Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 12: 1917 – King Constantine of Greece stepped down in favour of his son, Prince Alexander. 1935 – Bolivia and Paraguay signed a truce ending the Chaco War, a three-year dispute over the Chaco area. 1957 – U.S. band leader and saxophonist Jimmy Dorsey died. 1991 – Boris Yeltsin defeated Communist rivals in the first direct election to the presidency of the Russian republic. 2003 – Gr…
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