On June 13, 1892, actor Basil Rathbone, best known for his film portrayal of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, was born in Johannesburg.
In 1893 Dorothy Sayers, the writer behind the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, was born in Oxford, England.
In 1900 China’s Boxer Rebellion targeting foreigners as well as Chinese Christians erupted into full-scale violence.
In 1927 aviation hero Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York.
In 1944 Germany began launching flying-bomb attacks on Britain in World War II.
In 1965 religious philosopher Martin Buber, author of “I and Thou,” died in Jerusalem at 87.
In 1966 the Supreme Court issued its landmark Miranda decision, ruling that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police.
In 1971 The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America’s involvement in Vietnam.
In 1977 James Earl Ray, the assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recaptured following his escape three days earlier from a Tennessee prison.
In 1986 bandleader Benny Goodman, the clarinet-playing “King of Swing,” died in New York at 77.
In 1995 President Bill Clinton proposed a 10-year plan for balancing the federal budget, saying his proposal would cut spending by $1.1 trillion. Also, France announced it would abandon its 1992 moratorium on nuclear testing and conduct eight more tests.
In 1996 the 81-day-old Freemen standoff ended as 16 remaining members of the anti-government group surrendered to the FBI and left their Montana ranch. Also, the Supreme Court placed greater limits on congressional districts intentionally drawn to get more minorities elected to Congress.
In 1998 cartoonist Reg Smythe, the creator of “Andy Capp,” died in Hartlepool, England; he was 80.
In 2000 the presidents of South Korea and North Korea opened a summit in the northern capital of Pyongyang with pledges to seek reunification of the divided peninsula. Also, Italy pardoned Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who had tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
In 2004 former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday with a 13,000-foot parachute jump over his presidential library in College Station, Texas.
In 2005 a jury in Santa Maria, Calif., acquitted Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch. Also, the Senate apologized for blocking anti-lynching legislation in the early 20th Century, when mob violence against blacks was commonplace.
