| On this date in: |
| 1900 | China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted. |
| 1966 | The Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police. |
| 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 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 | An 81-day standoff ended as 16 members of the anti-government Freemen 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. |
| 2004 | Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday with a 13,000-foot parachute jump over his presidential library in College Station, Texas. |
| 2005 | Singer Michael Jackson was acquitted on charges of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch. |
| 2009 | Incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of a disputed Iranian presidential vote, touching off weeks of mass demonstrations. |
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