June
12
Independence
Day
Philippines : June 12 1898
June
12 : World Day Against Child Labour
The International Labour Organization (ILO)
launched the World Day Against Child Labour
in 2002 to focus attention on the global extent
of child labour and the action and efforts
needed to eliminate it. Each year on 12 June,
the World Day brings together governments,
employers and workers organizations, civil
society, as well as millions of people from
around the world to highlight the plight of
child labourers and what can be done to help
them.
The
ILO’s adoption of Convention No. 182 in 1999
consolidated the global consensus on child
labour elimination. Millions of child labourers
have benefited from the Convention, but much
remains to be done. The latest figures estimated
that 215 million children are trapped in child
labour, and 115 million of these children
are in hazardous work. The ILO’s member states
have set the target for eliminating the Worst
Forms of Child Labour by 2016. To achieve
this goal requires a major scaling up of effort
and commitment.
A
future without child labour is at last within
reach. Significant progress is being made
worldwide in combating child labour. The new
global estimates of trends reinforce this
message of hope. However, a strong and sustained
global movement is needed to provide the extra
push towards eliminating the scourge of child
labour. This is no time for complacency.
Events
1381
– Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive
at Blackheath.
1418 – An insurrection delivers Paris to the
Burgundians.
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads
the French army in their capture of the city
and the English commander, William de la Pole,
1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the
Battle of Jargeau.
1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats
Imagawa Yoshimoto.
1653 – First Anglo-Dutch War: the Battle of
the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
1665 – England installs a municipal government
in New York City (the former Dutch settlement
of New Amsterdam).
1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg
– James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova
Scotia commences.
1775 – American Revolution: British general
Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts.
The British offer a pardon to all colonists
who lay down their arms. There would be only
two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams
and John Hancock, if captured, were to be
hanged.
1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights
is adopted.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of
Ballynahinch.
1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire
is established.
1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign:
Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives
the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee
a victory when he pulls his Union troops from
their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and
moves south.
1889 – 78 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster
near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence:
General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines'
independence from Spain.
1899 – New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest
tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and
injures around 200.
1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives
the colours of the six Irish regiments that
are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment,
the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse,
the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the
Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin
Fusiliers.
1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures'
Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed
in three-strip Technicolor.
1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in
Cooperstown, New York.
1940 – World War II: 13,000 British and French
troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel
at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
1942 – Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary
for her thirteenth birthday.
1943 – Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish
Ghetto in Berezhany, western Ukraine. 1,180
Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard
and shot.
1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio,
who was 14 years old at the time of his death,
as a saint, making him the youngest non-martyr
saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is
murdered in front of his home in Jackson,
Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De
La Beckwith.
1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader
Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison
for sabotage in South Africa.
1967 – The United States Supreme Court in
Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state
laws which prohibit interracial marriage to
be unconstitutional.
1967 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched
(it will become the first space probe to enter
another planet's atmosphere and successfully
return data).
1978 – David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam"
killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365
years in prison for six killings.
1979 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer
prize for a man powered flight across the
English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
1987 – The Central African Republic's former
Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to
death for crimes he had committed during his
13-year rule.
1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S.
President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges
Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin
Wall.
1990 – Russia Day – the parliament of the
Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
1991 – Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the
president of the republic.
1991 – 1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre: the
Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil
civilians in the village Kokkadichcholai near
the eastern province town of Batticaloa, Sri
Lanka.
1993 – An election takes place in Nigeria
which and is later annulled by the military
Government led by Ibrahim Babangida.
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman
are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles,
California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted
of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful
death civil suit.
1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest
twinjet, makes its first flight.
1996 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel
of federal judges blocks a law against indecency
on the internet.
1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe
Theatre in London.
1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian
begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping
force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo
in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages
while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil; the highly-publicized standoff becomes
a media circus and ends with the death of
do Nascimento and a hostage.
2001 – Robert Edward Dyer is sentenced to
16 years' imprisonment for attempting to extort
money from a British supermarket chain through
a letter bomb campaign.
2009 – A disputed presidential election in
Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran
and around the world.
Holidays
and observances
Chaco
Armistice Day (Paraguay)
Christian Feast Day:
Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius
Eskil
John of Sahagún
Onuphrius
Pope Leo III
Ternan
June 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Dia dos Namorados (Brazil)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of the Philippines from Spain in 1898.
June 12 Commemoration (Lagos State)
Loving Day (United States)
Russia Day (Russia)
World Day Against Child Labour (International)
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