June 12th

June 12 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 192 days remaining until the end of time.

1665 After Dutch pull out, English rename New Amsterdam, New York for the experience.

1849 Gas mask is patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Kentucky

1908 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours, New York City

1916 Tennis legend Bill Tilden's 1st appearance at U.S. tennis championship. It isn’t just his tennis racket that "pings"

1931 Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury

1935 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana speaks continually for 15 hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words)

1939 The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.

1942 Anne Frank gets a diary for her birthday

1955 "Mr Peepers" (TV Comedy) starring Wally Cox [Brando’s boo] airs for last time on NBC

1967 Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages in on aptly named Loving v. Virginia

1987 At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. After 40 years of the Cold War, that was all it took?

1996 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.

1929 Annelies Frank, German Holocaust victim/diarist  

1930 Jim Nabors, maybe gay US actor/singer 

1959 Scott Thompson, gay Canadian comedian/actor 

1960 York Powers, gay US pornographic actor 

1962 John Enos, US actor 

1963 Tim Dekay, US actorworks with Matt Bomer

1964 Christopher Liam Moore, gay US actor 

1968 Manuel Blanc, French actor 

1970 Gordon Michael Woolvett, Canadian actor 

1974 Adam Donshik, maybe gay US actor/graphic designer 

1974 Jason Mewes, US actor 

1978 Chris Beckman, gay US actor/housemate Real World Chicago 

1980 Jackson Quinonez, Ecuadorian-born Spanish runner 

1986 Mario Casas, Spanish actor 

1963 Medgar Evers, US civil rights martyr, hosts target practice in Jackson, Mississippi

1988 Marcel Poot, maybe gay Belgian baron/composer, leaves a stink but everyone politely blames the dog

1994 Ron Goldman, maybe gay very unlucky waiter, and Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of OJ, are brutally slashed by an unknown, mysterious assailant who will probably lead police on a slow car chase in a white Ford Bronco toward the Mexico border while wearing a fake moustache and talking to a friend named Al Cowlins. I’m guessing.

2002 Bill Blass, maybe gay US fashion designer, is left in stitches