TIM MAGUIRE

It was on this day in 1971.

President Johnson and Thurgood Marshall

On this day in 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in
Miranda v. Arizona, establishing the principle that all criminal suspects
must be advised of their specific legal rights when they are placed under
arrest. It’s now considered standard police procedure. 
 

China’s Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted
into violence on this day in 1900.    

The unmanned NASA space probe Pioneer 10  was launched in March of 
1972. The first up-close images of the planet Jupiter were provided by the 
probe.

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman

TIM MAGUIRE

Alabama Gov. George Wallace’s literal stand (left) against forced integration on this day in 1963 made him a national figure in the
ongoing Civil Rights battle.

On this day in June of 1963, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích
Quang Duc burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon. He
was attempting to show that to fight all forms of oppression on equal
terms, Buddhism too, needed to have its martyrs.

Photographer Malcolm Browne captured the scene in Saigon for the
Associated Press, and the stark image quickly became an iconic visual
of the turbulent 1960s.

Timothy James McVeigh  (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001)

Timothy McVeigh was convicted of blowing up the Oklahoma city federal
building killing and 168 people in the deadliest act of terrorism on American
soil. He was executed on this day in 2001.       

   
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
   

It was on this day in 1919.

Sir Barton’s monument and gravesite in Douglas, Wyoming.

On this day in 1979.

John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison)
(May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979)

The Duke’s grave marker.

ROSS SIMPSON

On this day in 1967, Israel and Syria agreed to a cease-fire that
ended the Six-Day War.

The Army of Yugoslavia began withdrawal from Kosovo on this
day in 1999. NATO had suspended air strikes in Yugoslavia after
Slobodan Milosevic agreed to the withdrawal.  

Alcoholic Anonymous was founded by Dr. Robert Smith (left) and
William G. Wilson on this day in 1935.

Little girl Garland

1939

Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
(June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)

Judy Garland began performing vaudeville
at the age of two and a half.

She received a Grammy Lifetime
Achievement Award posthumously
in 1997.

It was on this day in 2004.

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004)

CAMILLE BOHANNON

The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of
Normandy, France on this day in 1944. Approximately 400,000
Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved.

Israeli armored vehicles in Beirut during the 1982 invasion on this
day in 1982.

It was on this day in 1933, the first drive-in movie theater opened
in Camden, NJ.

Camille Bohannon

It was on this day in 1968.

It began on this day in 1967.

U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall (above) gave a speech
at Harvard University in which he outlined what became to known
as the Marshall Plan on this day in 1947.

The first case of AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)
was observed clinically on this day in 1981.