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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Dominic Savio
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Abby Sunderland
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1964 – Nelson Mandela and other leaders of the African National Congress were found guilty for sabotaging the apartheid system in South Africa. | refimprove, and Mandela is featured on February 11 |
| 1967 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in the landmark civil rights case Loving v. Virginia, striking down laws restricting interracial marriage in the United States. | original research |
| 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 |
| 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. | needs copyediting |
Eligible
- 1381 – The first mass protest in the Peasants' Revolt began in Blackheath, England, with Lollard priest John Ball asking a crowd, "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?"
- 1899 – The New Richmond tornado killed 117 people and injured 125 others in the northern Great Plains of the United States.
- 1954 – Pope Pius XII canonised Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old when he died, to make him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1963 – African American civil rights activist Medgar Evers was murdered by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
- 1978 – American serial killer David Berkowitz was sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
- 1991 – Members of the Sri Lankan military massacred over 150 Sri Lankan Tamil civilians in the village of Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa.
- 1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, made its first flight.
- 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.
June 12: Independence Day in the Philippines; Russia Day in the Russian Federation; Dia dos Namorados in Brazil
- 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.
- 1889 – Runaway passenger carriages collided with a following train near Armagh, present-day Northern Ireland, killing 80 people.
- 1942 – On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank (statue pictured) began keeping her diary during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
- 1987 – Cold War: During a speech at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate by the Berlin Wall, U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!"
- 2001 – Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month long letter bomb campaign against the British supermarket chain Tesco.