Daily Almanac: June 12, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 6:16 a.m.
SET: 9:18 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 72 °F
LOW: 53 °F

Today is…:
• Ghost in the Machine Day
• Loving Day
• Superman Day

What Happened On This Day:
• 2016 Mass Shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida Kills 49 People. In what is now thought to be one of the deadliest incidents of violence against LGBTQ people in history, the shooting committed by 29-year old Omar Mateen is also the second deadliest terrorist attack on US soil since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• 1991 Boris Yeltsin becomes Russia’s first President. After the end of the Soviet Union, Yeltsin launched radical economic reforms that aimed at dismantling socialism and restore capitalism.
• 1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison. The South African anti-apartheid activist spent 27 years in prison. In 1993, he received the Nobel Peace Prize and one year later he became President of South Africa.

Births On This Day:

• 1924 George H. W. Bush
American politician, 41st President of the United States
• 1929 Anne Frank
German/Dutch author, Holocaust victim

Deaths On This Day:

• 1963 Medgar Evers
American civil rights activist
• 1980 Billy Butlin
South African/English businessman, founded Butlins