more events on June 12
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1991
Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines begins erupting for the first time in 600 years.
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1985
The U.S. House of Representatives approves $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras.
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1977
David Berkowitz gets 25 years to life for the Son of Sam murders in New York.
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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.
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1967
The Supreme Court rules that states cannot ban interracial marriages.
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1963
Black civil rights leader Medgar Evers is assassinated by a gunman outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
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1942
American bombers strike the oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania for the first time.
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1937
Eight of Stalin’s generals are sentenced to death during purges in the Soviet Union.
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1931
Gangster Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen are indicted for violating Prohibition laws.
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1929
Anne Frank, German diarist, victim of the Holocaust.
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1926
Brazil quits the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany.
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1924
George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (1989-1993).
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1921
President Warren Harding urges every young man to attend military training camp.
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1920
Republicans nominate Warren G. Harding for president and Calvin Coolidge for vice president.
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1918
The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurs in France.
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1915
David Rockefeller, international banker.
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1901
Cuba agrees to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.
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1897
Anthony Eden, British Prime Minister (1955-1957).
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1862
Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart begins his ride around the Union Army outside of Richmond, Virginia.
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1849
The gas mask is patented by Lewis P. Haslett.
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1829
Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (Heidi).
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1812
Napoleon Bonaparte and his army invade Russia.
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1806
John Roebling, civil engineer, pioneer in designing suspension bridges.
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1442
Alfonso V of Aragon is crowned King of Naples.