Saturday, June 13
1865
Nobel Prize-winning poet-playwright William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland.
1525
German theologian Martin Luther married former nun Katharina von Bora.
1842
Queen Victoria became the first British monarch to ride on a train, traveling from Slough Railway Station to Paddington in 25 minutes.
1886
King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg.
1927
Aviation hero Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
1935
James Braddock claimed the title of world heavyweight boxing champion from Max Baer in a 15-round fight in Queens, New York. “Becky Sharp,” the first movie photographed in “three-strip” Technicolor, opened in New York.
1942
The first of two four-man Nazi sabotage teams arrived in the United States during World War II. (The eight were arrested after one of them went to U.S. authorities; six of the saboteurs were executed.)
1957
The Mayflower II, a replica of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620, arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts, after a nearly two-month journey from England.
1966
The Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional right to consult with an attorney and to remain silent.
What was the outcome of Miranda’s second trial?
1971
The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America’s involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967 that had been leaked to the paper by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg.
1981
A scare occurred during a parade in London when a teenager fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
1983
The U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune.
1996
The 81-day-old Freemen standoff ended as 16 remaining members of the anti-government group surrendered to the FBI and left their Montana ranch.
2005
A jury in Santa Maria, California, acquitted Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch. The Supreme Court warned prosecutors to use care in striking minorities from juries, siding with black murder defendants in Texas and California who contended their juries had been unfairly stacked with whites. The U.S. Senate apologized for blocking anti-lynching legislation in the early 20th century, when mob violence against blacks was commonplace.
2010
Gary Faulkner, a Colorado construction worker, was detained in Pakistan while on a one-man mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden (Faulkner was released 10 days later). “Memphis,” the rhythm ‘n’ blues musical set in the American South in the 1950s, won four Tony Awards, including best musical; “Red,” about painter Mark Rothko, won best play and five other honors. Jimmy Dean, a country music legend and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, died in Richmond, Virginia, at age 81. The final “Annie” (formerly “Little Orphan Annie”) comic strip ran in fewer than 20 newspapers, ending with a cliffhanger.
2014
The Internal Revenue Service told Congress it had lost a trove of emails to and from Lois Lerner, a central figure in the agency’s tea party controversy, sparking outrage from congressional investigators. (The inspector general’s office is in the process of trying to recover more than 6,000 of Lerner’s lost emails that were later found on old backup tapes.) The Los Angeles Kings won the Stanley Cup for the second time in three years with a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers in Game 5. Hall of Fame football coach Chuck Noll, 82, died in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.
Source: The Associated Press