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June 11, 1990: The Albert Lea Port Authority voted unanimously to loan $100,000 to ALMCO Inc. and the board of directors of the Albert Lea Industrial Developmental Corp. voted to match the Port Authority loan. ALMCO used the funds to buy another product line.

June 12, 1970: A Stop N’ Go food store opened up at East Main Street and Garfield Avenue. It was the 10th Stop N’ Go in southern Minnesota.

 

National

2001: Timothy McVeigh, 33, was executed by injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.

June 12, 1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home. (O.J. Simpson was later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial but was eventually held liable in a civil action.)

1972: During the Vietnam War, an Associated Press photographer took a picture of a screaming 9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc (fahn thee kihm fook), as she ran naked and severely burned from the scene of a South Vietnamese napalm attack.

1968: Authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

1963: President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at eliminating wage disparities based on gender.

1954: During the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch berated Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., asking, “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

June 11, 1776: The Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence calling for freedom from Britain.

1692: The first execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts took place as Bridget Bishop was hanged.