June 12 is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 202 days remaining until the end of the year.
June 12: Dia dos Namorados in Brazil; Independence Day in the Philippines; Loving Day in the United States
More anniversaries:
1381 – The first mass protest in thePeasants' Revolt began in Blackheath, England, caused by political and socioeconomic tensions due to the Black Deathand high taxes as a result of the Hundred Years' War.
1899 – The New Richmond tornado killed 117 people and injured 125 others in the northern Great Plains of the United States.
1942 – On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank 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(pictured) 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.