June 12

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1665	England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).	Saturday Looks Good to Me	When You Got to New York	Every Night
2	1775	American Revolution: 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.	Boris	Pardon?	New Album
3	1939	Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.	Cyclops	Cyclops	Cyclops
4	1939	The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.	...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead	The Best	Worlds Apart
5	1942	Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.	The Moody Blues	Dear Diary	On the Threshold of a Dream
6	1964	Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.	Articles of Faith	Prison	Complete Vol. 1: 1981-1983
7	1967	The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.	The Four Tops	Baby I Need Your Loving	Four Tops
8	1978	David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.	Elliott Smith	Son of Sam	Figure 8

(Historical facts about June 12 are from Wikipedia.)