On This Day for June 12 - Election of Boris Yeltsin, Anne Frank is featured, and more

Created: 2020-06-12 10:03 Updated: 2020-06-12 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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June 12

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Anne Frank

FEATURED EVENT

1991

Election of Boris Yeltsin

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2016: The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history up to that time occurred when Omar Mateen opened fire at Pulse, an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people and wounding more than 50.

2003: American actor Gregory Peck—who often portrayed characters of honesty and integrity, most notably Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)—died in Los Angeles. [Test your knowledge of A-list actors.]

1987: Speaking about the Berlin Wall as he stood at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan famously entreated the Soviet leader, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” [Watch a video of the speech.]

1924: George H.W. Bush, vice president of the United States (1981–89) who became the 41st president of the United States (1989–93), was born. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about U.S. presidents.]

1898: The Philippines, under revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo, declared its independence from Spain .

1991: A series of major explosions began inside Mount Pinatubo, a volcano in western Luzon, Philippines—its first eruption in 600 years. [ Take our quiz about volcanoes.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1924

George H.W. Bush
president of United States

1929

Anne Frank
German diarist

1915

David Rockefeller
American banker

1890

Egon Schiele
Austrian artist

1941

Chick Corea
American musician