1942

The Battle of Midway ended in a decisive victory for American naval forces over Imperial Japan, marking a turning point in the Pacific War.

1965

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, struck down, 7-2, a Connecticut law used to prosecute a Planned Parenthood clinic in New Haven for providing contraceptives to married couples.

1981

Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.

1998

In a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old Black man, was hooked by a chain to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men were later sentenced to death for the crime.)

2013

Death row inmate Richard Ramirez, 53, the serial killer known as California’s “Night Stalker,” died in a hospital.

Birthdays

Movie director James Ivory is 96. Singer Tom Jones is 84. Former talk show host Jenny Jones is 78. Americana singer-songwriter Willie Nile is 76. Actor Liam Neeson is 72. Record producer L.A. Reid is 68. Latin pop singer Juan Luis Guerra is 67. Former Vice President Mike Pence is 65. Rock musician Dave Navarro is 57. Actor Michael Cera is 36.