What happend on 12th June

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13.06
1963

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.

1942

Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

1940

World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.

1939

The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.

1935

Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay, fighting since 1932.

1935

Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record. The speech takes 15½ hours and was filled by 150,000 words.

1931

Charlie Parker equals cricket record for the earliest date to reach 100 wickets. Tich Freeman reaches 100 wickets a day later.

1922

In Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded

1922

St.Louis Brown pitcher Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth three consecutive times.

1898

Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.