06-13-2006, 05:51 AM
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June 13th
1777 ~ Marquis de Lafayette arrived in America to help train its army.
1865 ~ Birthday of William Butler Yeats, Poet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1923.
1892 ~ Birthday of Basil Rathbone, Actor.
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.
1981 ~ A teen-ager fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth during a parade in London.
1982 ~ Fahd became King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
1995 ~ French president Jacques Chirac announced the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
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