June 13
1900 - The Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Christians began in China.
1942 - A four-man Nazi sabotage team arrived on Long Island, New York, three days before a second four-man team landed in Florida. (All eight men were arrested after two members of the first group defected.)
1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Office of Strategic Services and the Office of War Information.
1966 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Miranda v. Arizona, ruled that police must advise suspects of their rights upon taking them into custody.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to become the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1971 - The New York Times began publishing the "Pentagon Papers," a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967 that had been leaked to the paper by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg.
1977 - James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recaptured following his escape three days earlier from a Tennessee prison.
1983 - The U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system.
1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blamed recklessness by Exxon Corp. and Capt. Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the nation's worst oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1996 - An 81-day standoff ended as 16 members of the anti-government Freemen group surrendered to the FBI and left their Montana ranch.
1997 - A jury voted unanimously to give Timothy McVeigh the death penalty for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2000 - The first meeting between Presidents Kim Jong Il of North Korea and Kim Dae Jung of South Korea occurred.
2004 - Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday with a 13,000-foot parachute jump over his presidential library in College Station, Texas.
2005 - Singer Michael Jackson was acquitted on charges of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch.
2009 - Incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of a disputed Iranian presidential vote, touching off weeks of mass demonstrations.
2012 - Federal prosecutors dropped all charges against former Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards after his corruption trial ended the previous month in a deadlocked jury.
2017 - A comatose Otto Warmbier, released by North Korea after more than 17 months in captivity, arrived in Cincinnati aboard a medevac flight; the 22-year-old college student, who had suffered severe brain damage, died six days later.
2017 - Rolling Stone magazine agreed to pay $1.65 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by a University of Virginia fraternity over a debunked story about a rape on campus.
2020 - Atlanta’s police chief resigned, hours after the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks; protests over the shooting grew turbulent, and the Wendy’s restaurant at the scene of the shooting was gutted by flames.
2021 - Israel’s parliament narrowly approved a new coalition government, ending the historic 12-year rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sending the polarizing leader into the opposition; Naftali Bennett, a former ally of Netanyahu, became prime minister after the 60-59 vote.
Birthdays
21 - DeVore Ledridge (actress)
22 - Daniella Perkins (actress)
32 - Aaron Johnson (actor)
36 - Ashley Olsen (actress)
36 - Mary-Kate Olsen (actress)
36 - Kat Dennings (actress)
37 - Raz B (singer)
39 - Sarah Schaub (actress)
41 - Chris Evans (actor)
44 - Ethan Embry (actor)
44 - Jason Michael Carroll (singer)
48 - Steve-O (actor/reality star)
50 - Susan Haynes (singer)
54 - Deniece Pearson (singer)
54 - David Gray (singer)
57 - Lisa Vidal (actress)
60 - Hannah Storm (TV anchor)
60 - Ally Sheedy (actress)
69 - Tim Allen (actor/comedian)
71 - Stellan Skarsgard (actor)
71 - Jonathan Hogan (actor)
71 - Richard Thomas (actor)
79 - Malcolm McDowell (actor)
90 - Bob McGrath (actor)
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Today in Sports History - June 13
1912 - Pitcher Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants got his 300th career win.
1948 - The New York Yankees officially retired Babe Ruth's #3 and sent it to the Hall of Fame.
1978 - The NHL Board of Governors unanimously agreed to a merger of the Cleveland Barons and the Minnesota North Stars.
1989 - The Detroit Pistons swept the Los Angeles Lakers to win the NBA championship.
1991 - In the first round of the U.S. Open golf tournament a spectator was killed when lightning struck.
1994 - Ryne Sandberg of the Chicago Cubs announces his retirement from baseball, citing poor play; he forfeits $15.7 million out of his $25 million contract.
1997 - The Chicago Bulls captured their fifth NBA championship in seven years with a 90-86 victory over the Utah Jazz in game six.
2002 - The Detroit Red Wings won their 10th Stanley Cup after defeating the Carolina Hurricanes in five games. After the game, Red Wings coach Scotty Bowman announced his retirement.
2012 - Matt Cain pitched the 22nd perfect game in major league history and the first for the San Francisco Giants, beating the Houston Astros 10-0.
2014 - The Los Angeles Kings defeat the New York Rangers in five games to win the Stanley Cup.
2017 - The Golden State Warriors defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers to win their second NBA championship in three years.
2019 - The Toronto Raptors defeat the Golden State Warriors to win their first NBA championship.
2021 - Novak Djokovic came all the way back after dropping the first two sets to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in the French Open final for his 19th Grand Slam title.
1900 - The Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Christians began in China.
1942 - A four-man Nazi sabotage team arrived on Long Island, New York, three days before a second four-man team landed in Florida. (All eight men were arrested after two members of the first group defected.)
1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Office of Strategic Services and the Office of War Information.
1966 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Miranda v. Arizona, ruled that police must advise suspects of their rights upon taking them into custody.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to become the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1971 - The New York Times began publishing the "Pentagon Papers," a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967 that had been leaked to the paper by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg.
1977 - James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recaptured following his escape three days earlier from a Tennessee prison.
1983 - The U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system.
1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blamed recklessness by Exxon Corp. and Capt. Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the nation's worst oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1996 - An 81-day standoff ended as 16 members of the anti-government Freemen group surrendered to the FBI and left their Montana ranch.
1997 - A jury voted unanimously to give Timothy McVeigh the death penalty for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2000 - The first meeting between Presidents Kim Jong Il of North Korea and Kim Dae Jung of South Korea occurred.
2004 - Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday with a 13,000-foot parachute jump over his presidential library in College Station, Texas.
2005 - Singer Michael Jackson was acquitted on charges of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch.
2009 - Incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of a disputed Iranian presidential vote, touching off weeks of mass demonstrations.
2012 - Federal prosecutors dropped all charges against former Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards after his corruption trial ended the previous month in a deadlocked jury.
2017 - A comatose Otto Warmbier, released by North Korea after more than 17 months in captivity, arrived in Cincinnati aboard a medevac flight; the 22-year-old college student, who had suffered severe brain damage, died six days later.
2017 - Rolling Stone magazine agreed to pay $1.65 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by a University of Virginia fraternity over a debunked story about a rape on campus.
2020 - Atlanta’s police chief resigned, hours after the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks; protests over the shooting grew turbulent, and the Wendy’s restaurant at the scene of the shooting was gutted by flames.
2021 - Israel’s parliament narrowly approved a new coalition government, ending the historic 12-year rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sending the polarizing leader into the opposition; Naftali Bennett, a former ally of Netanyahu, became prime minister after the 60-59 vote.
Birthdays
21 - DeVore Ledridge (actress)
22 - Daniella Perkins (actress)
32 - Aaron Johnson (actor)
36 - Ashley Olsen (actress)
36 - Mary-Kate Olsen (actress)
36 - Kat Dennings (actress)
37 - Raz B (singer)
39 - Sarah Schaub (actress)
41 - Chris Evans (actor)
44 - Ethan Embry (actor)
44 - Jason Michael Carroll (singer)
48 - Steve-O (actor/reality star)
50 - Susan Haynes (singer)
54 - Deniece Pearson (singer)
54 - David Gray (singer)
57 - Lisa Vidal (actress)
60 - Hannah Storm (TV anchor)
60 - Ally Sheedy (actress)
69 - Tim Allen (actor/comedian)
71 - Stellan Skarsgard (actor)
71 - Jonathan Hogan (actor)
71 - Richard Thomas (actor)
79 - Malcolm McDowell (actor)
90 - Bob McGrath (actor)
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Today in Sports History - June 13
1912 - Pitcher Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants got his 300th career win.
1948 - The New York Yankees officially retired Babe Ruth's #3 and sent it to the Hall of Fame.
1978 - The NHL Board of Governors unanimously agreed to a merger of the Cleveland Barons and the Minnesota North Stars.
1989 - The Detroit Pistons swept the Los Angeles Lakers to win the NBA championship.
1991 - In the first round of the U.S. Open golf tournament a spectator was killed when lightning struck.
1994 - Ryne Sandberg of the Chicago Cubs announces his retirement from baseball, citing poor play; he forfeits $15.7 million out of his $25 million contract.
1997 - The Chicago Bulls captured their fifth NBA championship in seven years with a 90-86 victory over the Utah Jazz in game six.
2002 - The Detroit Red Wings won their 10th Stanley Cup after defeating the Carolina Hurricanes in five games. After the game, Red Wings coach Scotty Bowman announced his retirement.
2012 - Matt Cain pitched the 22nd perfect game in major league history and the first for the San Francisco Giants, beating the Houston Astros 10-0.
2014 - The Los Angeles Kings defeat the New York Rangers in five games to win the Stanley Cup.
2017 - The Golden State Warriors defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers to win their second NBA championship in three years.
2019 - The Toronto Raptors defeat the Golden State Warriors to win their first NBA championship.
2021 - Novak Djokovic came all the way back after dropping the first two sets to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in the French Open final for his 19th Grand Slam title.
