Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
66961June 11Holiday and observanceStudent Day (Honduras)
66962June 12Event1381 – Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
66963June 12Event1418 – An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
66964June 12Event1429 – 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.
66965June 12Event1550 – The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
66966June 12Event1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
66967June 12Event1653 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
66968June 12Event1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
66969June 12Event1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
66970June 12Event1775 – 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 captur
66971June 12Event1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
66972June 12Event1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
66973June 12Event1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
66974June 12Event1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
66975June 12Event1889 – Eighty are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
66976June 12Event1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
66977June 12Event1899 – New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
66978June 12Event1905 – The Servants of India Society was established in Pune, India by Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
66979June 12Event1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded: The Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers
66980June 12Event1935 – A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War
66981June 12Event1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
66982June 12Event1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
66983June 12Event1940 – World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
66984June 12Event1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
66985June 12Event1943 – Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
66986June 12Event1944 – American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.
66987June 12Event1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
66988June 12Event1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
66989June 12Event1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
66990June 12Event1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

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