Two African-American students were going to be enrolled at the University under a Federal Court order.

In June 1963, Alabama Gov. George Wallace refused to allow two black students to enter the University of Alabama forcing President Kennedy to use the National Guard to ensure the safety of the students. On June 11, President Kennedy made the decision to give a televised evening speech announcing his civil rights bill proposal.

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In 1993, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled unanimously that hate crime laws are not “constitutionally and morally unsound” ¹. 

Specifically, in the case of Wisconsin v. Mitchell, the Court upheld a Wisconsin hate crime statute that allowed for longer prison sentences if a criminal intentionally selected their victim based on factors such as race, religion, color, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, or ancestry ². 

This landmark decision clarified that enhanced penalties for bias-motivated crimes do not violate a defendant’s First Amendment rights ¹. 

The case involved Todd Mitchell, who encouraged a group to attack a white teenager based on his race ¹. 

The Court’s ruling affirmed the constitutionality of such laws, recognizing the importance of addressing hate crimes and protecting vulnerable communities ¹.

For the reasons listed in wiki, the Court reversed the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision, and remanded the case to a lower court for final proceedings.^[1]

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1346 – Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.

1509 – King Henry VIII married his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon.

1770 – Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia when he ran aground.

1776 – In America, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.

1798 – Napoleon Bonaparte took the island of Malta.

1880 – Jeanette Rankin was born. She became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.

1889 – The Washington Business High School opened in Washington, DC. It was the first school devoted to business in the U.S.

1895 – Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.

1910 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born. He was the French underwater explorer that invented the Aqua-Lung diving apparatus.

1912 – Silas Christoferson became the first pilot to take off from the roof of a hotel.

1915 – British troops took Cameroon in Africa.

1919 – Sir Barton became the first horse to capture the Triple Crown when he won the Belmont Stakes in New York City.

1927 – Charles A. Lindberg was presented the first Distinguished Flying Cross.

1930 – William Beebe dove to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda. He used a diving chamber called a bathysphere.

1934 – The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ended in failure.

1936 – The Presbyterian Church of America was formed in Philadelphia, PA.

1937 – Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a purge of Red Army generals.

1940 – The Italian Air Force bombed the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.

1942 – The U.S. and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviets in their effort in World War II.

1943 – During World War II, the Italian island of Pantelleria surrendered after a heavy air bombardment.

1947 – The U.S. government announced an end to sugar rationing.

1950 – Ben Hogan returned to tournament play after a near fatal car accident. He won the U.S. Open.

1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.

1963 – Alabama Gov. George Wallace allowed two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama.

1967 – Israel and Syria accepted a U.N. cease-fire.

1972 – Hank Aaron tied the National League record for 14 grand-slam home runs in a career.

1973 – After a ruling by the Justice Department of the State of Pennsylvania, women were licensed to box or wrestle.

1977 – In the Netherlands, a 19-day hostage situation came to an end when Dutch marines stormed a train and a school being held by South Moluccan extremist. Two hostages and the six terrorists were killed.

1981 – The first major league baseball player’s strike began. It would last for two months.

1982 – Steven Spielberg’s movie “E.T.” opened.

1987 – Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office.

1990 – The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law that would prohibit the desecration of the American Flag.

1991 – Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted. The eruption of ash and gas could be seen for more than 60 miles.

1993 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people who commit “hate crimes” could be sentenced to extra punishment. The court also ruled in favor of religious groups saying that they indeed had a constitutional right to sacrifice animals during worship services.

1993 – Steven Spielberg’s movie “Jurassic Park” opened.

1998 – Mitsubishi of America agreed to pay $34 million to end the largest sexual harassment case filed by the U.S. government. The federal lawsuit claimed that hundreds of women at a plant in Normal, IL, had endured groping and crude jokes from male workers.

1998 – Pakistan announced moratorium on nuclear testing and offered to talk with India over disputed Kashmir.

2010 – The FIFA World Cup opened in South Africa. It was the first time it was held in Africa.

On June 11, in 1776, the Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, named a five-member committee to draft a declaration of independence from Britain. Its members were Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert Livingston of New York

Adams suggested that Jefferson write the first draft. Adams and Franklin edited it and then gave their work to Congress on June 28 for review. It began:
“When, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the Causes which impel them to the Separation.”

Congress set the draft aside to debate a resolution that Richard Henry Lee had introduced on June 7. His motion called on Congress to declare independence, form foreign alliances and prepare a plan of colonial confederation.

Lee’s proposal read: “Resolved that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”

source – Politico