1966 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights

1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as first black Supreme Court justice

1969 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band &joins the Rolling Stones

1969 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2111 Tselina

1970 Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 &stays #1 for 4 weeks

1971 NY Times began publishing "The Pentagon Papers"

1971 Perth Observatory discovers asteroids #1806 Derice ޺ Patrice

1972 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2604

1975 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2219 Mannucci

1980 Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"

1980 UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela

1981 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany

1981 Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II

1981 Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"

1982 Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69

1983 Pioneer 10 becomes first man-made object to leave Solar System

1986 Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency

1987 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel &Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina

1988 George Harrison releases "This is Love"

1988 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist

1990 Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya

1990 Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term.

1971 Francois Mitterrand named head of French Socialist Party

1982 Argentine forces surrender to the British in the Falklands conflict

1983 Pioneer 10 becomes the first spacecraft to leave the solar system

1990 Official removal of the Berlin Wall begins

1943 The birth of Malcolm McDowell, Film actor

2005 Singer Michael Jackson acquitted of all charges of harming children (see 205 trial of Michael Jackson).

2005 Death of Álvaro Cunhal, former General-Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party and a major figure among European communists.

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