What happend on 13th June

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1977

Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

1971

Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers. [1]

1970

"The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song.

1967

Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1966

The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

1953

Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy

1952

Catalina affair, a Swedish Douglas DC-3 was shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.

1944

World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.

1942

The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda.

1935

In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and became the heavyweight champion of the world.