June12th-Anne gets a birthday diary, Medgar Evers, Loving v. Va., "tear down this wall"

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1939 The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y.


1963 Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Miss.


1967 The Supreme Court struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.


1971 President Richard M. Nixon's daughter Tricia and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html

1942
Anne Frank received a diary for her birthday

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory

On this day in 1987, in one of his most famous Cold War speeches, President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the repressive Communist era in a divided Germany.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do