iJunoon Archives |2014 | June

David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.

The fast food restaurant chain Popeyes is founded in Arabi, Louisiana.

The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.

Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.

Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.

Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.

Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.