Nelson Mandela Sentenced, Long Live Saul Alinsky, O.J. Simpson

On this day: June 12

Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday (1942)

ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa (1964)

The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule (1987)

b: David Rockefeller (1915); d: Saul Alinsky (1972), Philip Vera Cruz (1994), Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman (1994)

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