Today is Saturday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2010. There are 202 days left in the year.

1665 _ English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out

1792 _ George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, B.C.

1812 _ Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins

1849 _ Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky.

1880 _ First baseball perfect game _ John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleveland

1898 _ Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to U.S. control

1964 _ South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment

1965 _ Rolling Stones release ``Satisfaction"

1967 _ Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages

1989 _ Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids