Today’s Highlight in History June 12, 2024.
Highlight in History: On June 12, 2016, a gunman attacked the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, leaving 49 dead and 53 wounded. The shooter, Omar Mateen, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group before being killed by police.
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On this date:
- In 1630, John Winthrop arrived at the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- In 1776, Virginia adopted a Declaration of Rights.
- In 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday.
- In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi.
- In 1964, Nelson Mandela and seven others were sentenced to life in prison for sabotage against apartheid.
- In 1967, the Supreme Court struck down laws banning interracial marriage.
- In 1978, David Berkowitz was sentenced for the “Son of Sam” killings.
- In 1987, President Reagan urged Soviet leader Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”
- In 1991, Boris Yeltsin was elected president of Russia.
- In 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered.
- In 2004, Ronald Reagan’s body was sealed in his presidential library.
- In 2020, Rayshard Brooks was killed by police in Atlanta after a struggle.
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