June 12
1442 | Alfonso V of Aragon is crowned King of Naples. | |
1812 | Napoleon Bonaparte and his army invade Russia. | |
1849 | The gas mask is patented by L. P. Haslett. | |
1862 | Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart begins his ride around the Union Army outside of Richmond, Virginia. | |
1901 | Cuba agrees to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment. | |
1918 | The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurs in France. | |
1920 | Republicans nominate Warren G. Harding for president and Calvin Coolidge for vice president. | |
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. | |
1937 | Eight of Stalin's generals are sentenced to death during purges in the Soviet Union. | |
1942 | American bombers strike the oil refineries of Ploesti, Rumania for the first time. | |
1963 | Black civil rights leader Medgar Evers is assassinated by a gunman outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. | |
1967 | The Supreme Court rules that states cannot ban interracial marriages. | |
1972 | At a hearing in front the of a U.S. House of Representatives committee, Air Force General John Lavalle defends his orders on engagement in Vietnam. | |
1977 | David Berkowitz gets 25 years to life for the Son of Sam murders in New York. | |
1985 | The U.S. House of Representatives approves $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras. | |
1991 | Mount Pinatubo in the Phillipines begins erupting for the first time in 600 years. |
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