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 164^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 202 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 30, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 477,264 hours 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 ‘hectahexacontatetragon’ 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 231 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 4,191 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 12 Historical Events

• 1665 –
  England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
• 1758 –
  French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe’s attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
• 1776 –
  The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
• 1939 –
  Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures’ Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
• 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.
• 1967 –
  The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
• 1978 –
  David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam” killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
• 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.
• 1997 –
  Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
• 1999 –
  Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Who were born on June 12?

• 1771 –
  Patrick Gass, American sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition (d. 1870)
• 1795 –
  John Marston, Served in the Union Navy during the Civil War
• 1919 –
  Uta Hagen, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1921 –
  James Archibald Houston, Canadian artist (d. 2005)
• 1971 –
  Ryan Klesko, American baseball player
• 1975 –
  Michael Muhney, American actor
• 1976 –
  Antawn Jamison, American basketball player
• 1977 –
  Richard Ayoade, English actor and writer
• 1979 –
  Dallas Clark, American football player
• 2001 –
  John Bigelow IV, golf prodigy from North Philadelphia

Who died on June 12?

• 1036 –
  Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo (b. 990)
• 1418 –
  Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
• 1778 –
  Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716)
• 1912 –
  Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822)
• 1932 –
  Theo Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
• 1962 –
  John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)
• 1982 –
  Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
• 1990 –
  Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1914)
• 1994 –
  Toma Bebić, Dalmatian musician, writer, actor, painter, poet (b. 1935)
• 2000 –
  P. L. Deshpande, Marathi writer (b. 1919)