Today in History:Wednesday, June12, 2013

历史上的今天：2013年6月12日，星期三

June 12th, 1987 In the then divided city of Berlin, President Ronald Reagan makes a Cold War challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall.” More than two years later, the Berlin Wall falls, as communism collapses across Eastern Europe.

1963, Civil rights activist Medgar Evers is gunned down in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. White supremacist Byron de la Beckwith is charged with murdering Evers, but he's not convicted until a third trial in 1994. Beckwith then receives a life sentence and dies behind bars in 2001.

1994, O.J. Simpson's ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman are murdered in Los Angeles. Simpson is later acquitted of the murders in a high-profile criminal trial. But the former football star is ordered to pay millions in damages to the victims' families in a separate civil trial.

1978, In New York City, David Berkowitz gets 25 years to life in prison for each of the six “Son of Sam” killings that terrified the Big Apple.

And 1939, You know to me this is just like an anniversary myself, because twenty-five years ago yesterday I pitched my first baseball game in Boston, for the Boston Red Sox.

Baseball great Babe Ruth is on hand as the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.

Today in History, June 12th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.