On this day, June 12

1630 Englishman John Winthrop, leading a fleet carrying Puritan refugees, arrived at the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he became its governor.

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, Miss. (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.)

2016 A gunman opened fire at the Pulse nightclub, a gay establishment in Orlando, Fla., 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.

Today’s birthdays: Songwriter Richard M. Sherman, 95. Sportscaster Marv Albert,

82. Singer Roy Harper, 82. Actor Roger

Lindsay Aaron Brown, 74. Actor Sonia Manzano,

73. Singer-songwriter Rocky Burnette, 70.

Actor Timothy Busfield, 66. Singer Meredith Brooks, 65. Actor Jenilee Harrison, 65.

Rock musician John Linnell (They Might Be Giants), 64. Actor John Enos, 61. Rapper Grandmaster Dee (Whodini), 61. Actor

Paul Schulze, 61. Actor Eamonn Walker,

61. Actor Paula Marshall, 59. Actor

Frances O’Connor, 56. Actor Rick Hoffman, 53. Actor-comedian Finesse Mitchell, 51. Actor Mel Rodriguez, 50. Actor Jason Mewes, 49. Actor Michael Muhney,

48. Blues musician Kenny Wayne Shepherd, 46. Actor Timothy Simons, 45. Actor

Wil Horneff, 44. Singer Robyn, 44. Rock singer-musician John Gourley (Portugal.

The Man), 42. Actor Dave Franco, 38.

Country singer Chris Young, 38.