June 13, 2012 – Smriti "Simmi" D. Isaac

Updated June 12, 2012, 2:28 pm

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.
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On June 13, 1865, William Butler Yeats, the Irish Nobel Prize-winning writer and poet was born. Following his death on Jan. 28, 1939, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

By The Associated Press

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.

Current Birthdays

By The Associated Press

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon turn years old today.

AP Photo/Valentina Petrova

Actress Kat Dennings turn years old today.

AP Photo/Dan Steinberg

1932 Bob McGrath, Actor (“Sesame Street”), turns 80

1939 Siegfried, Magician (Siegfried & Roy), turns 73

1943 Malcolm McDowell, Actor, turns 69

1947 Jerrold Nadler, U.S. representative, D-N.Y., turns 65

1951 Stellan Skarsgard, Actor, turns 61

1951 Richard Thomas, Actor (“The Waltons”), turns 61

1953 Tim Allen, Actor, comedian (“Home Improvement”), turns 59

1962 Ally Sheedy, Actress, turns 50

1962 Hannah Storm, TV host, turns 50

1974 Steve-O, Actor (“Jackass”), turns 38

1978 Ethan Embry, Actor, turns 34

1986 Ashley Olsen, Actress, turns 26

1986 Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress, turns 26

Historic Birthdays

William Butler Yeats 6/13/1865 – 1/28/1939 Irish poet, dramatist and writer.Go to obituary »

80 Winfield Scott 6/13/1786 – 5/29/1866
American army general

82 Jose Antonio Paez 6/13/1790 – 5/7/1873
Venezuelan soldier and politician

48 James Clerk Maxwell 6/13/1831 – 11/5/1879
Scottish physicist

90 Robert Wood 6/13/1879 – 11/6/1969
American business executive

94 Etienne Gilson 6/13/1884 – 9/19/1978
French Canadian philosopher and historian

66 Elizabeth Schumann 6/13/1885 – 4/23/1952
German-born American soprano

78 Mark Van Doren 6/13/1894 – 12/10/1972
American poet, writer and teacher

84 Tage Erlander 6/13/1901 – 6/21/1985
Swedish prime minister (1946-69)

87 Red Grange 6/13/1903 – 1/28/1991
American football player

77 Luis Alvarez 6/13/1911 – 9/1/1988
American experimental physicist

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.

1932	Bob McGrath, Actor (“Sesame Street”), turns 80
1939	Siegfried, Magician (Siegfried & Roy), turns 73
1943	Malcolm McDowell, Actor, turns 69
1947	Jerrold Nadler, U.S. representative, D-N.Y., turns 65
1951	Stellan Skarsgard, Actor, turns 61
1951	Richard Thomas, Actor (“The Waltons”), turns 61
1953	Tim Allen, Actor, comedian (“Home Improvement”), turns 59
1962	Ally Sheedy, Actress, turns 50
1962	Hannah Storm, TV host, turns 50
1974	Steve-O, Actor (“Jackass”), turns 38
1978	Ethan Embry, Actor, turns 34
1986	Ashley Olsen, Actress, turns 26
1986	Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress, turns 26

80	Winfield Scott 6/13/1786 – 5/29/1866 American army general
82	Jose Antonio Paez 6/13/1790 – 5/7/1873 Venezuelan soldier and politician
48	James Clerk Maxwell 6/13/1831 – 11/5/1879 Scottish physicist
90	Robert Wood 6/13/1879 – 11/6/1969 American business executive
94	Etienne Gilson 6/13/1884 – 9/19/1978 French Canadian philosopher and historian
66	Elizabeth Schumann 6/13/1885 – 4/23/1952 German-born American soprano
78	Mark Van Doren 6/13/1894 – 12/10/1972 American poet, writer and teacher
84	Tage Erlander 6/13/1901 – 6/21/1985 Swedish prime minister (1946-69)
87	Red Grange 6/13/1903 – 1/28/1991 American football player
77	Luis Alvarez 6/13/1911 – 9/1/1988 American experimental physicist

via learning.blogs.nytimes.com

MORNING

“Delight thyself also in the Lord.”
Psalm 37:4

The teaching of these words must seem very surprising to those who are strangers to vital godliness, but to the sincere believer it is only the inculcation of a recognized truth. The life of the believer is here described as a delight in God, and we are thus certified of the great fact that true religion overflows with happiness and joy. Ungodly persons and mere professors never look upon religion as a joyful thing; to them it is service, duty, or necessity, but never pleasure or delight. If they attend to religion at all, it is either that they may gain thereby, or else because they dare not do otherwise. The thought of delight in religion is so strange to most men, that no two words in their language stand further apart than “holiness” and “delight.” But believers who know Christ, understand that delight and faith are so blessedly united, that the gates of hell cannot prevail to separate them. They who love God with all their hearts, find that his ways are ways of pleasantness, and all his paths are peace. Such joys, such brimful delights, such overflowing blessednesses, do the saints discover in their Lord, that so far from serving him from custom, they would follow him though all the world cast out his name as evil. We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

Delight and true religion are as allied as root and flower; as indivisible as truth and certainty; they are, in fact, two precious jewels glittering side by side in a setting of gold.

“‘Tis when we taste thy love,

Our joys divinely grow,

Unspeakable like those above,

And heaven begins below.”

EVENING

“O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face … because we have sinned against thee.”
Daniel 9:8

A deep sense and clear sight of sin, its heinousness, and the punishment which it deserves, should make us lie low before the throne. We have sinned as Christians. Alas! that it should be so. Favoured as we have been, we have yet been ungrateful: privileged beyond most, we have not brought forth fruit in proportion. Who is there, although he may long have been engaged in the Christian warfare, that will not blush when he looks back upon the past? As for our days before we were regenerated, may they be forgiven and forgotten; but since then, though we have not sinned as before, yet we have sinned against light and against love–light which has really penetrated our minds, and love in which we have rejoiced. Oh, the atrocity of the sin of a pardoned soul! An unpardoned sinner sins cheaply compared with the sin of one of God’s own elect ones, who has had communion with Christ and leaned his head upon Jesus’ bosom. Look at David! Many will talk of his sin, but I pray you look at his repentance, and hear his broken bones, as each one of them moans out its dolorous confession! Mark his tears, as they fall upon the ground, and the deep sighs with which he accompanies the softened music of his harp! We have erred: let us, therefore, seek the spirit of penitence. Look, again, at Peter! We speak much of Peter’s denying his Master. Remember, it is written, “He wept bitterly.” Have we no denials of our Lord to be lamented with tears? Alas! these sins of ours, before and after conversion, would consign us to the place of inextinguishable fire if it were not for the sovereign mercy which has made us to differ, snatching us like brands from the burning. My soul, bow down under a sense of thy natural sinfulness, and worship thy God. Admire the grace which saves thee–the mercy which spares thee–the love which pardons thee!