TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT 1994

Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1630

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

1898

Philippine nationalists declared 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.

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.

1967

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

1978

David Berkowitz was sentenced to 25years to life in prison for each of the six “Son of Sam” .44-caliber killings that terrified New Yorkers.

1981

Major league baseball players began a 49-day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation. “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, was first released.

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.”