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- 1381 Peasants' Revolt: In England rebels arrive at Blackheath.
- 1418 An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
- 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.
- 1560 Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
- 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.
- 1665 English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out
- 1775 The first naval battle of Revolution-Unity (Am) captures Margaretta (Br)
- 1776 Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
- 1787 Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
- 1792 Capt. George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, BC
- 1812 Napoleon Bonapart invades Russia
- 1830 Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers landed 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
- 1838 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
- 1838 Territory of Iowa organized
- 1845 George Abernethy becomes first governor of Oregon Country
- 1849 Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky
- 1859 Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
- 1859 The Comstock Lode is discovered near Virginia City, Nevada.
- 1860 The State Bank of the Russian Empire established.
- 1864 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.
- 1867 Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
- 1880 The first baseball perfect game is pitched by John Lee Richmond.
- 1885 At a murder trial in France, a roof collapses, killing 30 people.
- 1885 Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
- 1889 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
- 1889 Single tornado kills 119, injures 146 (New Richmond Wisc)
- 1896 J.T. Hearne sets a cricket record for the earliest date of taking 100 first-class wickets.
- 1897 In Assam. India a 8.7 earthquake caused caused the complete devastation of over 9,000 square miles and was felt over 1.75 million square miles. Over 1500 deaths
- 1897 Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India. Shock waves felt over an area size of Europe. Negligible death toll
- 1898 Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
- 1898 Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control
- 1898 The Philippines declare their independence from Spain.
- 1899 New Richmond Tornado: 8th deadliest tornado in U.S. history - killing 117 and injuring around 200 people.
- 1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
- 1901 Victorians trapped in surprise attack at Wilmansrust
- 1902 Australia: Women in the four Australian States without female suffrage achieved the right to vote in Commonwealth elections under Section 3 of the Commonwealth Franchise Act for an Uniform Federal Franchise. Specifically excluded from enrolling to vote were 'aboriginal native[s] of Australia Africa Asia or the Islands of the Pacific except New Zealand' unless covered under Section 41 of the Constitution of Australia.
- 1903 Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
- 1903 Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music.
- 1913 "The Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
- 1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
- 1918 The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
- 1920 Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
- 1922 In 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 and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
- 1922 St.Louis Browns pitcher Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth three consecutive times.
- 1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above the ground in NYC
- 1931 Al Capone is indicted for violating Prohibition laws.
- 1931 Charlie Parker equals cricket record for the earliest date to reach 100 wickets. Tich Freeman reaches 100 wickets a day later.
- 1934 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines
- 1935 Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay, fighting since 1932.
- 1937 USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued
- 1939 Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
- 1940 HMS CALYPSO, sunk Eastern Mediterranean, south of Crete by 1 torpedo from Italian submarine 'Bagnolini'.
- 1940 World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
- 1942 Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
- 1942 Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
- 1943 Holocaust: German Nazis liquidate Jewish Ghetto in Berezhany, western Ukraine. On Saturday morning, 1,180 Jews of Berezhany were led to face death at city's old Jewish graveyard, where they had been shot into a mass grave.
- 1944 First V-1 rocket reaches London.
- 1944 Piolet Off. Andrew C. Mynarski (Royal Cdn. Air Force) wins the Victoria Cross for service over France
- 1944 UK hist First V1 flying bombs hit London
- 1950 Visitor posting - June 12, 1950 Joanne Le Beau was born
- 1952 In British Columbia. W. A. C. Bennett 1900-1979 invited to form a Social Credit minority government after BC provincial election; start of 20 years of power for the Socreds.
- 1953 Visitor posting - June 12, 1953 - Elaine 'Frizz' Gray is born in Alabama
- 1957 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs)
- 1961 The DND buys 66 F-101 Voodoos in exchange for US control of Pinetree Line, plus a Mutual Air Program for purchase of 200 Canadian-built F-104 Starfighters.
- 1963 Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot dead 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.
- 1964 South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment
- 1965 The Beatles are awarded the MBE
- 1965 Visitor posting - John Neiland Jeanette (Pender ) got married on 12 June 1965
- 1967 Israel wins 6 day war
- 1967 Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)
- 1967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
- 1967 Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).
- 1971 Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
- 1976 Number one hit on UK music charts - Wurzels - Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)
- 1976 The Navy phased out the last C-117 (Douglas DC-3), perhaps the most famous transport plane of all time. The last C-117 was flown from Pensacola to Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, the boneyard for obsolete military aircraft
- 1977 Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library
- 1978 David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
- 1978 In Japan a 7.5 quake struck near the east coast of Honshu, Japan. The shock was centered about 909 kilometers east of Sendai
- 1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min
- 1980 Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
- 1980 Visitor posting - Famous DJ / Rave Promoter "ScoobyDooWhereRU" was born - USA
- 1981 Visitor posting - The world is blessed with the birth of Krista Beresford - Canada
- 1981 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
- 1982 A rally against the nuclear arms race brings 800,000 demonstrators into New York's Central Park
- 1982 Number one hit on UK music charts - Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
- 1986 P W Botha declares South African national emergency
- 1989 Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids
- 1990 In Winnipeg Manitoba, Elijah Harper uses rules of procedure to block the introduction of the resolution ratifying the Meech Lake Accord in the Manitoba legislature
- 1990 Russia Day The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
- 1991 Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Alica Gay Kolb is Born - USA
- 1993 Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola elected President of Nigeria in record turnout for Nigerian elections.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Moneshae Terrell was Born to Angela White and Harry Terrell - USA
- 1994 German districts Rbel and Waren are merged to form Mritz
- 1994 Maiden flight of the Boeing 777
- 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.
- 1995 Visitor posting - June 12, 1995 Alex Cesare is born to Pete & Melody
- 1995 Visitor posting - June 12 1995 Heather Katherine Fumia the Great was born
- 1996 Visitor posting - Vanessa Hands was born
- 1996 Visitor posting - Kala Hartley was born to Kirk and Bobbi Hartley - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - Hope Louise was BORN!!!!! - USA
- 1997 Interleague play begins in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series (with the exception of the All-Star Game).
- 1997 Visitor posting - Samantha N Grant is born Highlands Ranch, CO - USA
- 1998 The Philippines celebrates its centennial year of Independence from Spain.
- 1999 Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- 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.
- 2004 A 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
- 2006 Visitor posting - Donnilyn Williams & Darell Holmes meet in City Island, We are still together (Nov 30/09) - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - nicole and benjamin get married - Germany
- 2010 Visitor posting - Elizabeth and micheal look up what happend today, congrats on the wedding! - USA
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