On this day …
June 12, 2017
- In 1550, the city of Helsinki, Finland (then a part of Sweden) was founded.
- In 1775, the British offered a pardon to all colonists in rebellion if they were to lay down their arms, with the notable exceptions of John Hancock and Samuel Adams.
- In 1939, the Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, N.Y.
- In 1963, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in front of his home in Jackson, Miss.
- In 1964, anti-apartheid activist (and future president) Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for alleged sabotage in South Africa.
- In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional.
- In 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered in front of the former’s home; football star O.J. Simpson was later charged.
- In 1997, Queen Elizabeth II reopened the Globe Theatre, a reproduction of Shakespeare’s famed stage, in London.
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