June 12

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[edit] Events

• 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.
• 1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
• 1775 - American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offered 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 captured, were to be hanged.
• 1830 - Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers landed 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
• 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.
• 1898 - Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
• 1940 - World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
• 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.
• 1967 - The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
• 1978 - David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
• 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.
  • Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate.
• 1991 - Boris Yeltsin elected president of the Russian Federation
• 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.

[edit] Births

• 1897 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
• 1908 - Otto Skorzeny, Famous WWII German SS commando (d. 1975)
• 1915 - David Rockefeller, American banker and internationalist
• 1924 - George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
• 1929 - Anne Frank, Jewish pseudo diarist (d. 1945)

[edit] Deaths

• 1922 - Wolfgang Kapp, leader of the Kapp Putsch (b. 1858)
• 1972 - Saul Alinsky, radical political activist (b. 1909)
• 1994 - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher Rebbe (b. 1902)