June 12 is the 163rd day of the year.
There are 202 days remaining until the end of the year.
Sunrise5:47 AM
Sunset8:32 PM
14 hours44minutes 43 seconds of sunlight today
High Tides
9:27 am at 4.2
9:09 pm at 6.3
Low Tides
2:58 at 0.2
2:26 at 1.4
Today is Machine Day
It's also
Russia Day (Russia)
Chaco Armistice Day (Paraguay)
Dia dos Namorados (Brazil)
Helsinki Day (Finland)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Philippines from Spain in 1898.
June 12 Commemoration (Lagos State)
Loving Day (United States)
World Day Against Child Labour (International)
On this day in history
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
1550 – The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1972 – The fast food restaurant chain Popeyes is founded in Arabi, Louisiana.
1978 – David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
1979 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
1987 – The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1990 – Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
1991 – Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in
wrongful death civil suit.
1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
1996 – In Philadelphia, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
2009 – A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world.
If today is your birthday you share it with:
1890 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (d. 1918)
1892 – Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)
1897 – Anthony Eden, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker and businessman
1919 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (d. 2004)
1920 – Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
1924 – George H. W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States
1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch author and Holocaust memoirist and victim (d. 1945)
1930 – Jim Nabors, American actor and singer
1931 – Trevanian, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
1931 – Rona Jaffe, American author (d. 2005)
1941 – Chick Corea, American pianist and composer