Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 12

This is a list of selected June 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Turkish irregulars in Phocaea
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  Nelson Mandela
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  Dominic Savio
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  Abby Sunderland
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  Germany Army armoured vehicle serving in KFOR
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  Anne Frank
• Reagan speaking at the Brandenburg Gate

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Democracy Day in Nigeria	refimprove
; Russia Day	refimprove
1899 – The New Richmond tornado killed 117 people and injured 125 others in the Upper Midwest region of the United States.	refimprove
1889 – Runaway passenger carriages collided with a following train near Armagh, present-day Northern Ireland, killing 80 people.	refimprove
1964 – Nelson Mandela and other leaders of the African National Congress were found guilty for sabotaging the apartheid system in South Africa.	refimprove section, and Mandela is featured on February 11
1994 – Former American football star O. J. Simpson allegedly murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson.	Featured on June 17, date of Simpson's low-speed chase
* 1963 – African-American civil-rights activist Medgar Evers was murdered by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.	Too much uncited
Independence Day in the Philippines (1898);	Three orange tags for citations

Eligible

• 1240 – The Disputation of Paris, in which four rabbis defended the Talmud against Nicholas Donin's accusations of blasphemy, began in the court of King Louis IX.
• 1775 – Thomas Gage, the governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, offered a general pardon to colonists who remained loyal to Britain.
• 1776 – The Fifth Virginia Convention adopted a declaration of rights, an influential document that proclaimed the inherent rights of men.
• 1921 – Soviet politician Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko authorised the use of chemical weapons against a peasant rebellion in the Tambov Governorate.
• 1942 – On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank (pictured) began keeping a diary during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
• 1963 – The premiere was held in New York of the historical drama film Cleopatra, the most expensive film made to that point.
• 1967 – The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws restricting interracial marriage in the landmark civil rights case Loving v. Virginia.
• 1978 – American serial killer David Berkowitz, popularly known as the "Son of Sam", was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison for each of six killings.
• 1981 – Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first film to star Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, was released.
• 1987 – Cold War: During a speech at the Brandenburg Gate by the Berlin Wall, US president Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" (speech featured).
• 1991 – More than 150 Sri Lankan Tamil civilians were massacred by members of the military in the village of Kokkadichcholai.
• 1999 – In the aftermath of the bombing of Yugoslavia and the Kosovo War, the NATO-led Kosovo Force entered Kosovo with a mandate of establishing a secure environment in the territory.
• 2010 – Sixteen-year-old Abby Sunderland was rescued after her boat was dismasted in the Indian Ocean while trying to become the youngest sailor around the world.
• 2016 – An Islamic terrorist killed 49 people in a mass shooting at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida.
• Born/died this day: | John Fitzalan, 7th Earl of Arundel |d|1435| Adriaen van Stalbemt |b|1580| Thomas Farnaby |d|1647| Samuel Cooper |b|1798| Egwale Seyon |d|1818| Thomas C. Hart |b|1877| Egon Schiele |b|1890| Eugénie Brazier |b|1895| Daisy Yen Wu |b|1902| Javed Miandad |b|1957 Billy Butlin |d|1980| Milorad Petrović |d|1981| Christine Sinclair|b|1983| Philippe Coutinho |b|1992| Gregory Peck |d|2003

Notes

• Jessica Watson appears on May 15, so Abby Sunderland should not appear in the same year

June 12: First day of Shavuot (Judaism, 2024); Dia dos Namorados in Brazil; Loving Day in the United States (1967)

Boeing 777

• 1798 – Following the successful French invasion of Malta, the Knights Hospitaller surrendered Malta to Napoleon, initiating two years of occupation.
• 1864 – Union general Ulysses S. Grant pulled his troops out of the Battle of Cold Harbor in Hanover County, Virginia, ending one of the bloodiest, most lopsided battles in the American Civil War.
• 1914 – As part of the Ottoman Empire's policies of ethnic cleansing, Turkish irregulars began a six-day massacre in the predominantly Greek town of Phocaea.
• 1954 – Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at his death in 1857, was canonized by Pope Pius XII, making him one of the youngest non-martyred saints in the Catholic Church.
• 1994 – The Boeing 777 (pictured), the world's largest twinjet, made its maiden flight.

• Æthelflæd (d. 918)
• Samuel Cooper (b. 1798)
• Eugénie Brazier (b. 1895)
• Malekeh Malekzadeh Bayani (d. 1999)

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