June 13: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. In 1789, General George Washington was served a new dessert, ice cream, by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton.
2. In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted in China.
3. In 1966 , the Supreme Court ruled that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police in Miranda v. Arizona.
4. In 1967, Thurgood Marshall is appointed to the Supreme Court.
5. In 1979, the Sioux Indians are awarded $105 million in compensation for the seizure of their Black Hills in South Dakota by the United States in 1877.
6. In 1981, a London teen-ager fired six-blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II during a parade.
7. In 1983, the unmanned U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, which had already been in space for 11 years, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system.
8. In 1988, a federal jury found the Liggett Group, a cigarette manufacturer, liable in the lung-cancer death of Rose Cipollone.
9. In 1996, an 81-day armed stand-off in Montana, the longest federal siege in history, ended when 16 members of the anti-government Freemen group surrendered to the FBI.
10. In 2004, the former president, George H.W. Bush, celebrates his 80th birthday with a parachute jump over his presidential library in Texas.
11. Famous Birthdays: James C. Maxwell, scientist; William Butler Yeats, Irish poet; Don Budge, tennis champion; Richard Thomas, actor; Michel Jazy, track.

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