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June 13th This Day in History

Notable Quotes, Events, Deaths & Births

Notable Events

1777 - The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American colonies to help in their rebellion against

Britain.

1888 - Congress created the Department of Labor.

1898 - The Yukon Territory entered the confederation of Canada.

1900 - China's Boxer Rebellion targeting foreigners, as well as Chinese Christians, erupted into full-scaleviolence.

1944 - The first flying bomb was dropped on London by Germany in World War II.

1966 - The Supreme Court issued its landmark Miranda v. Arizona decision, ruling that criminal

suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police.

1967 - President Lyndon Johnson appointed U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the

seat of a retiring Supreme Court judge, making him the first African-American in the high court.

1971 - The New York Times began publishing the "Pentagon Papers," a secret study of America's

involvement in Vietnam.

1979 - President Jimmy Carter proposed a Superfund to clean up hazardous waste.

1983 - After more than a decade in space, Pioneer 10, the world's first outer-planetary probe, left the

solar system.

1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blamed recklessness by Exxon Corporation and Capt. Joseph

Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the nation's worst oil spill to seek $15

billion in damages.

2000 - Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi pardoned Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried

to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

2005 - A jury in Santa Maria, California acquitted Michael Jackson on charges of child molestation.

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Notable Births

40 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general.

1865 - William Butler Yeats, Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet and

dramatist.

y Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hotby striking.

1892 - Basil Rathbone (born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone), English

actor born in Johannesburg, South Africa.

1903 - Red (Harold) Grange, pro and college football Hall of Famer:

1915 - Don Budge, American tennis champion.

1953 - Tim Allen (born Timothy Allen Dick), American comedian and actor.

Notable Deaths

323 B.C.E. - Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia.

Alexander died in the palace of

Nebuchadnezzar II, in Babylon at the age of 32

1951 - Ben Chifley (born Joseph Benedict Chifley),

Australian politician and sixteenth Prime Minister ofAustralia.

1986 - Benny Goodman, American bandleader.

1993 - Deke Slayton (born Donald Kent Slayton), one of the original "Mercury Seven" NASA astronauts.

Fact of the Day: Baseball Hall of Fame

The National Baseball Hall of Fame was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York, in 1939. The year 1939was chosen to celebrate the supposed centennial of baseball as it was then believed that Abner

Doubleday had developed the game at Cooperstown in 1839 - a story that was later discredited. Of the

25 immortals who had been elected to the Hall of Fame up to that point, 11 were still living; and all of

them journeyed to Cooperstown to attend the centennial celebration. Selections to the Hall of Fame are

made annually by two groups: the Baseball Writers' Association of America and the Baseball Hall of

Fame Committee on Baseball Veterans. More than 200 individuals have been inducted into the Hall of

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Fame and the first players chosen (in 1936) were Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Christy

Mathewson, and Walter Johnson.