Today in American History - June 12th
Events
1630 - Puritan fleet docks at Massachusetts Bay colony.1764 - Massachusetts House of Representatives organizes the Committees of Correspondence in response to the Sugar Act.
1775 - Massachusetts Governor General Gage declares martial law and declares all armed colonists traitors.
1839 - First baseball game played.
1931 - The Untouchables of the Chicago police force arrest Al Capone.
1978 - David Burkowitz 'Son of Sam' receives life sentences for each of his six murders in New York.
Births
1915 - David Rockefeller, banker.
1926 - George Herbert Walker Bush, President of the United States.
