ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

June 12

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John Cleese (below) condemns UKTV for taking down the “don’t mention the war” episode of his hit 1970s sitcom over “racial slurs”.

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America’s Donald Trump becomes the first US President to meet a North Korean leader when he and Kim Jong-un hold a summit in Singapore.

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A terrorist attack at the gay Pulse club in Orlando, Florida, by 29-year-old gunman Omar Mateen, leaves 49 people dead.

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The tournament kicks off in Brazil, but England will end up finishing last in their group and return home without winning a game.

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The actor, star of films such as Roman Holiday and The Omen, dies aged 87 at his LA home.

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Man Utd manager Alex Ferguson is in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List after winning the treble with the club.

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27 years ago… OJ Simpson a suspect

The US actor and NFL star (right) becomes a suspect after ex-wife

Nicole and waiter Ron Goldman are found stabbed to death in LA. He would be acquitted of their murders.

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40 years ago… Raiders released

Steven Spielberg’s Raiders Of The Lost Ark, starring Harrison Ford, debuts in cinemas.

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57 years ago… Mandela jailed

Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment for committing sabotage against South Africa’s apartheid government.

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59 years ago… Alcatraz escape

Three inmates escape from the island prison in San Francisco Bay on an inflatable raft and disappear.

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Anne Frank (left) turns 13 and receives a diary which she uses to record the life of her Jewish family in occupied Holland. She would die three years later in a Nazi concentration camp.

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204 years ago… First bike

In Mannheim, Germany, inventor Karl Drais takes his first ride on a “dandy horse” – the nickname for his new twowheeled machine reckoned to be the first form of bicycle.

1 year ago… Fawlty Towers row 3 years ago… Summit first 5 years ago… Nightclub shooting 7 years ago… World Cup woe 18 years ago… Gregory Peck dies 22 years ago… Fergie knighted 79 years ago… Famous birthday gift