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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.

12 June

🇮🇳 In India

1897 Possibly the most severe earthquake in history struck Assam, India. Shock waves were felt over an area size of Europe.

2001 The first successful launch of BRAHMOS missile took place.

2013 India’s government announced the end of its telegram services. The state-run telecommunications company sent its final telegram on July 14 ending 163 years of service.

2015 Nek Chand, creator of the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, died at age 90. He had begun the project on his own in 1958 and by 1975 it covered 13 acres.

🌎 Elsewhere

1929 Anne Frank, German-Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim, was born in Holland. She with her family hid from the Nazis in Holland during World War II. One of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch, literally, 'the back house').

1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison. The South African anti-apartheid activist spent 27 years in prison. In 1993, he received the Nobel Peace Prize and one year later he became President of South Africa.

1991 Boris Yeltsin becomes Russia's first President. After the end of the Soviet Union, Yeltsin launched radical economic reforms that aimed at dismantling socialism and restore capitalism.

⭐ Significance

The World Day Against Child Labour is an International Labour Organization-sanctioned holiday first launched in 2002 aiming to raise awareness and activism to prevent child labour.

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