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June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years ), with 202 days remaining.
Events
1300-1899
1900-1999 1935 - Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words. [1] (http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Huey_Long_Filibusters.htm ) 1935 - Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932 . 1939 - The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated in Cooperstown, New York .1940 - World War II : 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at St. Valery-en-Caux.1942 - Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday .1963 - Cleopatra Elizabeth Taylor , Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City .1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron de la Beckwith. 1964 - South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison.1967 - The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional . [2] (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/loving.html ) 1967 - Venera program : Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet 's atmosphere and successfully return data). 1978 - David Berkowitz , the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City , is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.1979 - Bryan Allen flies the Gossamer Albatross , man powered, across the English Channel .1981 - Major League Baseball players begin a 49 day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation.1982 - 750,000 people rally against nuclear weapons in New York City 's Central Park . Jackson Browne , James Taylor , Bruce Springsteen , and Linda Ronstadt are in attendance.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.1987 - Cold War : U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall . 1987 - Predator John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger . 1988 - Rusty Wallace wins the last Nascar Winston Cup race at the Riverside International Raceway 1990 - The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty (see Russia Day ).1991 - Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.1991 - The Chicago Bulls win their first National Basketball Association championship. The Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one. 1993 - The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the first annual of their live concert Weenie Roast with Terence Trent D'Arby , Dramarama , Gin Blossoms , The Lemonheads , The London Suede , The Posies, Rocket From the Crypt , Bettie Serveert , Stone Temple Pilots , The The and X .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.1996 - In internet .1997 - Interleague play begins in baseball , ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series .1997 - The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit -resistant. [3] (http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/rr1746.htm ) 1998 - A jury in Hattiesburg, Mississippi , convicts 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School. [4] (http://www.cnn.com/US/9806/12/school.shooting.verdict/ ) 1999 - Kosovo War : Operation Joint Guardian begins - NATO -led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enter the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia .
2000-2099 2004 - The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the twelfth annual of their live concert Weenie Roast with Bad Religion , Beastie Boys , Cypress Hill , The Hives , Hoobastank , The Killers , Modest Mouse , New Found Glory , Story of the Year , The Strokes , Velvet Revolver , Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Yellowcard .
Births
1800-1899
1900-1949 1903 - Emmett Hardy , jazz musician (d. 1925 )1905 - Ray Barbuti , American athlete (d. 1988 )1915 - David Rockefeller , banker1916 - Ivan Tors, movie producer (d. 1983 )1916 - Irwin Allen , movie producer (d. 1991 ) 1918 - Samuel Z. Arkoff , movie producer (d. 2001 )1919 - Uta Hagen , actress (d. 2004 )1920 - Dave Berg , cartoonist for Mad Magazine (d. 2002 )1921 (some sources say 1919 ) - Vera Ralston , actress1921 - James Houston, artist 1924 - George H.W. Bush , 41st President of the United States 1928 - Vic Damone , singer1929 - Anne Frank , Nazi victim known for her diary (d. 1945 )1929 - Brigid Brophy , British writer 1930 - Otto Schenk, actor and director1930 - Jim Nabors , actor and musician1932 - Rona Jaffe , novelist1935 - Christoph Meckel, writer1941 - Chick Corea , musician1941 - Marv Albert , sportscaster 1945 - Pat Jennings , football player1946 - Harry Glasper , writer
1950-1999
Deaths
1600-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Holidays and observances June 11 - June 13 - May 12 - July 12 -- listing of all days
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June 1999 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (495 words)
June 5 - The AIS, the armed wing of FIS, agrees in principle to disband in Algeria. June 15 - George Morber Senior and Carolyn Frederick are murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz in Gorham, Illinois. June 18 - The J18 international anti-globalization protests was organized in dozens of cities around the world, some of which led to riots.
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