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816 – Pope Leo III dies (b. 750)
910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.
950 – Emperor Reizei of Japan born (d. 1011)
1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis.
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.
1550 – The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
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.
1899 – Weegee born, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (d. 1968)
1912 – Frédéric Passy dies, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1822)
1915 – David Rockefeller born, American banker and businessman (d. 2017)
1916 – Raúl Héctor Castro born, Mexican-American politician and diplomat, 14th Governor of Arizona (d. 2015)
1924 – George H. W. Bush born, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States
1929 – Anne Frank born, German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust (d. 1945)
1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
1941 – Marv Albert born, American sportscaster
1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1963 – NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the Civil Rights Movement.
1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
1974 – Hideki Matsui born, Japanese baseball player
1974 – Jason Mewes born, American actor and producer
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 first democratically elected Boris Yeltsin as the President of Russia.
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle “Ron” Goldman are murdered outside Simpson’s home in Los Angeles. Her estranged husband, O.J. Simpson is later charged but acquitted by a jury of the murders.
2012 – Henry Hill dies, American mobster (b. 1943)
2016 – Forty-nine civilians are killed and 53 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida; the gunman, Omar Mateen, was killed in a gunfight with police.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_12
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