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On June 12, 910: Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.

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Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.

The first Battle of Lechfeld, fought on 12 June 910, was an important victory by a Hungarian army over the combined forces of East Francia and Swabia (Alamannia) under the nominal command of Louis the Child. 53 mi) south of Augsburg, the Lechfeld is the floodplain that lies along the river Lech. At this time the Grand Prince of the Hungarians was Zoltán, but there is no record of him taking part in the battle.

People

Born on June 12

Koni De Winter 2002– Belgian footballer (born 2002)
CarryMinati 1999– Indian YouTuber and streamer (born 1999)
Gustav Forsling 1996– Swedish ice hockey player (born 1996)
Davinson Sánchez 1996– Colombian footballer (born 1996)
Shonica Wharton 1996– Barbadian netball player
Don Toliver 1994– American singer (born 1994)
Philippe Coutinho 1992– Brazilian footballer (born 1992)
Allie DiMeco 1992– American actress, reality television personality, and multi-instrumentalist
Avisaíl García 1991– Venezuelan baseball player (born 1991)
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Jrue Holiday 1990– American basketball player (born 1990)
David Worrall 1990– English footballer (born 1990)
Emma Eliasson 1989– Swedish ice hockey player
Ibrahim Jeilan 1989– Ethiopian long-distance runner (born 1989)
Eren Derdiyok 1988– Swiss footballer (born 1988)
Mauricio Isla 1988– Chilean footballer (born 1988)
Salim Mehajer 1986– Australian convicted criminal and property developer (born 1986)
Dave Franco 1985– American actor (born 1985)
Blake Ross 1985– American software developer

People

Died on June 12

William H. Donaldson American businessman (1931–2024)
Neil Goldschmidt American politician (1940–2024) Jerry West American basketball player and executive (1938–2024) Silvio Berlusconi Italian media tycoon and politician (1936–2023)
Francesco Nuti Italian actor (1955–2023)
John Romita Sr. American comic book artist (1930–2023)
Treat Williams American actor (1951–2023)
Philip Baker Hall American actor (1931–2022)
Phil Bennett British Lions & Wales international rugby union player (1948–2022)
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Sylvia Miles American actress (1924–2019)
Jon Hiseman English drummer and sound engineer (1944–2018)
Fernando Brant Brazilian journalist, poet, and composer (born 1946)
Teresita Barajuen Spanish Roman Catholic nun
Jason Leffler American racing driver (1975-2013)
Hector Bianciotti Argentine-born French author
Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen German psychoanalyst
Medin Zhega Albanian footballer and manager
Elinor Ostrom American political economist (1933–2012)

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Every June 12 on record

  1. 910 Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.

    Battle during the Hungarian invasions of Europe

    The first Battle of Lechfeld, fought on 12 June 910, was an important victory by a Hungarian army over the combined forces of East Francia and Swabia (Alamannia) under the nominal command of Louis the Child. 53 mi) south of Augsburg, the Lechfeld is the floodplain that lies along the river Lech. At this time the Grand Prince of the Hungarians was Zoltán, but there is no record of him taking part in the battle.

  2. 1206 The Ghurid general Qutb ud-Din Aibak founds the Delhi Sultanate.

    Late 8th-century–1215 Iranian dynasty from Ghor, modern Afghanistan

    The Ghurid dynasty was a culturally Persianate dynasty of eastern Iranian Tajik origin, which ruled from the 8th-century in the region of Ghor, and became an Empire from 1175 to 1215. The Ghurids were centered in the hills of the Ghor region in the present-day central Afghanistan, where they initially started out as local chiefs. They gradually converted to Sunni Islam after the conquest of Ghor by the Ghaznavid ruler Mahmud of Ghazni in 1011.

  3. 1240 At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis.

    King of France from 1226 to 1270

    Louis IX, also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is widely recognized as the most distinguished of the Direct Capetians. Following the death of his father, Louis VIII, he was crowned in Reims at the age of 12.

  4. 1381 Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels assemble at Blackheath, just outside London.

    1381 uprising in England

    The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Uprising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381. The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, and instability within the local leadership of London. The revolt heavily influenced the course of the Hundred Years' War by deterring later Parliaments from raising additional taxes to pay for military campaigns in France.

  5. 1418 Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Parisians slaughter sympathizers of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, along with all prisoners, foreign bankers, and students and faculty of the College of Navarre.

    French dynastic war from 1407 to 1435

    The Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War was a conflict between two cadet branches of the French royal family: the House of Orléans and the House of Burgundy from 1407 to 1435. It began during a lull in the Hundred Years' War against the English and overlapped with the Western Schism of the papacy.

  6. 1429 Hundred Years' War: On the second day of the Battle of Jargeau, 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.
  7. 1550 The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
  8. 1643 The Westminster Assembly is convened by the Parliament of England, without the assent of Charles I, in order to restructure the Church of England.
  9. 1653 First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins, lasting until the following day.
  10. 1665 Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City.
  11. 1758 French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, commences.
  12. 1772 French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men are killed by Māori in New Zealand.
  13. 1775 American War of Independence: 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.
  14. 1776 The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
  15. 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
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  1. 1813 Capture of USRC Surveyor.
  2. 1817 The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais.
  3. 1821 Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
  4. 1830 Beginning of the Invasion of Algiers: Thirty-four thousand French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
  5. 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 position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
  6. 1898 Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
  7. 1899 New Richmond tornado: The ninth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
  8. 1900 The Reichstag approves new legislation continuing Germany's naval expansion program, providing for construction of 38 battleships over a 20-year period. Germany's fleet would be the largest in the world.
  9. 1914 Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
  10. 1921 Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
  11. 1935 A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War.
  12. 1939 Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
  13. 1939 The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
  14. 1940 World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
  15. 1942 Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

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