By The Associated Press

              - Today is Sunday, June 13, the 164th day of 1999. There are 201 days
                left in the year.

              - On June 13, 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.
              - In 1886 King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg.
              - In 1888 Congress created the U.S. Department of Labor.
              - In 1898 the Yukon Territory of Canada was organized.
              - In 1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese
                Christians erupted into violence.
              - In 1927 aviation hero Charles Lindbergh was honored with a
                ticker-tape parade in New York City.
              - In 1942 President Roosevelt created the Office of War Information,
                and appointed radio news commentator Elmer Davis to head it.
              - In 1944 Germany began launching flying-bomb attacks against Britain
                during World War II.
              - In 1967 President Johnson nominated Solicitor General Thurgood
                Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme
                Court.
              - In 1971 The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a
                secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam.

              - Ten years ago the Detroit Pistons won their first National
                Basketball Association title, sweeping the Los Angeles Lakers in
                four games.
              - Five years ago 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. O.J. Simpson was questioned for several hours by Los
                Angeles police following the slashing deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole,
                and Ronald Goldman.
              - One year ago civil rights leaders and politicians called for an end
                to racial violence as hundreds of mourners gathered in Jasper,
                Texas, for the funeral of James Byrd Jr., a black man who police
                said was brutally killed by white supremacists. President Clinton
                visited Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore., where two
                students were killed and 22 others wounded the previous month.
 

              *Happy Birthday*
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              - TV host Ralph Edwards is 86.
              - Singer Bobby Freeman is 59.
              - Actor Malcolm McDowell is 56.
              - Singer Dennis Locorriere (Dr. Hook) is 50.
              - Actor Richard Thomas is 48.
              - Actor Jonathan Hogan is 48.
              - Comedian Tim Allen is 46.
              - Actress Ally Sheedy is 37.
              - Actor Jamie Walters is 30.
              - Actor Ethan Embry is 21.
              - Actress Sarah Schaub ("Promised Land") is 16.
              - Actress Mary-Kate Olsen is 13.
              - Actress Ashley Olsen is 13.