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