It happened on this day, June 12
events:
1812 – Napoleon Bonaparte begins to invade Russia as part of his campaign to assert control over Europe.
1898 – Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo declares revolution against Spanish occupation and decides to raise arms to achieve independence.
1901 – Discovery of uranium radiation by Frenchman Henri Becquerel.
1916 – The Sharif of Mecca, Hussein bin Ali Al-Hashimi, announces revolution against the Ottoman Empire.
1926 – Brazil withdraws from the League of Nations after failing to resolve border issues between it and its South American neighbors.
1960 – The interim Turkish Constitution is announced after the military coup led by army leaders against President Mahmut Celal Bayar and his government on May 27.
1965 – Military coup in South Vietnam.
1968 – The United Nations General Assembly approves the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and calls for its ratification.
2004 – Al-Qaeda's second man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, threatens the United States through an audio tape to harm Guantanamo detainees.
2005 – The Parliament of Iraqi Kurdistan unanimously elects Masoud Barzani president of the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
2009 – Presidential elections were held in Iran, the tenth presidential elections held since the Islamic Revolution, in which incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karroubi, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mohsen Rezaei participated.
✴️ The assassination of the representative in the Iraqi House of Representatives of the Accord Front, Harith Al-Obaidi, after having performed Friday prayers, by a fifteen-year-old boy.
2014 – The 2014 FIFA World Cup begins in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the Maracana Stadium, where the opening match will see a meeting between Brazil (the hosts) and Croatia in the first group of the tournament.
2015 – Start of the first edition of the European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan.
2016 – About 50 people were killed and 53 others injured in an armed attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, claimed by ISIS.
2018 – The Trump-Kim summit was held between the presidents of the United States and North Korea in Singapore, and a memorandum of understanding was signed between the two presidents.
2019 – A missile attack targeting Abha International Airport in southern Saudi Arabia, claimed by the Ansar Allah Houthi movement, disrupting international navigation at the airport for several hours and injuring twenty-six civilians of different nationalities.
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Births:
1827 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer.
1897 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1899 – Fritz Lippmann, German-American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1953.
1908 – Otto Skorzeny, Austrian officer in elite Nazi units. Mufdi Zakaria, Algerian poet.
1909 – Ali Tantawi, Syrian Islamic theologian.
1924 – George HW Bush, forty-first president of the United States.
1932 – Mohamed Awad, Egyptian actor.
1942 – Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Egyptian diplomat and minister.
1949 – Muhammad Abdo, Saudi singer.
1953 – Najib Al-Imam, Tunisian football referee.
1957 – Gamal Al-Ghandour, Egyptian football referee.
1960 – Hassan Johar, Kuwaiti academic and politician.
1965 – Talal Arslan, Lebanese politician.
1973 – Mitsuki Saiga, Japanese actress.
1979 – Diego Milito, Argentine footballer.
1985 – Blake Ross, American software developer. 1988 – Eren Dardyuk, Swiss footballer.
1992 – Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer.
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Death:
1640 – Ibn al-Nahhas al-Halabi, Levantine poet.
1912 – Frédéric Passy, French economist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
1913 – Hassan Al-Adhari, Iraqi poet.
1937 – Tukhachevsky, Soviet soldier.
1980 – Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan.
1981 – Mahmoud Fawzi, vice-president of the Republic of Egypt.
1982 – Carl von Frisch, Austrian ethologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1973.
2009 – Harith Al-Obaidi, Iraqi politician. 2012 – Elinor Ostrom, American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2009.
** Pahinho, Spanish footballer.
2014 – Majed Sultan, Kuwaiti actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ National holiday (Russia Day) in Russia.
⬅️ Independence Day in the Philippines.
⬅️ World Day Against Child Labor.
