Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1886

King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg.

1900

China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted into violence.

1927

Aviation hero Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

1944

Germany began launching flying-bomb attacks against Britain during World War II.

1966

The Supreme Court issued its landmark Miranda vs. Arizona decision, ruling that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police.

1967

President Johnson nominated Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1971

The New York Times began publishing the ''Pentagon Papers,'' a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam.

1981

A teen-ager fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II during a parade in London.

1983

The U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune.

1994

A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blamed recklessness by Exxon Corp. and Capt. Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the nation's worst oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.

1996

The 81-day-old Freemen standoff ended as 16 remaining members of the anti-government group surrendered to the FBI and left their Montana ranch.

1997

A jury voted unanimously to give Timothy McVeigh the death penalty for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

2000

The presidents of South Korea and North Korea opened a summit in thenorthern capital of Pyongyang with pledges to seek reunification of thedivided peninsula.

2000

Italy pardoned Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill PopeJohn Paul II in 1981.

2005

Singer Michael Jackson was found not guilty on charges of allegedly sexually abusing a young boy.

2017

American college student Otto Warmbier was returned home to Ohio in a comatose state after having been imprisoned in North Korea for over a year. He would die 6 days later.

1986

Benny Goodman, the clarinet-playing ''King of Swing,'' died in New York at the age of 77.