Daily Calendar for Thursday, June 12, 2025

Born

  • Archie Bleyer (bandleader) –
  • Irwin Allen (director) –
  • George H. W. Bush (41st U.S. president) –
  • Anne Frank (author) –
  • Jim Nabors (actor and singer) –
  • Paula Marshall (actress) –

Died

  • Leo Buscaglia (self-help guru Dr. Hugβ€β€œ) –
  • Theresa Merritt (actress) –
  • Bill Blass (fashion designer) –
  • Gregory Peck (actor) –
  • Makobo Modjadji VI (the rain queen” of South Africa’s Lobedu tribe. She was the sixth and youngest queen”) –
  • Scott Young (journalist) –
  • Don Herbert (television’s science teacher Mr. Wizardβ€β€œ) –
  • Jiroemon Kimura (world’s oldest man known, as of June 2013; died at age 116) –

Events

  • England created a municipal government in New York–
  • Society of Unitarian Christians organized–
  • Portsmouth Navy Yard (NH) was established, and later its name was changed to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard–
  • Magician Harry Houdini thrilled a large audience by struggling free from a straightjacket, head downward, 40 feet above the ground–
  • First man-powered flight across the English Channel was made by Bryan Allen in the Gossamer Albatross–
  • President Reagan gave the famous β€œTear Down This Wall” speech, Berlin–
  • The Chicago Bulls won their first NBA championship title–
  • A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck most of Southern California–
  • Amy Singley and Steven Smith wed in Pennsylvania. The pair were born on the same day in the same hospital.–
  • The Dallas Mavericks beat the Miami Heat to win the NBA championship series for the first time in the franchise’s 31-year history–

Weather

  • Lander, Wyoming, had 18.4 inches of heavy, wet snow, a record for this date–
  • Floods and mudslides at Salt Lake City, Utah–
  • The Cedar River flooded its banks in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 homes, collapsing a railroad bridge, and submerging cars downtown. An estimated 100 blocks were under water.–
  • 113 degrees F in Tribune, Kansas–

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