Today in History
What happened on the 12th of June in history?
Change Date:
- 1665
English rename New Amsterdam NY after Dutch pull out
- 1776
Va 1st to adopt Bill of Rights
- 1787
Senators must be at least 30
- 1812
Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins
- 1838
Iowa Territory organized
- 1838
Hopkins Observatory - dedicated in Williamstown - Mass
- 1839
1st baseball game played in America
- 1880
1st baseball perfect game - John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve
- 1898
Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain
- 1907
Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to the Tigers
- 1917
Secret Service extend protection of pres to his family
- 1920
Farmer Labor Party organized
- 1934
Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines
- 1936
1st 50KW radio station - Pittsburgh Pa
- 1937
USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued
- 1939
Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
- 1946
Philippines National Day
- 1957
Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg
- 1963
Medgar Evers - NAACP official - murdered in Jackson - Miss
- 1967
Israel wins 6 day war
- 1967
USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
- 1971
Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
- 1972
John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish"
- 1973
Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
- 1977
Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library
- 1979
Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel
- 1981
3rd baseball strike starts
- 1982
750 -000 anti-nuclear demonstrators in Central Park NYC
- 1986
P W Botha declares South African national emergency
