Historical Events on June 12 (Part 2)

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• 2017 MLB Draft: JSerra Catholic HS, CA shortstop Royce Lewis first pick by Minnesota Twins

• 2018 AT&T's $85.4 billion takeover of Time Warner can go ahead according to US district court judge
• 2018 Battle for key Yemen port of Hudaydah begins with assault by Saudi backed pro-government forces against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels
• 2018 French photographer Jean-Claude Arnault, at center of Nobel Prize Committee scandal, charged with rape in Sweden

• 2019 Earliest evidence of humans smoking cannabis discovered in 2,500-year-old grave in Pamir Mountains, China, published in "Science Advances"
• 2019 Same-sex marriage approved by Ecuador's Constitutional Court in landmark ruling
• 2019 Stanley Cup Final, TD Garden, Boston, MA: St. Louis Blues beat Boston Bruins, 4-1 for a 4-3 series victory; first title in franchise history
• 2019 Violent protests in Hong Kong as tens of thousands of protesters block and try to storm government buildings to stop extradition law
• 2019 World’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s Government Pension Fund, worth $1 trillion, gets authorization to drop fossil fuel investments from Norway's government
• 2020 African American Rayshard Brooks shot dead in drive-through carpark in Atlanta leading to further protests at police violence and the resignation of city's police chief
• 2021 Danish star soccer midfielder Christian Eriksen suffers an on-field cardiac arrest during Euro 2020 game with Finland in Copenhagen; revived with a defibrillator; game controversially restarts with 1-0 Finland win
• 2022 75th Tony Awards: held live for 1st time since 2019 - Best New Musical “A Strange Loop”, Best New Play “The Lehman Trilogy” [1]
• 2023 At least 46 people, including 23 children, killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo at Lala displacement camp by militia group ‘Codeco’ [1]
• 2023 Boat carrying wedding guests overturns killing 106 with 144 rescued on the river Niger in Nigeria's north central Kwara State [1]
• 2023 MLB Philadelphia Phillies’ catcher J.T. Realmuto hits for the cycle, 1st player for team to do so since 2004, in 9-8 loss to Diamondbacks in Arizona
• 2024 Governor Ron DeSantis declares a state of emergency in southern Florida after torrential rains cause flash floods [1]

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