06-13-2013, 05:16 AM
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June 13th
1865 ~ Birthday of William Butler Yeats, Poet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1923.
1944 ~ Germany launched the first V1 “Buzz Bomb” attack on England.
1966 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them (Miranda v. Arizona).
1967 ~ Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated as the first black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1970 ~ "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' last #1 song.
1985 ~ Birthday of Lela Star, Porn Actress.
1986 ~ Death of Benny Goodman, the ''King of Swing,'.
1995 ~ French president Jacques Chirac announced the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
1998 ~ Death of Reg Smythe, British comic artist (Andy Capp)
2005 ~ A jury acquitted Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch.
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