WHAT HAPPENED ON 13. JUNE
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Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered. (13. June 1955)

The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them. (13. June 1966)

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. (13. June 1967)

Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas. (13. June 1969)

"The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last US Number 1 song. (13. June 1970)

Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers. (13. June 1971)

Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before. (13. June 1977)

Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon. (13. June 1978)

At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II. (13. June 1981)

Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid. (13. June 1982)

Riccardo Paletti, was killed when he crashed on the start grid for the Canadian Grand Prix (13. June 1982)

Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time). (13. June 1983)

A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages. (13. June 1994)

The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents. (13. June 1996)

A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. (13. June 1997)

Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India, killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured. (13. June 1997)

President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang. (13. June 2000)

Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. (13. June 2000)

The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. (13. June 2002)

Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the US. (13. June 2002)