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Jun 13, 1966:
The Miranda rights are established

On this day in 1966, the Supreme Court hands down its decision in Miranda v. Arizona, establishing the principle that all criminal suspects must be advised of their rights before interrogation. Now considered standard police procedure, "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can, and will, be used against you in court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed to you," has been heard so many times in television and film dramas that it has become almost cliche.
The roots of the Miranda decision go back to March 2, 1963, when an 18-year-old Phoenix woman told police that she had been abducted, driven to the desert and raped. Detectives questioning her story gave her a polygraph test, but the results were inconclusive. However, tracking the license plate number of a car that resembled that of her attacker's brought police to Ernesto Miranda, who had a prior record as a peeping tom. Although the victim did not identify Miranda in a line-up, he was brought into police custody and interrogated. What happened next is disputed, but officers left the interrogation with a confession that Miranda later recanted, unaware that he didn't have to say anything at all.
The confession was extremely brief and differed in certain respects from the victim's account of the crime. However, Miranda's appointed defense attorney (who was paid a grand total of $100) didn't call any witnesses at the ensuing trial, and Miranda was convicted. While Miranda was in Arizona state prison, the American Civil Liberties Union took up his appeal, claiming that the confession was false and coerced.
The Supreme Court overturned his conviction, but Miranda was retried and convicted in October 1966 anyway, despite the relative lack of evidence against him. Remaining in prison until 1972, Ernesto Miranda was later stabbed to death in the men's room of a bar after a poker game in January 1976.
As a result of the case against Miranda, each and every person must now be informed of his or her rights when arrested.

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On June 13, 1905, pitcher Christy Matthewson of the New York Giants throws the second no-hitter of his career to lead his Giants to a 1-0 win over the powerful Chicago Cubs.

Matthewson, known simply as "Matty" to his adoring fans, enjoyed a successful athletic career at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, where he was a star in both baseball and football. He joined the Giants in 1901, and for a year was a promising pitcher on a losing club. In the middle of the 1902 season, though, that changed with the hiring of the great strategist and player-manager John McGraw, who had made his name with the 1890s Baltimore Orioles. McGraw was recruited to manage the new Orioles of the upstart American League (AL) in 1901, but left over differences with AL founder Ban Johnson. Upon joining the Giants, McGraw immediately put the team on the road to success by accepting nothing less than total effort and making use of the aggressive style on the bases that had earlier won him fame. McGraw managed the Giants from 1902 to 1932, during which time the team won 10 pennants, five of which came between 1902 and 1916 with Matty on the mound.

A tee-totaling gentleman, Matthewson was admired for his skill and clean image and soon became the most popular athlete in the country. John McGraw was the opposite, a profane, contentious man willing to fight over any perceived slight. In spite of their contrasting personalities, the two men and their wives were the best of friends off the field. McGraw and Matthewson led the previously moribund Giants to an 84-55 record in 1903, 6.5 games behind the pennant-winning Pittsburgh Pirates. The next year, the Giants won the National League and Matthewson, who went 33-12, led the league in strikeouts for the second year in a row. Unfortunately, Matthewson didnât get a chance that year to prove his mettle in the World Series because McGraw, known as "the little Napoleon," was still angry with Ban Johnson of the American League and refused to let his team play. The players grudgingly forfeited their bonus checks and the second World Series was cancelled.

In 1905, the best year of his career, Matthewson won 31 games to just nine lost and ended the year with an earned run average of just 1.28, more than a run and a half lower than the league average. On this day, he threw the second no-hitter of his career to lead his team to their second consecutive National League pennant over the powerful Cubs. Two Cubs reached second base, both due to errors, or Matthewsonâs no-hit, no-walk performance would have been a perfect game. He held on until his Giants scored their lone run in the ninth for a 1-0 win.

In the 1905 World Series, the Giants beat Connie Mackâs Philadelphia Athletics behind Mattyâs three complete game shutouts in six days. It was the only World Series victory for Matthewson, who played on three more NL pennant winners, but lost the 1911, 1912 and 1913 World Series in spite of his brilliant pitching.

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Alexander the Great, the young Macedonian military genius who forged an empire stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to India, dies in Babylon, in present-day Iraq, at the age of 33.
Born in Macedonia to King Phillip II and Queen Olympias, Alexander received a classical education from famed philosopher Aristotle and a military education from his father. At the age of 16, Alexander led his first troops into combat and two years later commanded a large part of his father's army that won the Battle of Chaeronea and brought Greece under Macedonian rule. In 336 B.C., Phillip II was assassinated, and Alexander ascended to the throne.
Two years later, the young king led a large army into Asia Minor to carry out his father's plans for conquering Persia. Consistently outnumbered in his battles against superior Persian forces, Alexander displayed an unprecedented understanding of strategic military planning and tactical maneuvers. He never lost a single battle, and by 330 B.C. all of Persia and Asia Minor was under his sway. Within his empire, he founded great and lasting cities, such as Alexandria in Egypt, and brought about sweeping political and economic changes based on the advanced Greek models taught to him in his youth.
Although Alexander controlled the largest empire in the history of the world, he launched a new eastern campaign soon after his return from Persia. By 327 B.C., he had conquered Afghanistan, Central Asia, and northern India. In the next year, his army, exhausted after eight years of fighting, refused to go farther, and Alexander led them on a difficult journey home through the inhospitable Makran Desert.
Finally reaching Babylon, Alexander began constructing a large fleet to take his army back to Egypt. However, in June 323 B.C., just as the work on his ships was reaching its conclusion, Alexander fell sick after a prolonged banquet and drinking bout and died. Perhaps earnestly believing himself to be a god (as many of his subjects did), he had not selected a successor, and within a year of his death his army and his empire broke into a multitude of warring factions. His body was later returned to Alexandria, where it was laid to rest in a golden coffin.

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By the end of the 1970s, the decade of her greatest commercial success, Linda Ronstadt was being hailed with honors like "the First Lady of Rock" and "Top Female Pop Singer of the Decade." But neither of those titles captured the true breadth of her musical pursuits or of her popularity. As synonymous as she was in the late 1970s with the pop mainstream, Ronstadt began her rise to stardom working in an idiom as compatible with country-music fashions as with rock. In fact, her first top-10 hit was with the Hank Williams song "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)," and the biggest hit of her career was "When Will I Be Loved," which became a #1 hit on the country-music charts on this day in 1975.
"When Will I Be Loved," a top-10 pop hit for the Everly Brothers in 1960, came from Linda Ronstadt's 1975 breakthrough album Heart Like A Wheel, which yielded three top-10 hits each on the pop and country-music charts. ["When Will I Be Loved" was the only hit on both; "You're No Good" was a #1 pop hit that did not make the country charts, and the aforementioned "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)" and Neil Young's "Love Is A Rose" were #2 and #5 country hits, respectively, but did not have an impact on the pop charts.] While Ronstadt's dabbling in new wave and disco on her subsequent albums may have seemed to mark her as a trend-follower, in fact they reflected a natural eclecticism would become even more pronounced in future stages of her career.
Over the course of 30 active years (and counting) since her 1975 breakthrough, Linda Ronstadt has recorded songs by such diverse songwriting giants as Hank Williams, Elvis Costello, Gilbert and Sullivan, Smokey Robinson, Sam and Dave and Cole Porter, as well as an entire album of traditional Spanish canciones. Her eclectic musical journey out of youth and into middle age also included a return to her country-tinged roots with the album Trio, recorded with country superstars Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris and a #1 hit on the country-music album charts in 1987.

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I actually saw Linda Ronstadt in concert one time in college....wild!!

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