Today in History: June 13, first Pentagon Papers excerpts published
In current times is Friday June the th day of There are days left in the year In the modern day in history On June The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers a top secret scrutiny of America s involvement in Vietnam since that had been leaked to the paper by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg Also on this date In during World War II a four-man Nazi sabotage crew arrived by submarine on Long Island New York three days before a second four-man crew landed in Florida All eight men were arrested within weeks after two members of the first group defected Related Articles U S Sen Alex Padilla is forcefully removed from Kristi Noem s news conference on immigration raids and handcuffed Trump moves to merge wildland firefighting into single force despite ex-officials warning of chaos Massive Google Cloud outage disrupts popular internet services Nationwide protests against immigration raids escalate leading to arrests and curfews Homeland Measure secretary pledges to carry on with Trump s immigration crackdown In the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v Arizona that criminal defendants had to be informed of their constitutional rights to remain silent and consult with an attorney In President Lyndon B Johnson nominated Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall to become the first non-white justice on the U S Supreme Court In the U S space probe Pioneer launched in became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune In the -day-old Freemen standoff in Montana ended as the remaining members of the anti-government group left their ranch and surrendered to the FBI In the first meeting between leaders of North Korea and South Korea since the Korean War began as South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung met North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang In the White House revealed it had conclusive evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad s governing body had used chemical weapons against opposition forces seeking to overthrow him In the committee researching the Jan attack on the U S Capitol was explained that Donald Trump s closest campaign advisers top regime executives and even his family were dismantling his false alleges of polling fraud ahead of the insurrection but the defeated president was becoming detached from reality and clinging to outlandish theories to stay in power This day s Birthdays Actor Malcolm McDowell is Former U N Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is Actor Stellan Skarsg rd is Actor Richard Thomas is Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Weaver is Actor-comedian Tim Allen is Actor Ally Sheedy is Sportscaster Hannah Storm is Musician Rivers Cuomo Weezer is Actor-comedian Steve-O is Actor Ethan Embry is Actor Chris Evans is Actor Kat Dennings is Fashion designers and former actors Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen are Actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson is Actor Kodi Smit-McPhee is