TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JUNE 12
1099 Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem.
1381 Peasants’ Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath
1665 English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out
1701 Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
1787 Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
1792 George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, BC
1812 Napoleon Bonaparte and his army invade Russia.
1838 Territory of Iowa organized
1849 The gas mask is patented by Lewis P. Haslett.
1880 John Lee Richmond pitched baseball’s first perfect game. A perfect game occurs when no batter reaches a base during a complete game of at least nine innings.
1885 Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
1901 Cuba agrees to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.
1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
1921 President Warren Harding urges every young man to attend military training camp.
1926 Brazil quits the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany.
1931 Gangster Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen are indicted for violating Prohibition laws.
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.
1937 Eight of Stalin’s generals are sentenced to death during purges in the Soviet Union.
1963 Black civil rights leader Medgar Evers is assassinated by a gunman outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa
1967 The Supreme Court rules that states cannot ban interracial marriages.
1967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
1977 David Berkowitz gets 25 years to life for the Son of Sam murders in New York.
1982 75,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City’s Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt were in attendance.
1985 The U.S. House of Representatives approves $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras.
1987 U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1991 Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines begins erupting for the first time in 600 years.
1991 Boris Yeltsin becomes Russia’s first President
1996 In Philadelphia a panel of federal judges blocked a law against indecency on the internet. The panel said that the 1996 Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the free speech rights of adults.
2016 Mass Shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida Kills 49 People
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
