📜 This Day in History

June 12

• 1240The Disputation of Paris, in which four rabbis defended the Talmud against Nicholas Donin's accusations of blasphemy, began in the court of King Louis IX.
• 1864Union general Ulysses S. Grant pulled his troops out of the Battle of Cold Harbor in Hanover County, Virginia, ending one of the bloodiest, most lopsided battles in the American Civil War.
• 1954Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at his death in 1857, was canonized by Pope Pius XII, making him one of the youngest non-martyred saints in the Catholic Church.
• 1978American serial killer David Berkowitz, popularly known as the "Son of Sam", was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison for each of six killings.
• 1994The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, made its maiden flight.
• 2025Air India Flight 171 crashed shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, India, killing 260 people.

Born on this day

• 1897Anthony Eden, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1977)
• 1924George H. W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States (died 2018)
• 1929Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust (died 1945)
• 1962Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist, professor and cultural critic