12 June History
- 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.
12 June Birthdays
- 1806 - John Roebling, civil engineer, pioneer in designing suspension bridges.
- 1829 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (Heidi).
- 1897 - Anthony Eden, British Prime Minister (1955-1957).
- 1915 - David Rockefeller, international banker.
- 1924 - George Bush, 41st President of the United States (1989-1993).
- 1929 - Anne Frank, German diarist, victim of the Holocaust.