June 12
1630 - Englishman John Winthrop, leading a fleet carrying Puritan refugees, arrived at the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he became its governor.
1776 - Virginia's colonial legislature adopted a Declaration of Rights.
1898 - Emilio Aguinaldo, head of the Philippine nationalists, proclaimed independence from Spain.
1942 - Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received a diary for her 13th birthday, less than a month before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis.
1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001.)
1964 - South African Black nationalist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison along with seven other people, including Walter Sisulu, for committing sabotage against the apartheid regime (all were eventually released, Mandela in 1990).
1967 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, unanimously struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
1978 - David Berkowitz was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of the six "Son of Sam" .44-caliber killings that terrified New Yorkers.
1987 - President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, exhorted Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."
1991 - Russians went to the polls to elect Boris N. Yeltsin president of their republic.
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home. (O.J. Simpson was later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial but was eventually held liable in a civil action.)
2004 - Former President Ronald Reagan's body was sealed inside a tomb at his presidential library in Simi Valley, California, following a week of mourning and remembrance by world leaders and regular Americans.
2013 - The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith Alexander, vigorously defended once-secret surveillance programs before the Senate Intelligence Committee, saying that collecting Americans' phone records and tapping into their Internet activity had disrupted dozens of terrorist attacks.
2013 - Ariel Castro, 52, accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for about a decade, pleaded not guilty to hundreds of rape and kidnapping charges. (Castro was later sentenced to life plus 1,000 years and soon after committed suicide in prison.)
2016 - A gunman opened fire at the Pulse nightclub, a gay establishment in Orlando, Florida, leaving 49 people dead and 53 wounded; Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group during a three-hour standoff before being killed in a shootout with police.
2018 - After a five-hour summit in Singapore, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a joint statement agreeing to work toward a denuclearized Korean Peninsula, although the timeline and tactics were left unclear; Trump declared that he and Kim had developed "a very special bond."
2020 - Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by one of the two white officers who responded after he was found asleep in his car in the drive-thru lane of a Wendy's restaurant in Atlanta; police body camera video showed Brooks struggling with the officers and grabbing a Taser from one of them, firing it as he fled.
2022 - Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said they had uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider a criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Birthdays
31 - Ryan Malgarini (actor)
32 - Jessie Reyez (singer)
34 - Evelyn Gonzalez (actress)
35 - Cody Horn (actress)
37 - Luke Youngblood (actor)
38 - Chris Young (singer)
38 - Dave Franco (actor)
38 - Kendra Wilkinson (model/reality star)
42 - Adriana Lima (model)
44 - Robyn (singer)
44 - Wil Horneff (actor)
45 - Timothy Simons (actor)
48 - Michael Muhney (actor)
49 - Jason Mewes (actor)
50 - Mel Rodriguez (actor)
51 - Finesse Mitchell (comedian)
52 - Mark Henry (professional wrestler)
53 - Rick Hoffman (actor)
59 - Paula Marshall (actress)
61 - Paul Schulze (actor)
61 - John Enos (actor)
65 - Jenilee Harrison (actress)
65 - Meredith Brooks (singer)
66 - Timothy Busfield (actor)
73 - Sonia Manzano (actress)
74 - Roger Aaron Brown (actor)
82 - Roy Harper (singer)
82 - Marv Albert (sportscaster)
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Today in Sports History - June 12
1839 - Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the legend.
1880 - John Lee Richmond pitched baseball's first perfect game.
1939 - The Baseball Hall of Fame opened to the public in Cooperstown, New York.
1967 - The Washington Senators beat the Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 22 innings. The game lasted six hours, 38 minutes and ended at 2:43 a.m. and caused the league to adopt a curfew stating that no inning may start after 1:00 a.m.
1981 - Major league baseball players began a 49 day strike. The issue was free-agent compensation.
1984 - The Boston Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in seven games to win the NBA championship.
1991 - The Chicago Bulls won their first NBA championship, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in five games.
1997 - Interleague play began in Major League Baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of keeping American and National League teams separated until the World Series. The first interleague game saw the San Francisco Giants defeat the Texas Rangers, 4-3.
2000 - Quarterback Steve Young (San Francisco 49ers) retired from the NFL.
2002 - The Los Angeles Lakers sweep the New Jersey Nets to win a third consecutive NBA championship.
2009 - The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Detroit Red Wings in seven games to win the Stanley Cup.
2011 - The Dallas Mavericks defeat the Miami Heat in six games to win their first NBA championship.
2013 - NASCAR driver Jason Leffler, 37, died after an accident during a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway in New Jersey.
2016 - The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the San Jose Sharks in six games to win the Stanley Cup.
2017 - The Golden State Warriors defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games to win the NBA championship.
2019 - The St. Louis Blues defeat the Boston Bruins in seven games to win their first Stanley Cup.
1630 - Englishman John Winthrop, leading a fleet carrying Puritan refugees, arrived at the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he became its governor.
1776 - Virginia's colonial legislature adopted a Declaration of Rights.
1898 - Emilio Aguinaldo, head of the Philippine nationalists, proclaimed independence from Spain.
1942 - Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received a diary for her 13th birthday, less than a month before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis.
1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001.)
1964 - South African Black nationalist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison along with seven other people, including Walter Sisulu, for committing sabotage against the apartheid regime (all were eventually released, Mandela in 1990).
1967 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, unanimously struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
1978 - David Berkowitz was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of the six "Son of Sam" .44-caliber killings that terrified New Yorkers.
1987 - President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, exhorted Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."
1991 - Russians went to the polls to elect Boris N. Yeltsin president of their republic.
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home. (O.J. Simpson was later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial but was eventually held liable in a civil action.)
2004 - Former President Ronald Reagan's body was sealed inside a tomb at his presidential library in Simi Valley, California, following a week of mourning and remembrance by world leaders and regular Americans.
2013 - The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith Alexander, vigorously defended once-secret surveillance programs before the Senate Intelligence Committee, saying that collecting Americans' phone records and tapping into their Internet activity had disrupted dozens of terrorist attacks.
2013 - Ariel Castro, 52, accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for about a decade, pleaded not guilty to hundreds of rape and kidnapping charges. (Castro was later sentenced to life plus 1,000 years and soon after committed suicide in prison.)
2016 - A gunman opened fire at the Pulse nightclub, a gay establishment in Orlando, Florida, leaving 49 people dead and 53 wounded; Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group during a three-hour standoff before being killed in a shootout with police.
2018 - After a five-hour summit in Singapore, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a joint statement agreeing to work toward a denuclearized Korean Peninsula, although the timeline and tactics were left unclear; Trump declared that he and Kim had developed "a very special bond."
2020 - Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by one of the two white officers who responded after he was found asleep in his car in the drive-thru lane of a Wendy's restaurant in Atlanta; police body camera video showed Brooks struggling with the officers and grabbing a Taser from one of them, firing it as he fled.
2022 - Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said they had uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider a criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Birthdays
31 - Ryan Malgarini (actor)
32 - Jessie Reyez (singer)
34 - Evelyn Gonzalez (actress)
35 - Cody Horn (actress)
37 - Luke Youngblood (actor)
38 - Chris Young (singer)
38 - Dave Franco (actor)
38 - Kendra Wilkinson (model/reality star)
42 - Adriana Lima (model)
44 - Robyn (singer)
44 - Wil Horneff (actor)
45 - Timothy Simons (actor)
48 - Michael Muhney (actor)
49 - Jason Mewes (actor)
50 - Mel Rodriguez (actor)
51 - Finesse Mitchell (comedian)
52 - Mark Henry (professional wrestler)
53 - Rick Hoffman (actor)
59 - Paula Marshall (actress)
61 - Paul Schulze (actor)
61 - John Enos (actor)
65 - Jenilee Harrison (actress)
65 - Meredith Brooks (singer)
66 - Timothy Busfield (actor)
73 - Sonia Manzano (actress)
74 - Roger Aaron Brown (actor)
82 - Roy Harper (singer)
82 - Marv Albert (sportscaster)
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Today in Sports History - June 12
1839 - Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the legend.
1880 - John Lee Richmond pitched baseball's first perfect game.
1939 - The Baseball Hall of Fame opened to the public in Cooperstown, New York.
1967 - The Washington Senators beat the Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 22 innings. The game lasted six hours, 38 minutes and ended at 2:43 a.m. and caused the league to adopt a curfew stating that no inning may start after 1:00 a.m.
1981 - Major league baseball players began a 49 day strike. The issue was free-agent compensation.
1984 - The Boston Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in seven games to win the NBA championship.
1991 - The Chicago Bulls won their first NBA championship, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in five games.
1997 - Interleague play began in Major League Baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of keeping American and National League teams separated until the World Series. The first interleague game saw the San Francisco Giants defeat the Texas Rangers, 4-3.
2000 - Quarterback Steve Young (San Francisco 49ers) retired from the NFL.
2002 - The Los Angeles Lakers sweep the New Jersey Nets to win a third consecutive NBA championship.
2009 - The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Detroit Red Wings in seven games to win the Stanley Cup.
2011 - The Dallas Mavericks defeat the Miami Heat in six games to win their first NBA championship.
2013 - NASCAR driver Jason Leffler, 37, died after an accident during a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway in New Jersey.
2016 - The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the San Jose Sharks in six games to win the Stanley Cup.
2017 - The Golden State Warriors defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games to win the NBA championship.
2019 - The St. Louis Blues defeat the Boston Bruins in seven games to win their first Stanley Cup.
