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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_12" title="June 12">June 12</a></b>: First day of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavuot" title="Shavuot">Shavuot</a></b> (Judaism, 2024); <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dia_dos_Namorados" title="Dia dos Namorados">Dia dos Namorados</a></b></i> in Brazil; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_Day" title="Loving Day">Loving Day</a></b> in the United States (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967" title="1967">1967</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1798" title="1798">1798</a> – Following the successful <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Malta" title="French invasion of Malta">French invasion of Malta</a></b>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Hospitaller" title="Knights Hospitaller">Knights Hospitaller</a> surrendered Malta to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a>, initiating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_occupation_of_Malta" title="French occupation of Malta">two years of occupation</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1864" title="1864">1864</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a> general <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a> pulled his troops out of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cold_Harbor" title="Battle of Cold Harbor">Battle of Cold Harbor</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover_County,_Virginia" title="Hanover County, Virginia">Hanover County, Virginia</a>, ending one of the bloodiest, most lopsided battles in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1914" title="1914">1914</a> – As part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>'s policies of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing" title="Ethnic cleansing">ethnic cleansing</a>, Turkish irregulars began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Phocaea" title="Massacre of Phocaea">a six-day massacre</a></b> in the predominantly Greek town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocaea" title="Phocaea">Phocaea</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954" title="1954">1954</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Savio" title="Dominic Savio">Dominic Savio</a></b>, who was 14 years old at his death in 1857, was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization" title="Canonization">canonized</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII" title="Pope Pius XII">Pope Pius XII</a>, making him one of the youngest non-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_martyr" title="Christian martyr">martyred</a> saints in the Catholic Church.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994" title="1994">1994</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777" title="Boeing 777">Boeing 777</a></b>, the world's largest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinjet" title="Twinjet">twinjet</a>, made its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_flight" title="Maiden flight">maiden flight</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelfl%C3%A6d" title="Æthelflæd">Æthelflæd</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 918); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Cooper_(general)" title="Samuel Cooper (general)">Samuel Cooper</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1798); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A9nie_Brazier" title="Eugénie Brazier">Eugénie Brazier</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1895); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorad_Petrovi%C4%87" title="Milorad Petrović">Milorad Petrović</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1981)</p>
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