This Day in Failure: June 12
1997: The U.S. Treasury unveils a new $50 bill designed to be more counterfeit resistant.
1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside Simpson’s Los Angeles home.
1897: An 8.8 magnitude earthquake in northern India triggers deadly landslides and waves, killing more than 1,542 people, including nearly 600 who lose their lives to a landslide in Cherrapunji.
1812: Napoleon’s invasion of Russia begins.