On June 12, 1991, Boris Yeltsin was elected as the first president of the Russian Republic, marking a significant step in the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

June 12, 1987, marked the day President Ronald Reagan famously challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall!' referring to the Berlin Wall.

On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia, declaring laws banning interracial marriage unconstitutional.