Today is Sunday, June 13, the 165th day of 2004. There are 201 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Sunday, June 13, the 165th day of 2004. There are 201 days left in the year. On this date in 1966, the Supreme Court issues its landmark Miranda decision, ruling that criminal suspects have to be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police.
In 1888, Congress creates the Department of Labor. In 1900, China's Boxer Rebellion targeting foreigners, as well as Chinese Christians, erupts into full-scale violence. In 1927, aviation hero Charles Lindbergh is honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the Office of War Information, and appoints radio news commentator Elmer Davis to be its head. In 1944, Germany begins launching flying-bomb attacks against Britain during World War II. In 1967, President Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1971, The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam. In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., is recaptured following his escape three days earlier from a Tennessee prison. In 1983, the U.S. space probe Pioneer Ten, launched in 1972, becomes the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crosses the orbit of Neptune. In 1993, Canada's Progressive Conservative Party chooses Defense Minister Kim Campbell to succeed Brian Mulroney as prime minister; she is the first woman to hold the post.
June 13, 1979: Undercover state policeman Albert Izzo, 32, is shot and killed during a drug raid in New Castle. Police are searching for two suspects.
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum proposes a bill that would force Americans to conserve energy rather than asking them to cut back voluntarily. The bill would prohibit the sale of cars that get low gas mileage and would reduce federal aid to states where there are a high number of speeders.
Motorcycles driven by Pallbearers lead the funeral procession for James Blevins, president of the Warren Chapter of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, and more than 100 motorcycles join the rear of the cortege from Roberts Memorial Home in Warren to a Vienna Township cemetery. Blevins was killed when his motorcycle was run off the road by a passing car in Bristol Township.
June 13, 1964: An estimated 500 to 800 workmen protesting the arrest of 30 fellow employees on gambling charges stage a brief work stoppage at the General Motors Corp. Chevrolet assembly plant in Parma. The protest began after Parma police, aided by plant guards, went into two cafeterias at the plant and arrested the poker players.
Sen. Barry Goldwater's delegate total for the Republican National Convention continues to swell, even in the face of Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton's entry into the race. Goldwater is just 81 votes short of what he would need for a first-ballot nomination.
The Most Rev. Orestes P. Chornock, bishop of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Diocese of America, comes to Youngstown to participate in the dedication of the social hall at St. Michael's American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church at Steel and Third streets on Youngstown's West Side.
June 13, 1954: If the National Guard in Youngstown doesn't add 57 men and six officers by July 18, the area will lose $8 million worth of anti-aircraft protection equipment slated for the area. Youngstown, Alliance, Kent and Warren are on what military authorities call the Great Circle Route, the likely route enemy air attackers would take in an effort to cripple America's Midwest industrial might.
Two Warren youths and one from Columbiana are named to key roles at Buckeye Boys State at Camp Perry. Jack Moore is secretary of the Federalist Party and George J. Swartz is secretary of the Nationalist Party, while Lloyd E. Mackall of Columbiana is editor-in-chief of the Boys State paper.
June 13, 1929: Commencement exercises for 41 students of the Youngstown "Y" Colleges of Commerce, Law and Liberal Arts are held at the YMCA auditorium. There are 28 men and 13 women in the class.
A 25-year-old Warren women and two of her young daughters are in Warren City Hospital after the woman attempted to scald the children with hot olive oil and end her life by taking poison.
A 31-year-old Marion Avenue woman is sentenced by Judge Frank L. Baldwin in juvenile court to serve three days in county jail after she was found guilty of failing to send her 15-year-old daughter to school. The girl missed school two-thirds of the time.
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