^B{^#!16!12 June^N! National Day of the Philippines. 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.
^B{1088^B} William II suppressed a revolt in England led by Odo of Bayeux, Bishop of Rochester, who was supporting Robert Curthose. ^B{1667^B} The Dutch fleet under Admiral de Ruyter burned Sheerness, sailed up the River Medway, raided Chatham dockyard, and escaped with the royal barge, the Royal Charles; the nadir of English naval power. ^B{1683^B} The Rye House Plot, to assassinate King Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York, was discovered. ^B{1901^B} A Cuban convention making the country virtually a protectorate of the US was incorporated in the Cuban constitution as a condition of the withdrawal of US troops. ^B{1934^B} Political parties banned in Bulgaria. ^B{1964^B} Nelson Mandela and seven others were sentenced to life imprisonment for acts of sabotage in the Rivonia trial, Pretoria.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Harriet Martineau, English writer, ^B{1802^B}; Charles Kingsley, English novelist, ^B{1819^B}; Anthony Eden, Viscount Avon, British politician, ^B{1897^B}; George Bush, 41st president of the US, ^B{1924^B}; Anne Frank, Jewish Dutch diarist, ^B{1929^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}James, Duke of Berwick, English-born French general, ^B{1734^B}; William Collins, English poet, ^B{1759^B}; Thomas Arnold, English scholar and head of Rugby School, ^B{1842^B}; John Ireland, English composer, ^B{1962^B}; Billy Butlin, English vacation-camp entrepreneur, ^B{1980^B}; Marie Rambert, British ballet dancer and teacher, ^B{1982^B}.
