June 13

June 13th is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap yearss), with 201 days remaining.

Events:

1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda.
1966 - The Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall nominated as first African American justice in the Supreme Court.

Births:

823 - Charles the Bald, Roman emperor and king of the West Franks (+ 877)
1786 - Winfield Scott, American Civil War general
1865 - William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1923 (+ 1939)
1870 - Jules Bordet, physicist and microbiologist (+ 1961)
1887 - Bruno Frank, author (+ 1945)
1892 - Basil Rathbone, actor (+ 1967)
1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers, author (+ 1957)
1897 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (+ 1973)
1903 - Harold 'Red' Grange, football player (+ 1991)
1926 - Paul Lynde, actor (+ 1982)
1935 - Christo, artist, wrapper
1943 - Malcolm McDowell, actor
1986 - Mary-Kate Olsen, actress
1986 - Ashley Olsen, actress

Deaths:

1918 - Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov (AKA Grand Duke Michael), Tsar Mikhail II of Russia
1972 - CLyde McPhatter]], musician
1979 - Darla Hood, actress
1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia
1986 - Benny Goodman, musician
1987 - Geraldine Page, actress

Holidays and observances:

See Also:

June 12 - June 14 - May 13 - July 13 -- listing of all days