June 13<\/p>\n
313 \u2013 The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, grants religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n
1525 \u2013 Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.<\/p>\n
1774 \u2013 Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 During the Revolutionary War, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette arrives at Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.<\/p>\n
1805 \u2013 Scouting ahead of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River in north central Montana.<\/p>\n
1881 \u2013 During the exploration of the Artic, the stranded USS Jeannette<\/em> is crushed in an\u00a0 ice pack.<\/p>\n 1893 \u2013 At the beginning of his second term in office, President Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw. The operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president’s death.<\/p>\n 1927 \u2013 Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 In the case of\u00a0\u00a0Miranda v. Arizona, <\/em>the Supreme Court rules that the police must inform suspects of their of their 5th Amendment rights before questioning them.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 President Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers, the classified Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 Pioneer 10<\/em> becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, finds Exxon corporation and Captain Joseph Hazelwood responsible for the Exxon Valdez<\/em> disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 A man driving an armored van opens fire outside the police headquarters in Dallas, Texas and is killed in a gunfight with police after a vehicle pursuit ending in Hutchens, Texas.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal, where the on board computer is programmed to change engine performance to meet exhaust standards when a vehicle is being tested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 13 313 \u2013 The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, grants religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire. 1525 \u2013 Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns. 1774 \u2013 Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93531,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68462\/revisions\/93531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}