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Old 06-11-2011, 08:02 PM
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June 12th

1924 ~ Birthday of George Bush senior, 41st President of the U.S.

1942 ~ Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

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.

1975 ~ Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was convicted on electoral corruption charges.

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.

1991 ~ Boris Yeltsin was elected the first President of the Russian Federation.

1994 ~ Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California.

2003 ~ Death of Gregory Peck, Actor.
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