TODAY IN HISTORY

Todayis Saturday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2021. There are 202 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On June 12, 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.î On this date:

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

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

In 1981, major league baseball players began a 49day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation.

In 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 held liable in a civil action.)

Today’s Birthdays: Sportscaster Marv Albert is 80. Actor Timothy Busfield is 64. Rapper Grandmaster Dee (Whodini) is 59. Actor Jason Mewes is 47. Blues musician Kenny Wayne Shepherd is 44.