Today In History

Sat., June 12, 1999

In 1963: Rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot at his home in Jackson, Miss.

In 1967: The Supreme Court struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.

In 1978: David Berkowitz was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of the six “Son of Sam” killings that had terrified New Yorkers.

In 1987: President Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”

In 1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were killed outside her Los Angeles home. (O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the killings, but later lost a civil suit.)

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