This Day In History (June 12)

1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

Tear down this wall' was almost cut from Reagan speech - Futurity

In 1963

civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37,

was shot and killed

outside his home

in Jackson, Mississippi,

by a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

In 1964,

South African black freedom fighter

Nelson Mandela was sentenced

to life in prison

for ‘committing sabotage’

against the racist white regime.

They let him out early

twenty-six years later.

Beautiful Pics of May Britt and Sammy Davis Jr. on Their Wedding ...

In 1967,

The United States Supreme Court

in Loving v. Virginia

declares all U.S. state laws

which prohibit interracial marriage

to be unconstitutional.

Medgar Evers

In 1987,

President Ronald Reagan visited

the divided city of Berlin

and exhorted the Soviets’ leader

Mikhail Gorbachev to

“tear down this wall.”

In 2016,

an American Muslim

opened fire

in Pulse,

a gay bar in Orlando, Florida.

He wounded fifty-three people

and killed forty-nine.

Before being shot dead

by police.



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