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Anniversaries: June 12

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Events

In 1964 Nelson Mandela and seven others were sentenced to life imprisonment on a charge of conspiracy to overthrow the South African Government by sabotage.

Births

Harriet Martineau, writer, 1802; Charles Kingsley, author and clergyman, 1819; Johanna Spyri, author of Heidi (1880), 1827; Leon Goossens, oboist, 1897; Anne Frank, diarist whose tragic account of life under the Nazis has been translated into more than 60 languages, 1929.

Deaths

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John Ireland, composer, 1962; Karl von Frisch, zoologist who found that bees communicate the whereabouts of food by dancing, 1982.