{"id":20410,"date":"2015-06-12T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=20410"},"modified":"2015-06-12T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:40:16","slug":"today-in-history-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=20410","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?attachment_id=20411\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20411\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20411\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0612reaganB-209x300.jpg?resize=209%2C300\" alt=\"0612reaganB\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>On June 12, 1987, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, President Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to &#8220;tear down this wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On this date in:<br \/>\n1776 Virginia&#8217;s colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.<br \/>\n1898 Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain.<br \/>\n1937 The Soviet Union under Josef Stalin executed eight army leaders during a purge.<br \/>\n1939 The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y.<br \/>\n1963 Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Miss.<br \/>\n1971 President Richard M. Nixon&#8217;s daughter Tricia and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden.<br \/>\n1978 David Berkowitz was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of the six &#8220;Son of Sam&#8221; .44-caliber killings in New York City.<br \/>\n1994 Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home. (Her former husband, football Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson, was later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial, but held liable in a civil action.)<br \/>\n2002 The Los Angeles Lakers won a third straight NBA title and Shaquille O&#8217;Neal was named MVP of the finals for the third straight year.<br \/>\n2008 A deeply divided Supreme Court ruled that foreign detainees held for years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba had the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their indefinite imprisonment without charges.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Birthdays:<br \/>\nFormer President George H.W. Bush turns 91 years old today.<br \/>\nDavid Rockefeller, Banker, 100<br \/>\nVic Damone, Singer, 87<br \/>\nJim Nabors, Actor-singer (&#8220;Gomer Pyle, USMC&#8221;), 85<br \/>\nMarv Albert, Sportscaster, 74<br \/>\nBun E. Carlos, Rock musician (Cheap Trick), 64<br \/>\nTimothy Busfield, Actor (&#8220;thirtysomething&#8221;), 58<br \/>\nPaula Marshall, Actress, 51<br \/>\nFrances O&#8217;Connor, Actress, 48<br \/>\nHideki Matsui, Baseball player, 41<br \/>\nJazz musician Chick Corea turns 74 years old today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press On June 12, 1987, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, President Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[6265,106,6272,6271,6273,6267,6266,6269,6270,6206,6268,103],"class_list":["post-20410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-berlin-wall","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-jim-nabors","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-marv-albert","tag-medgar-evers","tag-national-baseball-hall-of-fame","tag-nicole-brown-simpson","tag-ronald-goldman","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-son-of-sam","tag-tiger-media-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20413,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20410\/revisions\/20413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}