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• Today is Thursday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2014. There are 202 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 12, 1939, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.
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• On this date:
• In 1776, Virginia's colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.
• In 1898, Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain.
• In 1920, the Republican national convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Warren G. Harding for president on the tenth ballot; Calvin Coolidge was nominated for vice president.
• In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge was nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Republican national convention in Cleveland. (Coolidge had become president in 1923 upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding.)
• In 1942, Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received a diary for her 13th birthday, less than a month before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis.
• In 1956, the Flag of the United States Army was officially adopted under an executive order signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
• In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001.) One of Hollywood's most notoriously expensive productions, "Cleopatra," starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison, opened in New York.
• In 1964, South African black nationalist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison along with seven other people, including Walter Sisulu, for committing sabotage against the apartheid regime (all were eventually released, Mandela in 1990).
• In 1967, the Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
• In 1974, President Richard Nixon arrived in Cairo, Egypt, at the beginning of a

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