In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi.
In 1964, antiapartheid activist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” in a speech delivered in divided Berlin.
In 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson, exwife of professional football playe…