WEDNESDAY, June 12, 2024

1812-Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins

1839-First baseball game played in America

1867-Austro-Hungarian Empire forms

1880-First baseball perfect game-John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve

1903-Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city

1917-Secret Service extends protection of president to his family

1920-Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)

1937-USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued

11967-Israel wins six-day war

1967-Race riot in Cincinnati, Ohio (300 arrested)

1967-Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages

1967-USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus

1982-750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC

1989-Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids