iJunoon Archives |2014 | June

Today In History

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

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

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The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unco...
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Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.

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Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beck...
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Pope Pius Xii Canonises Dominic Savio

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

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Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). 1,180 Jews are led to the city's ol...
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Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.