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 * 1942 - Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
 * 1964 - South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison.
 * 1978 - David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
 * 1987  - Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
 * 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.

The Chronicle of Ireland recorded a solar eclipse on June 29, 512 AD.