Today is Wednesday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2013. There are 202 days left in the year.
1665 ― English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out
1839 ― First baseball game played in America
1849 ― Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky.
1923 ― Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above the ground in NYC
1964 ― South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment
1965 ― Rolling Stones release “Satisfaction”
1967 ― Israel wins Six-Day War
1967 ― Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages
1982 ― 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park, NYC
1989 ― Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids