This Day in History: June 12th

This Day in History: Virginia adopts George Mason's Declaration of Rights, which is almost a blueprint for Thomas Jefferson to later pen the now immortal Declaration of Independence, 1776; the Boys of Summer get a home as the Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York, 1939; a young girl receives a diary for her 13th birthday and uses it to write down her fears as she and her family hide from the Nazis during World War II, 1942; President Reagan goes against his advisers recommendations and speaks the words which brought down the Soviet Union: 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall...', six words which ended the Cold War and relegated Soviet Communism to the dustbin of history, 1987