Today in History: June 12, 49 people killed in Pulse nightclub shooting

In the modern day is Thursday June the rd day of There are days left in the year Currently in history On June a gunman opened fire at Pulse a gay nightclub in Orlando Florida leaving people dead and wounded in what was then the deadliest mass shooting in U S history the gunman Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group during a three-hour standoff before being killed in a shootout with police Also on this date In the Baseball Hall of Fame was dedicated in Cooperstown New York Related Articles Sen Paul slams White House for immaturity after picnic snub Kim Kardashian seems to part means with Trump slams inhumane ICE raids Female athletes appeal landmark NCAA settlement saying it violates federal antidiscrimination law Jury convicts Harvey Weinstein of top charge in the retrial of his landmark MeToo sex crimes affair As feds resume apprentice loan collections states try to catch borrowers before they sink In Anne Frank a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam received a diary for her th birthday less than a month before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis In civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson Mississippi In Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison where he died in In eight South African anti-apartheid activists including Nelson Mandela were sentenced to life in prison for committing acts of sabotage against South Africa apartheid administration In the U S Supreme Court in Loving v Virginia unanimously struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages ruling that such laws violated the Fourteenth Amendment In David Berkowitz was sentenced to years to life in prison for each of the six Son of Sam killings committed in New York City over the previous two years In President Ronald Reagan during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin exhorted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down this wall In Russians went to the polls for their first-ever presidential polling which resulted in achievement for Boris Yeltsin In Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were killed outside Simpson s Los Angeles home O J Simpson Nicole Brown Simpson s ex-husband was later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial but was eventually held liable in a civil action This day s Birthdays Actor Sonia Manzano is Actor-director Timothy Busfield is Olympic track gold medalist Gwen Torrence is Actor Rick Hoffman is Actor-comedian Finesse Mitchell is Actor Jason Mewes is Blues musician Kenny Wayne Shepherd is Actor Timothy Simons is Singer-songwriter Robyn is Model Adriana Lima is Actor Dave Franco is Country musician Chris Young is