This site was created to easily navigate collection of various events in history. History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past. It is important to know dates and events in the past.

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June 12th, 2008	Event	Ireland rejects the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform programme of the European Union.
June 12th, 2008	Death	Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (born in 1932)
June 12th, 2007	Death	Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (born in 1917)
June 12th, 2006	Death	Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian composer (born in 1923)
June 12th, 2006	Death	Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (born in 1923)
June 12th, 2005	Death	Scott Young, Canadian sportswriter, novelist, and journalist (born in 1918)
June 12th, 2004	Event	A 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
June 12th, 2003	Death	Gregory Peck, American actor (born in 1916)
June 12th, 2002	Death	Bill Blass, American fashion designer (born in 1922)
June 12th, 2000	Event	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.

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