Today is Friday, June 13, the 165th day of 2008. There are 201 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Friday, June 13, the 165th day of 2008. There are 201 days left in the year. On this date in 1966, the Supreme Court issues its landmark Miranda v. Arizona decision, ruling that criminal suspects have to be informed of their constitutional right to consult with an attorney and to remain silent before being questioned by police.

In 1886, King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowns in Lake Starnberg. In 1927, aviation hero Charles Lindbergh is honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City. In 1935, James Braddock claims the title of world heavyweight boxing champion from Max Baer in a 15-round fight in Long Island City, N.Y. In 1944, Germany begins launching flying-bomb attacks against Britain during World War II. In 1957, the Mayflower II, a replica of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620, arrives at Plymouth, Mass., after a nearly two-month journey from England. 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 excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America’s involvement in Vietnam. In 1981, a scare occurs during a parade in London when a teenager fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II. In 1983, the U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, becomes the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crosses the orbit of Neptune. In 1996, the 81-day-old Freemen standoff ends as 16 remaining members of the anti-government group surrender to the FBI and leave their Montana ranch. In 1998, civil rights leaders and politicians call for an end to racial violence as hundreds of mourners gather in Jasper, Texas, for the funeral of James Byrd Jr., a black man who was brutally killed by white supremacists. Also, President Clinton visits Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore., where two students were killed and 22 others wounded by a student gunman the previous month. In 2003, U.S. forces kill 27 Iraqi fighters after the Iraqis attack an American tank patrol north of Baghdad; Israel broadens its campaign against Palestinian militants, saying it would strike political as well as military leaders who target Israel with terrorism; hundreds of pro-cleric militants and security forces in Tehran clash with Iranians throughout the capital.

June 13, 1983: Employees of the General Electric Mahoning Glass plant in Niles set up a picket line to protest the injury of a worker who was assigned to a job for which she was not qualified.

The Air Force will spend $4.2 million to build a new 3,800-foot runway at Youngstown Municipal Airport for special Air Force training.

U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel Bell tells graduates of Mount Union College that the Reagan administration hopes to help foster an improved education climate in the United States.

June 13, 1968: Officials from 10 school districts in northern Columbiana County and southern Mahoning County meet to discuss cooperation in providing vocational school programs to their students.

Atty. Robert F. Doolittle of Cleveland, vice chairman of the Ohio Board of Regents, tells more than 950 men and women at Stambaugh Auditorium that they have a special distinction in being members of the first class to graduate from Youngstown State University. The class is also the largest to graduate since the school was founded 60 years ago.

Two area youths given alternate appointments to the West Point Military Academy, Richard Barkett of Girard and Percy Squire of Youngstown, are told they are eligible to attend the academy.

June 13, 1958: Harry Dean, 62, of Milton Street, Warren, is shot dead in a gunbattle with a Warren patrolman after Dean wounded his wife and another Warren policeman, Rudy March.

Two cattle rustlers are in jail after stealing a 1,435-pound bull from the barn of Amish patriarch Neil I. Hershberger near Chardon.

Youngstown Bishop Emmet M. Walsh names Msgr. Louis Kazmirski dean of Mahoning County clergy. He is pastor of St. Casimir Church, Youngstown.

June 13, 1933: Fred A. LaBelle resigns as a director of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District “until such time” as an investigation into district operations that is being conducted by the state auditing department and a grand jury is completed.

Youngstown pays about $23,000 to its wage-earning employees, but salaried employees are still waiting for their May 20 and June 5 pays.

Albert Alcroft of the Youngstown Country Club clips off a 71 in the district P.G.A. competition at the Shaker Heights Country Club, good enough for a third-place tie.