What are the important events that happened on June 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 12: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 12 is the 163^rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 202 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 30, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,749,686,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexacontatrigon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 250 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,556 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 12 Historical 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.
• 1798 –
  Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
• 1889 –
  78 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
• 1922 –
  At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
• 1939 –
  The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
• 1943 –
  Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Berezhany, western Ukraine. 1,180 Jews are led to the city’s old Jewish graveyard and shot.
• 1990 –
  Russia Day – the parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
• 1993 –
  An election takes place in Nigeria which and is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida.
• 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 wrongful death civil suit.
• 1996 –
  In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.

Who were born on June 12?

• 1775 –
  Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851)
• 1875 –
  Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953)
• 1928 –
  Vic Damone, American singer
• 1948 –
  Herbert Meyer, German footballer
• 1962 –
  John Enos III, American actor
• 1963 –
  Tim DeKay, American actor
• 1964 –
  Paula Marshall, American actress
• 1975 –
  Bryan Alvarez, American professional wrestler
• 1979 –
  Diego Milito, Argentinian football player
• 1983 –
  Alexander Pipa, German rugby player

Who died on June 12?

• 1560 –
  Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
• 1647 –
  Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian (b. 1575)
• 1816 –
  Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
• 1904 –
  Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
• 1969 –
  Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (b. 1899)
• 1982 –
  Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
• 1994 –
  Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (b. 1949)
• 1994 –
  Toma Bebić, Dalmatian musician, writer, actor, painter, poet (b. 1935)
• 2003 –
  Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
• 2006 –
  Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)