Portal:United States/Anniversaries/June/June 12

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June 12:

Events

• 1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
• Louisbourg, Nova Scotia
  commences.
• Massachusetts. The British offered a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock
  , if captured, were to be hanged.
• 1864 – American Civil War Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
• New Richmond Tornado: 8th deadliest tornado
  in U.S. history – killing 117 and injuring around 200 people.
• University of Michigan School of Music
  .
• 1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three–strip Technicolor.
• Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot dead in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith
  .
• United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional
  .
• 1967 –
  space probe to enter another planet
  's atmosphere and successfully return data).
• 1978 – David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
• 1987 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate.
• NBA Championship
• O.J. Simpson
  is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet
  .