TODAY IN HISTORY

On June 12, 1630, Englishman John Winthrop, leading a fleet carrying Puritan refugees, arrived at the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

In 1898, Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain.

In 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.

In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

In 1964, South African black nationalist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison along with seven others people, including Walter Sisulu, for committing sabotage against the apartheid regime.

In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, unanimously struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.

In 1981,“Raiders of the Lost Ark,” directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, was first released.

In 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.”

In 1997, baseball began regular-season interleague play, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.

In 2016, an American-born Muslim opened fire at the Pulse nightclub, a gay establishment in Orlando, leaving 49 people dead and 53 wounded before being shot dead by police.