Today is Saturday, June 13, the 164th day of 2009. There are 201 days left in the year.
1777 _ Marquis de Lafayette lands in U.S.
1888 _ Congress creates the Department of Labor
1900 _ China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Christians
1927 _ Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A. Lindbergh to NYC
1940 _ Paris evacuated before the German advance
1970 _ Beatles' ``Let It Be," album goes No. 1 & stays No. 1 for four weeks
1971 _ New York Times began publishing ``The Pentagon Papers"
1980 _ U.N. Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1981 _ 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
1987 _ Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Argentina