On This Day:
Friday June 13, 2014 This is the 164th day of the year, with 201 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: golf hole dimensions According to the official rules of golf, a golf hole must be 4.25 inches in diameter and at least 4 inches deep.
Holidays Feast day of St. Antony of Padua, St. Felicula, St. Aquilina, and St. Triphyllius.
Lisbon: St. Antony of Padua Feast Day.
Events 1777 - The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American colonies to help in their rebellion against Britain.
1888 - Congress created the Department of Labor.
1898 - The Yukon Territory entered the confederation of Canada.
1900 - China's Boxer Rebellion targeting foreigners, as well as Chinese Christians, erupted into full-scale violence.
1944 - The first flying bomb was dropped on London by Germany in World War II.
1966 - The Supreme Court issued its landmark Miranda v. Arizona decision, ruling that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police.
1967 - President Lyndon Johnson appointed U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of a retiring Supreme Court judge, making him the first African-American in the high court.
1971 - The New York Times began publishing the "Pentagon Papers," a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam.
1979 - President Jimmy Carter proposed a Superfund to clean up hazardous waste.
1983 - After more than a decade in space, Pioneer 10, the world's first outer-planetary probe, left the solar system.
1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blamed recklessness by Exxon Corporation and Capt. Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the nation's worst oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
2000 - Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi pardoned Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2005 - A jury in Santa Maria, California acquitted Michael Jackson on charges of child molestation.
Births 40 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general.
1865 - William Butler Yeats, Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet and dramatist.
1892 - Basil Rathbone (born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone), English actor born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
1903 - Red (Harold) Grange, pro and college football Hall of Famer:
1915 - Don Budge, American tennis champion.
1953 - Tim Allen (born Timothy Allen Dick), American comedian and actor.
Deaths 323 B.C.E. - Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia.
1951 - Ben Chifley (born Joseph Benedict Chifley), Australian politician and sixteenth Prime Minister of Australia.
1986 - Benny Goodman, American bandleader.
1993 - Deke Slayton (born Donald Kent Slayton), one of the original "Mercury Seven" NASA astronauts.
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