June 12, 2022
QUOTE
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
--Anne Frank
BIRTHDAYS
1916 – Irwin Allen, Director and producer
1924 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust
1930 – Jim Nabors, Actor and singer
IN MEMORY
1963 – Medgar Evers, Soldier and activist
2002 – Bill Blass, Fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Limited
2003 – Gregory Peck, Actor and political activist
2019 – Sylvia Miles, Actress
IN ON THIS DAY
1665 – Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City.
1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1963 – NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
1990 – Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.