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
- 1381 –Peasants’ Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
- 1418 –An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
- 1889 –78 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
- 1940 –World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
- 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.
- 1979 –Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
- 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.
Who were born on June 12?
- 1775 –Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851)
- 1777 –Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
- 1902 –Hendrik Elias, Flemish politician (d. 1973)
- 1923 –Monty Westmore, American make-up artist (d. 2007)
- 1932 –Mimi Coertse, South African soprano
- 1951 –Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (d. 2007)
- 1969 –Mathieu Schneider, American ice hockey player
- 1969 –Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (Omen, Bikini) (d. 2007)
- 1980 –Larry Foote, American football player
- 1990 –Kevin Wu, American comedian
Who died on June 12?
- 1567 –Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
- 1647 –Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian (b. 1575)
- 1904 –Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
- 1937 –Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
- 1980 –Masayoshi Ohira, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)
- 1982 –Ian McKay, British soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1953)
- 1982 –Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
- 1994 –Toma Bebić, Dalmatian musician, writer, actor, painter, poet (b. 1935)
- 1997 –Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
- 2005 –Scott Young, Canadian sportswriter, novelist, and journalist (b. 1918)
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