In memory of Anne Frank. Past June 12s: 1349: King Edward III bans football in London, orders archery practice. 1849: L. P. Haslett patents the gas mask. 1897: Carl Elsener patents a penknife, later to become the Swiss army knife. 1923: Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet above the ground, New York City. 1939: Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown New York. First inductees are Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson. 1964 Nelson Mandela is imprisoned— Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment for “sabotaging” South African government. 1967: The Supreme Court rules (in Loving v Virginia) that state laws against interracial marriage are unconstitutional. 1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and her male friend Ronald Goldman are savagely murdered in front of Simpson’s condominium complex in Brentwood, California. 2010: Chinese Buddhist monks and archaeologists reveal part of a skull believed to be Buddhism’s founder, Siddartha Gautama. 2012: Ending an extensive study on the wooly mammoth, scientists conclude that they were wiped out by multiple things, including climate change, human hunters, and shifting habitats.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:09:30 +0000
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