Saturday History
By Andrews McMeel Syndicate
Today is the 163rd day of 2021 and the 85th day of spring.
TODAY’S HISTORY:
— In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Miss.
— In 1964, anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
— In 1987, President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” in a speech delivered in divided Berlin.
— In 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of professional football player O.J. Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman were murdered in Los Angeles.
— In 2016, a gunman killed 49 people and injured 53 others at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), priest/historian/author; Uta Hagen (1919-2004), actress; George H.W. Bush (1924-2018), 41st U.S. president; Anne Frank (1929-1945), diarist/Holocaust victim; Jim Nabors (1930-2017), actor; Marv Albert (1941-), sportscaster; Chick Corea (1941-2021), musician; Hideki Matsui (1974-), baseball player; Dave Franco (1985-), actor; Blake Ross (1985-), software engineer.
TODAY’S FACT: Assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers’ brother, Charles Evers, was the first African American since Reconstruction to be elected mayor in Mississippi, in 1969.
TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1939, the Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, N.Y.
TODAY’S QUOTE: “Friendship is like a glass ornament; once it is broken, it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.” — Charles Kingsley
TODAY’S NUMBER: 28 — years the Berlin Wall stood separating East and West Berlin.
TODAY’S MOON: Between new moon (June 10) and first quarter moon (June 17).
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