1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws that prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

1817 – The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais.

1936 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong demonstrates FM broadcasting to an audience of engineers at the FCC in Washington, DC.

2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.

1959 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.

1975 – Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.

 kurtster wrote:

equality should be a given, a starting point.
i dont mind some effort to address equity, especially when some were given such an unequal start. 

 black321 wrote: 
FYT

 Proclivities wrote:
There's apathy right, which most of us are guilty of...but the state of mind of someone who would be so threatened by another's simple attempt to find equity...that it would spark violence/murder? 

 Red_Dragon wrote:

1966 – March Against Fear: African-American civil rights activist James Meredith is wounded in an ambush by white sniper James Aubrey Norvell. Meredith and Norvell are photographed by Jack R. Thornell, whose photo will receive the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in Photography, the last one to be awarded in the category.

1944 – Commencement of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, with the execution of Operation Neptune—commonly referred to as D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel with about 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. By the end of the day, the Allies have landed on five invasion beaches and are pushing inland.

1942 – The United States Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway is a major turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II. All four Japanese fleet carriers taking part—Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū and Hiryū—are sunk, as is the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The American carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann are also sunk.

1892 – The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.

1989 – The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

1985 - Ferris Bueller takes a day off.

1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.

1968 – Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.

1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.