On this day: 12 June
Events, births and deaths on 12 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · Air India Flight 171
- Deaths · Vijay Rupani
10 years ago2016
- Events · Orlando nightclub shooting
100 years ago1926
- Births · Amadeo Carrizo
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 950 · Births · Emperor Reizei
- 1107 · Births · Emperor Gaozong of Song
- 1020 · Deaths · Lyfing
Events · 28
- 910(Julian date)Battle of Lechfeld — 910 battle during the Hungarian invasions of Europe
- 1127(Julian date)Southern Song dynasty — dynasty in southern China (1127–1279)
- 1550(Julian date)Helsinki — capital and most populous city of Finland
- 1560(Julian date)Battle of Okehazama — 1560 battle
- 1653Battle of the Gabbard — 1653 battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War
- 1798Battle of Ballynahinch — battle during the Irish rebellion of 1798
- 1898Philippine Declaration of Independence — proclamation of independence of the Philippine Islands from the colonial rule of Spain
- 18991899 New Richmond tornado — Ninth deadliest tornado in United States history
- 1914Massacre of Phocaea — 1914 killing of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire
- 19233rd National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party — 1923 congress
- 1939National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum — professional sports hall of fame in New York, U.S.
- 1942Diary of Anne Frank — posthumously published, compiled and edited literary work based on Anne Frank's diaries, distinct from its individual editions and publications
- 19501950 Air France multiple Douglas DC-4 accidents — Pair of aircraft accidents in Bahrain
- 19661966 Hong Kong floods — 1966 Hong Kong rainstorm disasters
- 1967Loving v. Virginia — 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case abolishing restrictions on interracial marriage
- 1987Tear down this wall! — speech delivered by President Ronald Reagan of the USA in West Berlin in June 1987
- 1988Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046 — aviation accident
- 1991President of Russia — head of state of the RSFSR (office established in 1991) and Russia
- 19911991 Russian presidential election — election
- 19911991 Kokkadichcholai massacre — 1991 mass murder by Tamil civilians
- 1993
- 20142014 FIFA World Cup — 20th FIFA World Cup, held in Brazil
- 2014Camp Speicher massacre — Massacre by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant during the occupation of Tikrit
- 2016Orlando nightclub shooting — mass shooting at gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida
- 20182018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit — meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un
- 201912 June 2019 demonstration against extradition bill — demonstration occurred on 12th June 2019
- 20242024 Mangaf Building Fire — Fire at a residential building in Kuwait
- 2025Air India Flight 171 — 2025 aviation accident in Ahmedabad, India
Births · 60
- 950(Julian date)Emperor Reizei — Emperor of Japan
- 1107(Julian date)Emperor Gaozong of Song — emperor of Song Dynasty China (1107–1187)
- 1502(Julian date)Miguel López de Legazpi — 16th-century Spanish conquistador, navigator, and colonial governor
- 1519(Julian date)Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany — Duke of Florence (1519-1574)
- 1577(Julian date)Paul Guldin — Swiss mathematician and astronomer
- 1802Harriet Martineau — English writer and sociologist (1802–1876)
- 1806John Augustus Roebling — German-American engineer
- 1819Charles Kingsley — British clergyman, historian and novelist (1819–1875)
- 1827Johanna Spyri — Swiss writer (1827–1901)
- 1843David Gill — Scottish astronomer (1843-1914)
- 1851Oliver Lodge — British physicist (1851-1940)
- 1890Egon Schiele — Austrian painter (1890-1918)
- 1892Djuna Barnes — American Modernist writer, poet and artist (1892-1982)
- 1897Anthony Eden — British soldier, diplomat and politician (1897–1977)
- 1899Fritz Albert Lipmann — German-American biochemist
- 1908Otto Skorzeny — Austrian Waffen-SS officer (1908–1975)
- 1915David Rockefeller — American banker and philanthropist (1915–2017)
- 1915Priscilla Lane — American actress (1915–1995)
- 1919Uta Hagen — German-born American actress and drama teacher (1919–2004)
- 1921Luis García Berlanga — Spanish film director and screenwriter (1921–2010)
- 1922Margherita Hack — Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer (1922-2013)
- 1924George H. W. Bush — 41st President of the United States (1989–1993)
- 1926Amadeo Carrizo — Argentine footballer (1926-2020)
- 1929Anne Frank — German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)
- 1930Jim Nabors — American actor and singer (1930-2017)
Deaths · 60
- 816(Julian date)Leo III — Pope of the Catholic Church from 795 to 816 (born 750–816)
- 918(Julian date)Æthelflæd — Mercian monarch
- 1144(Julian date)Al-Zamakhshari — Persian scholar
- 1152Henry of Scotland — Scottish prince (1114–1152)
- 1418(Julian date)Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac — French general (1364-1418)
- 1478(Julian date)Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua — second margrave of Mantua
- 1524Diego Velazquez de Cuéllar — Spanish military officer and first ruler of Cuba
- 1560(Julian date)Imagawa Yoshimoto — Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period
- 1565(Julian date)Adrianus Turnebus — French classical scholar
- 1574(Julian date)Renee of France — French princess (1510-1574)
- 1675Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy — Duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675
- 1734James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick — Anglo-French military leader (1670-1734)
- 1758Prince Augustus William of Prussia — German general (1722-1758)
- 1772Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne — French explorer and cartographer (1724–1772)
- 1816Pierre Augereau — general, Marshal of France (1757-1816)
- 1912Frédéric Passy — French economist and statesman (1822-1912)
- 1917Teresa Carreño — Venezuelan classical pianist
- 1922Wolfgang Kapp — Prussian civil servant and journalist. Nominal leader of the Kapp-Putsch (1858-1922)
- 1932Theo Heemskerk — Dutch politician (1852-1932)
- 1937Mikhail Tukhachevsky — Marshal of the Soviet Union (1893—1937)
- 1944Erich Marcks — German general (1891–1944)
- 1946Hisaichi Terauchi — Japanese general (1879-1946)
- 1957Jimmy Dorsey — American clarinetist, alto saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, brother of Tommy Dorsey (1904–1957)
- 1962John Ireland — British composer and teacher of music (1879-1962)
- 1963Medgar Evers — African-American civil rights activist (1925-1963)
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