Also on this day

1898: Yukon Territory is formed in Canada.

1865: Poet WB Yeats, pictured, is born.

1981: Teenager Marcus Sarjeant fires six blank shots at the Queen during Trooping the Colour.

with 5,000lbs (2,300kg) of ammonium nitrate and nitromethane, on the morning of April 19, 1995, and set the fuse. The building housed the Drug Enforcement and Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Agencies and secret services. It was also home to housing and social security workers, and a children’s daycare centre on the second floor. The explosion was devastating.

Suspicion in the media fell on Islamic fundamentalists as the World Trade Center had been targeted two years before. But the FBI was already on the trail of the real culprit. They recovered the rear axle of the van and traced it to Junction City, Kansas. Employees at the shop helped put together a composite drawing of the man who had rented the van. It was shown around town and identified as Mcveigh.

Later, while awaiting execution, he claimed the bombing was “morally equivalent” to US military actions against Iraq.

He was executed on June 11, 2001, choosing William Ernest Henley’s poem Invictus as his final statement.

Two other accomplices were also jailed.

Question: On this day in 1966 a historic US Supreme Court ruling found that suspects must know their rights before being questioned. What are these rights known as?

Last week I asked: What youth organisation was founded in London on June 6, 1844? YMCA