06-12-2006, 05:18 AM
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Location: Maryland
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June 12th
1897 ~ Birthday of Anthony Eden, British P.M.
1942 ~ Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1962 ~ Three prisoners escaped from Alcatraz prison.
1963 ~ Death of Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist.
1967 ~ In Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court 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.
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.
1997 ~ Major league baseball began interleague play.
2003 ~ Death of Gregory Peck, Actor.
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