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.
1963
Civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
1964
South African Black nationalist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison along with seven other people.
1967
The U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, unanimously struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
1987
President Ronald Reagan exhorted Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”
2016
A gunman opened fire at the Pulse nightclub, a gay establishment in Orlando, Florida, leaving 49 people dead and 53 wounded..
Birthdays
Songwriter Richard M. Sherman is 95. Sportscaster Marv Albert is 82. Singer Roy Harper is 82. Actor Roger Aaron Brown is 74. Actor Sonia Manzano is 73. Actor Rick Hoffman is 53. Actor Dave Franco is 38.