Some Facts About June 12

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.

1775 - American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer 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.

1849 - The gas mask is patented by Lewis Haslett in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

1902 - Australia: women in the four Australian States without female suffrage are given the right to vote in Commonwealth elections under Section 3 of the Commonwealth Franchise Act for a Uniform Federal Franchise. Specifically excluded from enrolling to vote are 'aboriginal native[s] of Australia Africa Asia or the Islands of the Pacific except New Zealand' unless covered under Section 41 of the Constitution of Australia.

1942 - Holocaust: future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered 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. Now, June 12th is Loving Day, aptly named in honor of the couple who finally put the prejudiced laws to death and the human emotion that conquers all.

1991 - Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.

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.

2004 - A 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.

2008 - Ireland rejects the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform programme of the European Union.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1915 - David Rockefeller, American banker

1920 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)

1924 - George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States

1929 - Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)

1930 - Jim Nabors, American actor

1959 - Jervis Johnson, Games Designer for Games Workshop, Nottingham

1968 - Bobby Sheehan, American musician (Blues Traveler) (d. 1999)

1969 - Mathieu Schneider, American ice hockey player

1971 - Ryan Klesko, American baseball player

1974 - Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player

1977 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American blues-rock guitarist

2008 - Baby Boy Hamilton, Modern Day Miracle

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
Brazil – Dia dos Namorados (Lover's Day; similar to St. Valentine's)
United States – Loving Day celebrates the legalization of interracial marriage

This is not an exhaustive list but I am exhausted from having made it.