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This day in history: 12 June

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366 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 12 June.
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2026: South African-American businessman Elon Musk becomes the first US$ trillionaire with the initial public offering of SpaceX.

Holidays and observances

Chaco Armistice Day (Paraguay)

Christian feast day: 108 Martyrs of World War II

Christian feast day: Basilides

Christian feast day: Blessed Florida Cevoli

Christian feast day: Blessed Hildegard Burjan

Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist

Christian feast day: Blessed Mercedes de Jesús Molina

Christian feast day: Enmegahbowh (Episcopal Church)

Christian feast day: Eskil

Christian feast day: First Ecumenical Council (Lutheran)

Christian feast day: Gaspar Bertoni

Christian feast day: June 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Events

2026South African-American businessman Elon Musk becomes the first US$ trillionaire with the initial public offering of SpaceX.

2025Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashes shortly after takeoff into the B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, India, killing 241 out of 242 onboard as well as 19 on the ground. This marked the first fatal crash and hull loss of

2024A fire in a residential building in Mangaf, Kuwait City kills at least 50 people.

2019Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is inaugurated as the second president of Kazakhstan.

2018United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea hold the first meeting between leaders of their two countries in Singapore.

2016Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States; the gunman, Omar Mateen, is killed in a gunfight with police.

2014Between 1,095 and 1,700 Shia Iraqi people are killed in an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Camp Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq. It is the second deadliest act of terrorism in history, only behind 9/11.

2009A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.

1999Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force, Kosovo Force (KFor), enters the province of Kosovo in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

1993An election takes place in Nigeria and is won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Its results are later annulled by the military government of Ibrahim Babangida.

1991In modern Russia's first democratic election, Boris Yeltsin is elected as the President of Russia.

1991Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village of Kokkadichcholai near the Eastern Province town of Batticaloa.

1990Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.

1988Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.

1987Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

1987The Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.

1982A nuclear disarmament rally and concert is held in New York City.

1981The first of the Indiana Jones film franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark, is released in theaters.

1979Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man-powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.

1975State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain: Judge Jagmohanlal Sinha rules against Indira Gandhi in a case on her election to the Indian Parliament, and that she should be banned from holding any public office, triggering a political crisis.

1967The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws that prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

1964Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela's original 5-year sentence is extended to life sentence for high treason together with Denis Goldberg, Ahmed Kathrada, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Andrew Mlangeni, Elias Motsoaledi and

1963NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.

1963The film Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released in US theaters. It was the most expensive film made at the time.

1954Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at

1950An Air France Douglas DC-4 crashes near Bahrain International Airport, killing 46 people.

1944World War II: Battle of Carentan: American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan, Normandy, France.

1943The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.

1942Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

1940World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.

1939Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.

1939The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.

1935A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War.

1921Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.

1914Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.

1900The Reichstag approves new legislation continuing Germany's naval expansion program, providing for construction of 38 battleships over a 20-year period. Germany's fleet would be the largest in the world.

1899New Richmond tornado: The ninth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.

1898Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.

1864American 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 position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.

1830Beginning of the Invasion of Algiers: Thirty-four thousand French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.

Born on this day

2002Koni De Winter, Belgian footballer

1999CarryMinati, Indian YouTuber

1996Davinson Sánchez, Colombian footballer

1996Gustav Forsling, Swedish ice hockey player

1996Shonica Wharton, Barbadian netball player

1994Don Toliver, American rapper and singer-songwriter

1992Allie DiMeco, American actress and musician

1992Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer

1991Avisaíl García, Venezuelan baseball player

1990David Worrall, English footballer

1990Jrue Holiday, American basketball player

1989Emma Eliasson, Swedish ice hockey player

1989Ibrahim Jeilan, Ethiopian runner

1988Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer

1988Mauricio Isla, Chilean footballer

1986Salim Mehajer, Australian politician

1985Blake Ross, American computer programmer, co-created Mozilla Firefox

1985Dave Franco, American actor

1985Kendra Wilkinson, American model, actress, and author

1985Sam Thaiday, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

1984Bruno Soriano, Spanish footballer

1984James Kwalia, Kenyan-Qatari runner

1983Bryan Habana, South African rugby player

1983Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player

1982James Tomlinson, English cricketer

1982Shailaja Pujari, Indian weightlifter

1981Adriana Lima, Brazilian model and actress

1981Raitis Grafs, Latvian basketball player

1980Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby player

1979Dallas Clark, American football player

1979Diego Milito, Argentine footballer

1979Earl Watson, American basketball player and coach

1979Martine Dugrenier, Canadian wrestler

1979Robyn, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer

1978Lewis Moody, English rugby player

1977Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American blues-rock guitarist

1977Wade Redden, Canadian ice hockey player

1976Antawn Jamison, American basketball player and sportscaster

1976Paul Stenning, English author

1976Ray Price, Zimbabwean cricketer

Died on this day

2024Jerry West, American basketball player and executive (born 1938)

2024Neil Goldschmidt, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Governor of Oregon (born 1940)

2024William H. Donaldson, American businessman (born 1931)

2023Francesco Nuti, Italian actor and director, (born 1955)

2023John Romita Sr., comic book artist and author (born 1930)

2023Silvio Berlusconi, Italian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1936)

2023Treat Williams, American actor (born 1951)

2022Phil Bennett, Welsh rugby union player (born 1948)

2022Philip Baker Hall, American actor (born 1931)

2019Sylvia Miles, American actress (born 1924)

2018Jon Hiseman, English drummer (born 1944)

2015Fernando Brant, Brazilian journalist, poet, and composer (born 1946)

2013Jason Leffler, American racing driver (born 1975)

2013Teresita Barajuen, Spanish nun (born 1908)

2012Elinor Ostrom, American political scientist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1933)

2012Frank Walker, Australian judge and politician, 41st Attorney General of New South Wales (born 1942)

2012Hector Bianciotti, Argentinian-French journalist and author (born 1930)

2012Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, Danish-German psychoanalyst and author (born 1917)

2012Medin Zhega, Albanian footballer and manager (born 1946)

2012Pahiño, Spanish footballer (born 1923)

2011René Audet, Canadian bishop (born 1920)

2010Al Williamson, American illustrator (born 1931)

2008Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer and manager (born 1932)

2008Miroslav Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player (born 1951)

2006György Ligeti, Romanian-Hungarian composer and educator (born 1923)

2006Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (born 1923)

2006Nicky Barr, Australian rugby player and fighter pilot (born 1915)

2005Scott Young, Canadian journalist and author (born 1918)

2003Gregory Peck, American actor and political activist (born 1916)

2002Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Limited (born 1922)

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