Hump Day Horrors

 

Quite a few bits of history from today are on the morbid side.

1942: Anne Frank receives a diary for her 13th birthday.  A beautiful gift in itself, but knowing what she endured as she filled those pages, and what an important testament it is now....

1963: Civil rights leader, Medgar Evers, is assassinated by a white supremacist.  He had been instrumental in getting evidence and witnesses for the Emmett Till murder case.  Unlike Till's killers, Evers' was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

1982: The largest disarmament rally in America takes place in Central Park, with more than one million people protesting nuclear weapons and the Cold War arms race.

1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are murdered, fatally stabbed multiple times.

2016: Mass shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Miami, where 49 people were killed and dozens more injured.  A predominantly gay club, it appeared as both a hate crime and an act of terrorism.  The shooter had called 911 to pledge his allegiance to ISIS.

Being Pride Month, that last one is especially important, because the danger and victimization continues to exist.  Racism and Antisemitism are also pervasive to this day.