Today In History

Today is Tuesday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2018. There are 202 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 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.)

ON THIS DATE

› 1665: England installed a municipal government in New York, formerly the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, and appointed its first mayor, Thomas Willett.

› 1776: Virginia’s colonial legislature adopted a Declaration of Rights.

› 1898: Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain.

› 1939: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.

› 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.

› 1967: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, unanimously struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.

› 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.”

› 1994: Boeing’s new 777 jetliner went on its first test flight.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Former President George H.W. Bush is 94. Songwriter Richard M. Sherman is 90. Jazz musician Chick Corea is 77. Sportscaster Marv Albert is 77. Country singer-musician Junior Brown is 66. Singer-songwriter Rocky Burnette is 65. Actor Timothy Busfield is 61. Singer Meredith Brooks is 60. Actress Jenilee Harrison is 60. Rock musician John Linnell (They Might Be Giants) is 59. Actor John Enos is 56. Rapper Grandmaster Dee (Whodini) is

56. Actor Rick Hoffman is 48. Actor-comedian Finesse Mitchell is 46. Actor Mel Rodriguez is

45. Actor Jason Mewes is

44. Actor Michael Muhney is 43. Blues musician Kenny Wayne Shepherd is 41. Actor Timothy Simons is 40. Actor Wil Horneff is 39. Singer Robyn is 39. Country singer Chris Young is 33. Actor Luke Youngblood is

32. Rap group MC Jay Are is 29. Actor Ryan Malgarini is 26.