Otto Skorzeny, WWII German SS commando (d. 1975)
- 1916 –Raul Hector Castro, American politician
- 1921 –James Archibald Houston, Canadian artist (d. 2005)
- 1930 –Jim Nabors, American actor
- 1932 –Mimi Coertse, South African soprano
- 1951 –Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (d. 2007)
- 1965 –Filip Topol, Czech musician and writer
Who died on June 12?
- 1020 –Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1758 –Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
- 1904 –Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
- 1963 –Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
- 1980 –Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
- 1983 –Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)
- 1994 –Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (b. 1949)
- 1997 –Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
- 2003 –Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
- 2006 –Anna Lee Aldred, American first licenced female jockey (b. 1921)
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