DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Monday, June 13, the 164th day of 2022. There are 201 days left in the year. On this date in:
1865: Nobel Prize-winning poet-playwright William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland.
1942: A four-man Nazi sabotage team arrived on Long Island, New York, three days before a second four-man team landed in Florida. (All eight men were arrested after two members of the first group defected.)
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.
1967: President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Solicitor-general Thurgood Marshall to become the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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.
1977: James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recaptured following his escape three days earlier from a Tennessee prison.
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.
1997: A jury voted unanimously to give Timothy Mcveigh the death penalty for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. The Chicago Bulls captured their fifth NBA title in seven years.
2005: A jury in Santa Maria, California, acquitted Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch.
2016: A day after the Orlando, Florida, nightclub shooting rampage that claimed 49 victims, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton offered drastically different proposals for stemming the threat of terrorism and gun violence; Trump focused heavily on the nation’s immigration system (even though the shooter was U.S. born) and redoubled his call for temporarily banning Muslims from the United States, while Clinton said that as president she would prioritize stopping “lonewolf”attackersandreiteratedher call for banning assault weapons.
Actor Bob Mcgrath (“Sesame Street”) is 90. Actor Malcolm Mcdowell is 79. Actor Stellan Skarsgard is 71. Actor Richard Thomas is 71. Comedian Tim Allen is 69. Actor Ally Sheedy is 60. TV anchor Hannah Storm is 60. Singer David Gray is 54. Singer Deniece Pearson of Five Star is 54. Musician Soren Rasted (Aqua) is 53. Actor-singer Jamie Walters is 53. Actor Steve-o
(“Jackass”) is 48. Actor Ethan Embry (“Can’t Hardly Wait,” “That Thing You Do!”) is 44. Actor Chris Evans (“The Fantastic Four”) is 41. Actor Sarah Schaub (“Promised Land”) is 39. Actor Kat Dennings (“2 Broke Girls”) is 36. Actors Ashley and Mary Kate Olsen
are 36. Actor Aaron Taylor-johnson
(“Kick-ass” films) is 32.