What is June 12?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1950 === * [[1381]] &ndash; Peasants' Revolt: In [[England]], rebels arrive at Blackheath. * [[1418]] &ndash; An insurrection delivers [[Paris]] to control of the [[Burgundy|Burgundians]]. * [[1429]] &ndash; [[Battle of Jargeau]]: [[Joan of Arc]] leads the French army in the capture of the city and the English commander, [[William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk]] in the battle's second day. * [[1550]] &ndash; [[Helsinki]], present-day capital of [[Finland]] and then-part of [[Sweden]], is founded by King [[Gustav I of Sweden]]. * [[1560]] &ndash; [[Battle of Okehazama]]: [[Oda Nobunaga]] defeats [[Imagawa Yoshimoto]]. * [[1665]] &ndash; [[England]] installs a municipal [[government]] in [[New York (state)|New York]]. * [[1758]] &ndash; [[French and Indian War]]: [[Siege of Louisbourg]] – [[James Wolfe]]'s attack on Louisbourg, [[Nova Scotia]], begins. * [[1775]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]]: British general [[Thomas Gage]] declares martial law in [[Massachusetts]]. * [[1776]] &ndash; The [[Virginia Declaration of Rights]] is adopted in what would become the [[United States]]. * [[1860]] &ndash; The State [[Bank]] of the [[Russia]]n Empire is founded. * [[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Cold Harbor]] – General [[Ulysses S. Grant]] pulls his Union troops from their positions, handing victory to Confederate General [[Robert E. Lee]]. * [[1872]] &ndash; The Royal Mint (where money is made) opens in [[Melbourne]]. * [[1889]] &ndash; The [[Armagh]] rail disaster occurs in present-day [[Northern Ireland]], killing 78 people. * [[1897]] &ndash; [[Carl Elsener]] [[patent]]s a small pen knife, now called the [[Swiss army knife]]. * [[1898]] &ndash; The republic of the [[Philippines]] declares independence from [[Spain]]. * [[1899]] &ndash; [[United States]]: The New Richmond [[tornado]] kills 117 people. * [[1929]] &ndash; [[Anne Frank]] is born in [[Frankfurt am Main]], [[Germany]]. * [[1932]] &ndash; [[Bayern Munich]] win the German [[Soccer|football]] c