June 12<\/p>\n
1240 \u2013 At the instigation of King Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis.<\/p>\n
1429 \u2013 On the second day of the Battle of Jargeau, Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city.<\/p>\n
1775 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted. 1864 \u2013 Ulysses S. Grant gives Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.<\/p>\n 1898 \u2013 During the Spanish -American War, Philippine General Emilio Aguinaldo, recently returned from exile in Hong Kong, has Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista read the Philippines’ Declaration of Independence from Spain.<\/p>\n 1899 \u2013 An F5 force\u00a0 tornado strikes the city of New Richmond, Wisconsin, killing 117 people and injuring around 200 more.<\/p>\n 1939 \u2013 The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 During the invasion of France, American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan, Normandy, France.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 The film Cleopatra<\/em>, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released in US theaters.\u00a0 At the time, the most expensive film made.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 In the case of Loving v. Virginia, <\/em>the Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n 1987 \u2013 At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 After the fall of the Soviet Union, the parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the first democratically elected President of Russia.<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFOR) enters the province of Kosovo in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under terms of a previous peace treaty.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are murdered outside Simpson’s home in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 49 people are are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a nightclub catering to homosexuals in Orlando, Florida, by a moslem gunman who is killed in a gunfight with responding police.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison and dies a week later.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea hold the first meeting between leaders of their countries in Singapore.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 12 1240 \u2013 At the instigation of King Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis. 1429 \u2013 On the second day of the Battle of Jargeau, Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city. 1775 … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55912"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93521,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55912\/revisions\/93521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSection 13
\nThat a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.<\/em><\/p>\n