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| Birthday June 12, 1819 Charles Kingsley, English clergyman, novelist (Westward Ho!) |
| Birthday June 12, 1829 Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (Heidi) |
| Birthday June 12, 1897 Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon (C), British prime minister (1955-57) |
| Birthday June 12, 1915 David Rockefeller, Intl Power Broker |
| Birthday June 12, 1916 Irwin Allen, Movie disaster producer |
| Birthday June 12, 1919 Uta Hagen |
| Birthday June 12, 1921 Vera Ralston, Actress |
| Birthday June 12, 1924 George Herbert Walker Bush, (R), 43rd VP (1981-89) |
| Birthday June 12, 1924 George Herbert Walker Bush is born |
| Birthday June 12, 1928 Vic Damone |
| Birthday June 12, 1929 Anne Frank, diarist |
| Birthday June 12, 1932 Jim Nabors, (Gomer Pyle) Actor-singer |
| Birthday June 12, 1932 Rona Jaffe, Author |
| Birthday June 12, 1941 Chick Corea, a funky jazz musician |
| Birthday June 12, 1943 Marv Albert, Yes! Sportscaster |
| History June 12, 1665 English rename New Amsterdam NY after Dutch pull out |
| History June 12, 1776 Va 1st to adopt Bill of Rights |
| History June 12, 1776 Virginia adopts George Mason's Declaration of Rights |
| History June 12, 1787 Senators must be at least 30 |
| History June 12, 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins |
| History June 12, 1838 Hopkins Observatory - dedicated in Williamstown - Mass |
| History June 12, 1838 Iowa Territory organized |
| History June 12, 1839 1st baseball game played in America |
| History June 12, 1862 J.E.B. Stuart rides around the Union army |
| History June 12, 1864 Grant pulls out of Cold Harbor |
| History June 12, 1876 Journalist headed for Little Big Horn files dispatch |
| History June 12, 1880 1st baseball perfect game - John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve |
| History June 12, 1897 Deadly quake hits India |
| History June 12, 1898 Philippine independence declared |
| History June 12, 1898 Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain |
| History June 12, 1907 Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to the Tigers |
| History June 12, 1917 King Constantine of Greece abdicates |
| History June 12, 1917 Secret Service extend protection of pres to his family |
| History June 12, 1920 Farmer Labor Party organized |
| History June 12, 1920 Big Red sets record at Belmont Stakes |
| History June 12, 1934 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines |
| History June 12, 1936 1st 50KW radio station - Pittsburgh Pa |
| History June 12, 1937 USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued |
| History June 12, 1939 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY |
| History June 12, 1940 Paris on the verge of invasion |
| History June 12, 1940 Edsel Ford agrees to manufacture Rolls-Royce engines for war effort |
| History June 12, 1942 Anne Frank receives a diary |
| History June 12, 1944 John F. Kennedy receives medals |
| History June 12, 1946 Philippines National Day |
| History June 12, 1957 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg |
| History June 12, 1963 Medgar Evers - NAACP official - murdered in Jackson - Miss |
| History June 12, 1963 Medgar Evers assassinated |
| History June 12, 1965 South Vietnamese premier resigns |
| History June 12, 1967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus |
| History June 12, 1967 Israel wins 6 day war |
| History June 12, 1971 Honey Cone earns a #1 hit with Want Ads |
| History June 12, 1971 Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House |
| History June 12, 1972 Lavelle testifies before Congress |
| History June 12, 1972 John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish" |
| History June 12, 1973 Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer |
| History June 12, 1975 Indira Gandhi convicted of election fraud |
| History June 12, 1977 Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library |
| History June 12, 1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel |
| History June 12, 1981 3rd baseball strike starts |
| History June 12, 1982 750 -000 anti-nuclear demonstrators in Central Park NYC |
| History June 12, 1986 P W Botha declares South African national emergency |
| History June 12, 1987 Reagan challenges Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall |
| History June 12, 1994 Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murdered |
| History June 12, 2003 Gregory Peck dies |