On this date in history, June 13th:
In 323 B.C., Alexander the Great died of fever in Babylon at age 33.
In 1898, the Yukon Territory was formed.
In 1944, the first German V-1 buzz bomb hit London.
In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Miranda vs. Arizona, ruled that
police must inform all arrested people their constitutional rights
before questioning them.
In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African-American on the
U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1976, Arizona Republic investigative reporter Don Bolles died as a
result of injuries suffered when a bomb blew up his car 11 days
earlier. He had been working on an organized crime story at the time of
his death.
In 1977, James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.,
was captured in a Tennessee wilderness area after escaping from prison.
In 1983, the robot spacecraft Pioneer 10 became the first man-made
object to leave the solar system. It did so 11 years after it was
launched.
In 1993, Canada got its first woman prime minister when the ruling
Progressive Conservative Party elected Kim Campbell to head the party
and thus the country.
In 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of former football star O.J.
Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman were found stabbed to death
outside her condominium in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles.
(Simpson was charged with the murders and acquitted in a trial that
became a media sensation. A civil court later found him liable in a
wrongful-death lawsuit and, in an unrelated robbery case in Nevada, he
was convicted in 2008 and sentenced to 33 years in prison.)
In 1996, members of the Freemen militia surrendered, 10 days after the
FBI cut off electricity to their Montana compound. The standoff lasted
81 days.
In 2005, pop superstar Michael Jackson was acquitted by a California
jury on charges of child molestation.
In 2009, incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner in a
disputed Iranian presidential election, touching off widespread clashes
between protesters and police.
In 2011, the complete Pentagon Papers, a secret history of the Vietnam
War, were made public 40 years after the first leaks were published.
The excerpts leaked by Daniel Ellsberg led to a battle with the Nixon
administration and a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court
expanding freedom of the press.
In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that human genes cannot be
patented.
In 2014, the Los Angeles Kings won hockey's Stanley Cup with a 3-2
double-overtime victory over the New York Rangers in the fifth game of
their championship series.
Those born on this date include:
U.S. Army Gen. Winfield Scott in 1786
Irish poet/dramatist William Butler Yeats in 1865
British actor Basil Rathbone in 1892
British author Dorothy L. Sayers in 1893
Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi, winner of nine Olympic gold medals, in 1897
Mexican composer Carlos Chavez in 1899
football Hall of Fame member Harold Red Grange in 1903
radio-TV host Ralph Edwards in 1913
tennis Hall of Fame member Don Budge in 1915
comic actor Paul Lynde in 1926
Nobel economics laureate John Forbes Nash, subject of the book/movie A
Beautiful Mind, in 1928
Bulgarian-born artist Christo (born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff) in
1935 (age 80)
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 1944 (age 71)
actor Malcolm McDowell in 1943 (age 72)
actor Stellan Skarsgard in 1951 (age 64)
actor Richard Thomas in 1951 (age 64)
comedian Tim Allen in 1953 (age 62)
actor Ally Sheedy in 1962 (age 53) actor twins Ashley and Mary-Kate
Olsen in 1986 (age 29).
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Joe from MS talks about, The Drunken Scotsman- By Danno - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnlqTOsR0RA
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YouTube Richard from VA sent, So God Made a Cat - Not Paul Harvey... -
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmW7CPF1N4o
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Joe also sent, TRUST AND OBEY (With Lyrics) : Don Moen - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjWV_Kuxd2s
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Mike from NY wants us, because we should, listen to this again!
GOD BLESS AMERICAN VALUES THAT MADE THIS COUNTRY WHAT IT IS. "I would
rather die on my feet than live on my knees" is a strong epitaph, and
has as much merit now as it did then. What those men died for is again
at risk, but this time not from a foreign power.
Watch, listen, and be PROUD!! Share with your children and
grandchildren
..a good lesson in American history. Gave me
goosebumps
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/YaxGNQE5ZLA
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