• Today is Wednesday, June 13, the 165th day of 2012. There are 201 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 13, 1942, the first of two four-man Nazi sabotage teams arrived in the United States during World War II. The first group disembarked from a U-boat off Long Island, N.Y.; the second one arrived several days later on the Florida coast. (The eight were arrested after one of them went to U.S. authorities; six of the saboteurs were executed.)
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• On this date:
• In 1842, Queen Victoria became the first British monarch to ride on a train, traveling from Slough Railway Station to Paddington in 25 minutes.
• In 1886, King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg.
• In 1927, aviation hero Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
• In 1935, James Braddock claimed the title of world heavyweight boxing champion from Max Baer in a 15-round fight in Long Island City, N.Y.
• In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Office of War Information, and appointed radio news commentator Elmer Davis to be its head.
• In 1944, Germany began launching flying-bomb attacks against Britain during World War II.
• In 1962, "Lolita," Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of the Vladimir Nabokov novel, had its world premiere in New York City.
• In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional right to consult with an attorney and to remain silent.
• In 1971, The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967 that had been leaked to the paper by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg.
• In 1982, King Khalid of Saudi Arabia died at the age of 69; he was succeeded by

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