06-12-2005, 05:20 AM
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June 12th
1665 ~ England installed a government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
1897 ~ Birthday of Anthony Eden, U.K. Prime Minister.
1942 ~ Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1963 ~ Death of Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist.
1967 ~ The U.S.Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declared all state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1979 ~ Bryan Allen flew the man powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel.
1987 ~ Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1990 ~ The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declared its sovereignty.
1994 ~ Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson was acquitted of the killings, but held liable in a civil suit.
2003 ~ Death of Gregory Peck, Actor.
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