Daily Calendar for Tuesday, June 12, 2029

Name: Daily Almanac Features
Start: 2029-06-12T00:00:00
End: 2029-06-12T23:59:59

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Leo Buscaglia (self-help guru Dr. Hug”“) – 1998
Theresa Merritt (actress) – 1998
Bill Blass (fashion designer) – 2002
Gregory Peck (actor) – 2003
Makobo Modjadji VI (the rain queen” of South Africa’s Lobedu tribe. She was the sixth and youngest queen”) – 2005
Scott Young (journalist) – 2005
Don Herbert (television’s science teacher Mr. Wizard”“) – 2007
Jiroemon Kimura (world’s oldest man known, as of June 2013; died at age 116) – 2013

England created a municipal government in New York – 1665
Society of Unitarian Christians organized – 1796
Portsmouth Navy Yard (NH) was established, and later its name was changed to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard – 1800
Magician Harry Houdini thrilled a large audience by struggling free from a straightjacket, head downward, 40 feet above the ground – 1923
Little League Baseball launches its first season during which girls are allowed to play. – 1974
First man-powered flight across the English Channel was made by Bryan Allen in the Gossamer Albatross – 1979
President Reagan gave the famous “Tear Down This Wall” speech, Berlin – 1987
Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics successfully stole a base for the 900th time in his career, becoming just the second player ever to achieve that mark. – 1990
The Chicago Bulls won their first NBA championship title – 1991
The 48-meter-wide comet P/1999 J6 passes within 1,115,466 miles of Earth, although its small size makes it visible only to powerful telescopes. – 1999
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck most of Southern California – 2005
Amy Singley and Steven Smith wed in Pennsylvania. The pair were born on the same day in the same hospital. – 2010
The Dallas Mavericks beat the Miami Heat to win the NBA championship series for the first time in the franchise’s 31-year history – 2011

Lander, Wyoming, had 18.4 inches of heavy, wet snow, a record for this date – 1947
Floods and mudslides at Salt Lake City, Utah – 1983
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. – 2008
113 degrees F in Tribune, Kansas – 2013