Today in History: June 13, first Pentagon Papers excerpts published

In contemporary times is Friday June the th day of There are days left in the year In the current era in history On June The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers a top secret survey of America s involvement in Vietnam since that had been leaked to the paper by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg Also on this date In during World War II a four-man Nazi sabotage crew arrived by submarine on Long Island New York three days before a second four-man squad landed in Florida All eight men were arrested within weeks after two members of the first group defected Related Articles Appeals court temporarily blocks judge s ruling to return control of National Guard to California Takedown of California s senior U S Senator Alex Padilla expected to ratchet up interest in Saturday protests in Bay Area Livermore father deported by ICE to Mexico hours before judge ordered he stay Massive Google Cloud outage disrupts popular internet services Watch California senator forcefully removed during Homeland Assurance chief s news conference In the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v Arizona that criminal subjects had to be informed of their constitutional rights to remain silent and consult with an attorney In President Lyndon B Johnson nominated Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall to become the first non-white justice on the U S Supreme Court In the U S space probe Pioneer launched in became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune In the -day-old Freemen standoff in Montana ended as the remaining members of the anti-government group left their ranch and surrendered to the FBI In the first meeting between leaders of North Korea and South Korea since the Korean War began as South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung met North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang In the White House noted it had conclusive evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad s leadership had used chemical weapons against opposition forces seeking to overthrow him In the committee reviewing the Jan attack on the U S Capitol was described that Donald Trump s closest campaign advisers top establishment representatives and even his family were dismantling his false insists of balloting fraud ahead of the insurrection but the defeated president was becoming detached from reality and clinging to outlandish theories to stay in power In the current era s Birthdays Actor Malcolm McDowell is Former U N Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is Actor Stellan Skarsg rd is Actor Richard Thomas is Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Weaver is Actor-comedian Tim Allen is Actor Ally Sheedy is Sportscaster Hannah Storm is Musician Rivers Cuomo Weezer is Actor-comedian Steve-O is Actor Ethan Embry is Actor Chris Evans is Actor Kat Dennings is Fashion designers and former actors Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen are Actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson is Actor Kodi Smit-McPhee is