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Friday, 12 June 2026
1992 Futurist/author Isaac Asimov dies at age 72 of heart and kidney failure in New York 
1992 Isaac Asimov science fiction writer (I Robot), dies at 72
1992 The Goderich Exeter Railway commences operations over the former CN line between Stratford Junction and Goderich and from Clinton Junction to Centralia in Ontario
1992 Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
1992 Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72
1993 Branch Navy Hospital Adak responds to crash of civilian Chinese airline providing lifesaving treatment and medical evacuation of 89 injured passengers. Only one passenger out of 265 passengers died.
1993 Divya Bharati, "Baby Doll" Indian Bollywood actress (Diwana), dies at 19 by mysteriously falling from her husband's apartment.
1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Rwanda/1st female PM in Africa, assassinated.
1995 Vieno J Sukselainen, PM of Finland (1959-61), dies.
1996 Greer Garson, actress (Goodbye Mr Chips), dies at 92.
1997 Jack Kent Cooke, NFL owner (Wash Redskins), dies at 84.
2005 inaugural 13th root calculation of a 200-digit number, computed by the Frenchman Alexis Lemaire.
2005 Rainier III of Monaco dies, succeeded by his son Albert II
2007 Severe clashes between two rival factions erupted in Parachinar, a tribal area of Pakistan bordering the famous Tora Bora Heights
2009 A magnitude 6.3 earquake rikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing at lea 253
2012 US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities
2012 The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declares the independence of Azawad from Mali
2013 22 people are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing at an election campaign tent in Baquba, Iraq.
2014 Viktor Orbán's Fidesz is re-elected Prime Minister of Hungary.
2017 Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Florida for talks with US President Donald Trump
2017 In response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town, the U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage U.S.-Russia ties
2018 A semi-truck collides with a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos ice hockey junior team in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 16 and injuring 13 people
2020 Japanese Prime Minister ShinzÃ
 Abe announces state of emergency in seven prefectures and a nearly $1 trillion stimulus package as coronavirus COVID-19 cases climb
2020 The United States designates the Russian Imperial Movement as a terrorist organization and imposes sanctions on its leaders; it is the inaugural white supremacist group the U.S. has designated as a terrorist organization.
2021 Jeff Bezos , worth $177 billion, tops Forbes Billionaires list of 2755 people, including new entry Kim Kardashian
2024 Peter Pellegrini is elected President of Slovakia in the second round of the Slovak presidential election
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