FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2009

Today is Friday, the 163rd day of 2009. 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

1839 _ First baseball game played in America

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

1867 _ Austro-Hungarian Empire forms

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

1964 _ South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment

1967 _ Israel wins Six-Day war

1967 _ Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages