Tuesday, June 12, 2012

June 12th in History



1099 - Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem.

1442 - Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples.

1665 - England installed a municipal government in New York. It was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

1812 - Napoleon's invasion of Russia began.

1838 - The Iowa Territory was organized.

1898 - Philippine nationalists declared their independence from Spain.

1900 - The Reichstag approved a second law that would allow the expansion of the German navy.

1901 - Cuba agreed to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.

1918 - The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurred on World War I's Western Front in France. 

1926 - Brazil quit the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany. 

1935 - U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words. 

1935 - The Chaco War was ended with a truce. Bolivia and Paraguay had been fighting since 1932. 

1937 - The Soviet Union executed eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin. 

1944 - Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung announced that he would support Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in the war against Japan. 

1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, MS. 

1967 - State laws which prohibited interracial marriages were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. 

1990 - The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declared its sovereignty. 

2003 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis spoke for the first time in nearly 19 years. Wallis had been in a coma since July 13, 1984, after being injured in a car accident. 

Famous Birthdays:

1915 - David Rockefeller, Banker

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

1929 - Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank, Known for her diary which documented her experiences during World War II 

1944 - Reg Presley, Musician

1977 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Musician



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