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Buddha's Birthday or Buddha Day (also known as Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Purnima, and Buddha Pournami) is a primarily Buddhist festival that is celebrated in most of South, Southeast and East Asia, commemorating the birth of the prince Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Gautama Buddha and founded Buddhism.
June 12: First day of Shavuot (Judaism, 2024); Dia dos Namorados in Brazil; Loving Day in the United States Reagan speaking at the Brandenburg Gate 1775 – Thomas Gage , the governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay , offered a general pardon to colonists who remained loyal to Britain.
August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) ... The Georgian army under King David IV wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
9 July – Sir Alexander Cadogan, diplomat (born 1884) 13 July – R. J. Yeatman, humorist (born 1897) 16 July – William Evans, Welsh-language poet (born 1883) 23 July – Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1875) 19 August – George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (born 1904)
June 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Father's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala) Icelandic National Day, celebrates the independence of Iceland from Kingdom of Denmark in 1944. National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Forest Fires [48] Occupation of the Latvian Republic Day ; World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (international) [49]
1918 – Alf Francis, West Prussia-born, English motor racing mechanic and race car constructor (d. 1983) 1918 – Jerome Karle , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) 1918 – Franco Modigliani , Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
June 28 is the 179th day of the year ... Irish-born poet, ... Mohamed Osman Jawari, Somali attorney and politician, 12th Speaker of the Parliament of Somalia ...
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (German: [ˈanə(liːs maˈʁiː) ˈfʁaŋk] ⓘ, Dutch: [ˌɑnəˈlis maːˈri ˈfrɑŋk, ˈɑnə ˈfrɑŋk] ⓘ; 12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) [1] was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands.