On this day in History - Jun 12

• 0816 - Pope Leo III dies.
• 1020 - Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury dies
• 1360 - Nuno Álvares Pereira was born. Portuguese warrior.
• 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: In England rebels arrive at Blackheath.
• 1418 - An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
• 1418 - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac dies (b. 1360). French military leader.
• 1442 - Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples.
• 1514 - Foi criada a diocese do Funchal
• 1519 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany was born (d. 1574)
• 1526 - Marc-Antoine de Muret was born. Composer.
• 1577 - Paul Guldin was born (d. 2 Nov 1643). Mathematicien. Gauldin Theorem: "If a plane figure is rotated about an axis in its plane then the volume of the solid body formed is equal to the product of the area with the distance travelled by the centre of gravity".
• 1653 - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard - lasted until June 13.
• 1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
• 1675 - Duke Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy dies (b. 1634)
• 1701 - The Act of Settlement, the law that continues to regulate the succession to the throne of the United Kingdom, was passed by Parliament.
• 1707 - Bahadur Shah I won the Mughal throne of India by defeating his brother 'Azam Shah at the Battle of Jajau.
• 1758 - French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg - James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
• 1775 - American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts.
• 1780 - José Xavier Mouzinho da Silveira was born (d. 1849). Portuguese politician.
• 1827 - Johanna Spyri was born (d. 1901). Swiss author.
• 1834 - Foi fundada a Associação Comercial de Lisboa.
• 1845 - August Wilhelm von Schlegel dies in Bünn (b. 8 Sep 1767). German scholar and poet.
• 1850 - Roberto Ívens was born. Portuguese explorer.
• 1855 - Ernst Eduard Wiltheiss was born (d. 7 Jul 1900). German mathematician who was a founder member of the German Mathematical Society .
• 1856 - José María Alfaro Zamora dies. President of Costa Rica (1842-1844 and 1846-1847)
• 1861 - William Attewell, was born (d. 1927). Nottinghamshire bowler.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
• 1875 - Sam De Grasse was born (d. 1953). Actor.
• 1875 - Publicado Zé Povinho, o personagem de Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro.
• 1888 - Zymunt Janiszewski was born in Warsow (d. 3 Jan 1920). Polish mathematician.
• 1889 - 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in Northern Ireland.
• 1890 - Egon Schiele was born (d. 1918). Painter and graphic artist.
• 1892 - Djuna Barnes was born (d. 1982). Author.
• 1896 - J.T. Hearne sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 first-class wickets.
• 1897 - Anthony Eden was born (d. 1977). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1898 - Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
• 1900 - Jean Frédéric Frenet dies (b. 7 Feb 1816). French mathematician.
• 1903 - Emmett Hardy was born (d. 1925). Jazz musician.
• 1905 - Ray Barbuti was born (d. 1988). American athlete.
• 1915 - Christopher Mayhew was born (d. 1997). British politician.
• 1915 - David Rockefeller was born. Banker.
• 1916 - Ivan Tors was born (d. 1983). Movie producer.
• 1916 - Irwin Allen was born (d. 1991). Movie producer.
• 1918 - Samuel Z. Arkoff was born (d. 2001). Movie producer.
• 1919 - Uta Hagen was born (d. 2004). Actress.
• 1920 - Dave Berg was born (d. 2002). Cartoonist for Mad Magazine.
• 1921 - (some sources say 1919) - Vera Ralston was born in Prague (d. 9 Feb 2003). Actress.
• 1921 - James Houston was born. Artist.
• 1921 - Fundação do Figueirense Futebol Clube (Brasil).
• 1921 - Luis García Berlanga was born in Valencia. Spanish film director.
• 1924 - George H. W. Bush was born. Vice president of the United States (1981–89) and 41st President of the United States (1989-1993).
• 1926 - Brazil quit the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany.
• 1928 - Vic Damone was born. Singer.
• 1929 - Anne Frank was born (d. 1945). Nazi victim known for her diary.
• 1929 - Brigid Brophy was born. British writer .
• 1930 - Otto Schenk was born. Actor and director.
• 1930 - Jim Nabors was born. Actor and musician.
• 1931 - Santiago Rusiñol dies. Spanish painter.
• 1931 - Charlie Parker equals record for the earliest date to reach 100 wickets. Tich Freeman reaches 100 wickets a day later.
• 1932 - Rona Jaffe was born. Novelist
• 1933 - Carmen Veronica was born in Recife. Brazilian actress.
• 1935 - Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words.
• 1935 - Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
• 1935 - Christoph Meckel was born. Writer
• 1939 - The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.
• 1940 - World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at St. Valery-en-Caux.
• 1941 - Chick Corea was born. Musician
• 1941 - Marv Albert was born. Sportscaster
• 1942 - Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
• 1945 - Pat Jennings was born. Football player
• 1945 - Boris Grigorievich Galerkin dies in Moscoe (b. 4 Mar 1871 in Polotsk, Belarus). Mathematician.
• 1946 - Harry Glasper was born. Writer.
• 1950 - João Freitas dies. Portuguese historian.
• 1954 - Canonización de Domingo Savio por el papa Pío XII.
• 1957 - Javed Miandad, was born. Great cricketer and coach, Pakistan national cricket team
• 1957 - Jimmy Dorsey dies (b. 1904). American musician.
• 1962 - Three escape from Alcatraz. three inmates convicted of bank robbery are missing from America's most notorious prison in California.
• 1962 - Julio Cesar Chavez was born. Mexican boxeur who was World Champion.
• 1962 - John Ireland dies (b. 1879). English composer.
• 1963 - Medgar Evers dies (b. 1925). American civil rights activist.
• 1963 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.
• 1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron de la Beckwith.
• 1964 - South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison.
• 1966 - Hermann Scherchen dies (b. 1891). German conductor.
• 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).
• 1972 - Ludwig von Bertalanffy dies. Austrian biologist.
• 1973 - Victor Ikpeba was born. Nigerian footballer.
• 1973 - Fyssas Panagiotis was born. Greek footballer.
• 1974 - Flávio da Conceição. Brazilian footballer.
• 1974 - Jason Mewes was born. Actor.
• 1974 - Hideki Matsui was born. Major League Baseball player.
• 1975 - España: se inaugura en Barcelona la Fundació Miró.
• 1975 - Gandhi found guilty of corruption : Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is barred from holding office for six years after she being found guilty of electoral corruption.
• 1978 - David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
• 1978 - Guo Moruo dies (b. 1892). Chinese writer.
• 1979 - Bryan Allen flies the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.
• 1980 - Milburn Stone dies. Actor
• 1980 - Masayoshi Ohira dies (b. 1910). Prime minister of Japan
• 1980 - Egon Sharpe Pearson dies (b. 11 Aug 1895). English mathematician.
• 1981 - Major League Baseball players begin a 49 day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation.
• 1981 - Adriana Lima was born. Brazilian supermodel
• 1982 - 750,000 people rally against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt are in attendance.
• 1982 - Marie Rambert dies. British ballet dancer and teacher.
• 1982 - Karl von Frisch dies (b. 1886). Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1983 - Norma Shearer dies (b. 1902). Canadian actress.
• 1985 - Portugal (represented by Mario Soares) and 8 hours later Spain sign treaty of adhesion to European Economic Comunity.
• 1985 - Marcela Paz (Esther Huneus de Claro) dies. Chilean writer.
• 1985 - Loo-Keng Hua dies in Tokyo (b. 12 Nov 1910 in Jintan, Jiangsu Province, China Mathematician.
• 1987 - The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
• 1987 - Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
• 1987 - Predator opens in theaters, directed by John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• 1988 - Rusty Wallace wins the last Nascar Winston Cup race at the Riverside International Raceway
• 1990 - The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty (see Russia Day).
• 1991 - Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
• 1991 - Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win their first National Basketball Association championship. The Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one.
• 1991 - A series of major explosions began inside Mount Pinatubo, a volcano in western Luzon, Philippines - its first eruption in 600 years.
• 1993 - The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the first annual of their live concert Weenie Roat with Terence Trent D'Arby, Dramarama, Gin Blossoms, The Lemonheads, The London Suede, The Posies, Rocket From the Crypt, Bettie Serveert, Stone Temple Pilots, The The and X.
• 1993 - Presidencial elections in Nigeria. Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola (popularly known and called M. K. O.), an international businessman and politician, who was the candidate of the Social Democratic Party overwhelmingly defeated rival Alhaji Bashir Tofa, candidate of the National Republican Convention. After most of the results were announced, the election was annulled by military president Ibrahim Babangida
• 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 a civil suit.
• 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson dies (b. 1959). American ex-wife of O. J. Simpson.
• 1994 - Ronald Goldman dies (b. 1969). American actor and mode.
• 1994 - At the Tony Awards, "Angels in America: Perestroika" won best play while "Passion" won best musical.
• 1995 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli dies (b. 1920). Italian pianist
• 1996 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
• 1996 - Ilona Ference dies at 78. Actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night).
• 1997 - Interleague play begins in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.
• 1997 - The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.
• 1997 - Mary Robinson, Pres. of Ireland, was named the top human rights official for the United Nations.
• 1998 - A jury in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, convicts 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School.
• 1999 - Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins - NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enter the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 2000 - Luis Figo scores one of the greatest goals of all time against England at the UEFA European Championship. Portugal won 3-2 after have being to lose 0-2
• 2000 - Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do Nascimento and a hostage.
• 2000 - Hafez-Al-Assad dies. King of Syria.
• 2002 - Bill Blass dies (b. 1922). Fashion designer.
• 2003 - Gregory Peck dies (b. 1916). American actor.
• 2003 - Itamar Assumpção dies (b. 13 Sep 1949). Brazilian musician, poet and composer.
• 2004 - The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the twelfth annual of their live concert Weenie Roast with Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, The Hives, Hoobastank, The Killers, Modest Mouse, New Found Glory, Story of the Year, The Strokes, Velvet Revolver, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Yellowcard.
• 2004 - A 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite struck a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
• 2004 - Portugal Euro 2004 begins with Open Cerimony in Dragão's Stadium (Porto). Portugal lost in front Greece (1-2). Portugal reached the final against Greece and lost again (0-1). Começa em Portugal o Campeonato Europeu de Futebol
• Roman Empire - sixth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
• Philippines - Araw ng Kalayaan (Independence Day) 1898
• Russian Federation - Russia Day (Independence Day) 1990
• United Kingdom - Trooping the Colour (Military celebration of the monarch's official birthday held in London on the second Saturday of June)
• Brazil - Dia dos Namorados
• World Day Against Child Labor.