On This Day:
Thursday June 12, 2014 This is the 163rd day of the year, with 202 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: amino acids Amino acids are organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group. They are biochemical building blocks. Proteins, for example, are made up of various combinations of about 20 common amino acids encoded by the standard genetic code. More than 100 amino acids have been found in nature, but only the 20 are commonly used in protein synthesis and they are the same in all living organisms, from protozoa to plants and animals.
Holidays Feast day of St. Basilides, St. Eskil, St. Leo II, St. Odulf, St. Onuphrius, St. Ternan, St. Peter of Mount Athos, St. Antonia, St. John of Sahagun, and St. Paula Frassinetti.
Paraguay: Peace with Bolivia Day / Peace of Chaco Day.
Philippines: Independence Day.
Russia: Independence Day.
Brazil: Dia dos Namorados / Sweethearts' Day.
Events 1665 - England installed a municipal government in New York, formerly the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
1667 - The first successful human blood transfusion was performed, in France.
1776 - Virginia's legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.
1838 - The Iowa Territory was organized.
1839 - According to popular legend, which has since been discredited, Abner Doubleday created baseball.
1849 - The gas mask was patented by L. P. Haslett.
1898 - Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain after 300 years.
1939 - The National Baseball Hall of Fame was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.
1943 - The Alcan Highway, now known as the Alaska Highway, opened to traffic.
1967 - The Supreme Court struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
1981 - Major League Baseball players began a 49-day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin became the first popularly elected leader in the 1000-year history of Russia.
1994 - The bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were discovered outside her Brentwood, California condominium, and within days, actor/football legend O.J. Simpson was charged by police.
2004 - A 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
Births 1806 - John A. Roebling, German-born American civil engineer and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
1819 - Charles Kingsley, English novelist.
1924 - George Bush, 41st President of the United States of America (1989-1993).
1929 - Anne Frank, German Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim.
1941 - Chick Corea (born Armando Anthony Corea), American jazz pianist.
1977 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American blues musician.
Deaths 1963 - African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, shot by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith.
1994 - Ronald Goldman, American actor and model.
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of O.J. Simpson.
2002 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer.
2003 - Gregory Peck, American film actor.
2007 - Don Herbert, better known as "Mr. Wizard," television science educator and producer.
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