Today in History - History - June 12th

1964Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa

1923Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC

1942Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)

1981Larry Holmes TKOs Leon Spinks in 3 for WBC heavyweight boxing title

193034th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen CC Minn

1942Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples

191630th US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beats Louise Raymond (6-0 6-1)

1673Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral

1957Stan Musial plays in 823rd game (new NL consecutive-game streak)

1981"Raiders Of The Lost Ark" starring Harrison Ford premieres

1924George H. W. Bush, Milton MA, 43 US Vice President (R, 1981-89) and 41st US President (R, 1989-93)

1929Anne Frank, Frankfurt Germany, Dutch Jewish Nazi victim/diarist (Diary of Anne Frank)

1999Actor and film director David Arquette (27) weds "Friends" actress Courteney Cox (34) at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, California

1927Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi (53) weds Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali

1733King of Prussia Frederick the Great (21) weds duchess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (18) at Schloss Salzdahlum in Wolfenbüttel, Germany

2009Tennis ace Boris Becker (41) weds model Sharlely Kerssenberg in St Moritz, Switzerland

1970Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood (22) weds Jenny Boyd (23)

1949Religious leader Jim Jones (18) weds nurse Marceline Baldwin

1997Rapper and actor Snoop Dogg (25) weds high school sweetheart Shante Taylor at The Ritz Carlton Hotel in Marina Del Rey, California

1994Astronaut Neil Armstrong marries 2nd wife Carol Held Knight

2012Henry Hill Jr., American mobster and FBI informant, dies from a heart condition at 69

2003Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)