Symbols of law a legal system - a judge, gavel and scales representing jurisdiction.

The Miranda rights are established

Born on This Day

"Dune 2" Premiere At Le Grand Rex

Stellan Skarsgård

1951 -

Swedish actor and star of "Breaking the Waves," "Good Will Hunting," "Thor" and the "Dune" film series.

The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion - Cocktails

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

1986 -

Actresses and fashion designers who found early fame on TV's "Full House" and later co-founded the fashion label The Row.

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

1865 - 1939

Irish poet and a driving force of the Irish Literary Revival. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

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William Butler YeatsBettmann Archive

1944

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Nazi Germany launches the V-1 Flying Bomb, marking the first use of a cruise missile in warfare. Dubbed "buzz bombs," these pilotless terrors droned ominously over London, delivering destruction and dread in equal measure.

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Peasant army marches into London

During the Peasants’ Revolt, a large mob of English peasants led by Wat Tyler marches into London and begins burning and looting the city. Several government buildings were destroyed, prisoners were released, and a judge was beheaded along with several dozen other leading citizens. The Peasants’ Revolt had its origins in a severe manifestation of […]

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Lafayette arrives in South Carolina to serve alongside General Washington

On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French aristocrat, Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arrives in South Carolina with the intent to serve as General George Washington’s second-in-command. Silas Deane, during his service as the Continental Congress envoy to France, had, on December 7, 1776, struck an agreement with Johann de […]

Marquis de Lafayette.

Meriwether Lewis reaches the Great Falls

Having hurried ahead of the main body of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four men arrive at the Great Falls of the Missouri River, confirming that the explorers are headed in the right direction. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had set out on their expedition to the Pacific the previous year. They spent the winter […]

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Thomas Jefferson subpoenaed in Aaron Burr’s treason trial

President Thomas Jefferson receives a subpoena to testify in the treason trial of his former vice president, Aaron Burr, on June 13, 1807. In the subpoena, Burr asked Jefferson to produce documents that might exonerate him. Burr had already been politically and socially disgraced by killing former Treasury Secretary and Revolutionary-era hero Alexander Hamilton in […]

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Stanley Kubrick’s “Lolita” premieres in New York

Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s famously controversial novel Lolita has its New York premiere on June 13, 1962. Even its advertising posters pose the question: “How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” Four years earlier, Kubrick, director of the big-budget Roman epic Spartacus (1960), and his partner, producer James B. Harris, […]

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Thurgood Marshall nominated to Supreme Court

On June 13, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. On August 30, after a heated debate, the Senate confirmed Marshall’s nomination by a vote of 69 to 11. Two days later, he was sworn in […]

The New York Times publishes the “Pentagon Papers”

The New York Times begins publishing portions of the 47-volume Pentagon analysis of how the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia grew over a period of three decades. Daniel Ellsberg, a former Defense Department analyst who had become an antiwar activist, had stolen the documents. After unsuccessfully offering the documents to prominent opponents of the war […]

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Some of the papers from the archive of Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971

Pioneer 10 crosses the orbit of Neptune

After more than a decade in space, Pioneer 10, the world’s first outer-planetary probe, leaves the outer limits of the known solar system by crossing the orbit of Neptune, the system’s then farthest planet. The next day, it radioed back its first scientific data on interstellar space. On March 2, 1972, the NASA spacecraft was […]

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Jurors begin deliberations in Susan Polk trial

On June 13, 2006, jurors began deliberations in the trial of Susan Polk, 48, for the October 2002 murder of her psychotherapist husband Felix Polk, 70, in a poolside cottage at the couple’s Orinda, California, home. Felix was stabbed and cut 27 times and had suffered blunt force trauma to the head. Susan and Felix […]

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Otto Warmbier returns from North Korean prison in a coma

On June 13, 2017 Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old student who was taken prisoner in North Korea 17 months earlier, returned home to the United States in a comatose state. His return marked a warming of relations between the U.S. and the pariah state known for its extensive human-rights abuses, casting new attention on how North […]

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