43 years ago today, *Pioneer 10* crossed the orbit of Neptune

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55 years ago today, the New York Times began publishing the *Pentagon Papers* leaked to them by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, and 15 years ago today they were finally declassified and fully released

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60 years ago today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued their 5–4 decision in *Miranda v. Arizona* establishing that police officers must inform criminal suspects in custody of their rights

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55 years ago today, U.S. Marshals forcibly removed the last 15 members of the *Indians of All Tribes* who had been occupying Alcatraz Island for 18 months

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90 years ago today, the London International Surrealist Exhibition opened

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63 years ago today, US president John F. Kennedy signed the *Equal Pay Act of 1963* into law

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334 years ago today, Bridget Bishop was hanged for Witchcraft in the Colony of Massachusetts. She was the first of 19 people who were executed during the Salem witch trials over the following year.

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200 years ago today in the *Types Riot* members of the aristocracy of York, Upper Canada (now Toronto) destroyed the printing press and movable type of a journalist and publisher who criticized them

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59 years ago today Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats attacked the US Navy spy ship USS *Liberty* for 23 minutes, killing 34 and injuring 171

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