Today is Tuesday, June 12, the 164th day of 2012. There are 202 days left in the year.

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

1812 ― Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins

1839 ― First baseball game played in America

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

1952 ― 420th kitten (record) born to cat named Dusty, Bonham, Texas

1964 ― South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment

1965 ― Rolling Stones release ``Satisfaction"

1967 ― Israel wins 6-day war

1967 ― Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages

1989 ― Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids