What happened on 12 June?

10 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1987 Tear down this wall speech Ronald Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate calls on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall'.
2. 1964 Mandela imprisoned (Rivonia Trial) Nelson Mandela and other ANC leaders sentenced to life imprisonment at the Rivonia Trial.
3. 1859 Lord Palmerston's second premiership Palmerston keeps Britain out of the American Civil War and dies in office at eighty, still prime minister.
4. 1381 John Ball preaches at Blackheath Sprung from the Archbishop's prison by the Kentish rebels, the hedge-priest John Ball gives the great sermon of the English radical tradition to the host camped above London: 'When
5. 1560 Battle of Okehazama Young Oda Nobunaga ambushes and kills Imagawa Yoshimoto in pouring rain; launches him onto the national stage.
6. 1837 Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph First commercial telegraph; ran along the Great Western Railway.
7. 1967 Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court strikes down state bans on interracial marriage; final dismantling of legal segregation in private life.
8. 1963 The murder of Medgar Evers Hours after President Kennedy's first televised civil rights address, Mississippi's NAACP field secretary is shot in the back in his own driveway, his wife and children inside. His
9. 1701 Act of Settlement 1701 Statute restricting throne to Protestant heirs of Sophia of Hanover; sets up the Hanoverian succession of 1714.
10. 1667 Raid on the Medway De Ruyter's Dutch fleet sails up the Medway to Chatham dockyard, burns the English fleet at anchor and tows away the flagship Royal Charles — the Royal Navy's greatest humiliation,