Daily Archives: June 13, 2015

Michael Jackson cleared after 14-week child molesting trial 10 years ago this hour (June 13 2005)


Video: 'June,13 2005 Court verdict: NOT GUILTY - Michael Jackson was acquitted of ALL counts!'

(Monday, June 13, 2005, 2:13 p.m. PDT) — Michael Jackson was acquitted today of all charges against him by a jury that absorbed three months of often lurid testimony about his life and relationships with young boys but rejected a teenager’s claim that Jackson plied him with liquor and sexually molested him.

‘Becky Sharp,’ first three-strip Technicolor movie, opens in New York City 80 years ago today (June 13 1935)


Video: 'Becky Sharp (1935)'

(Thursday, June 13, 1935)Becky Sharp, the first movie photographed in “three-strip” Technicolor, opened today at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian, the film starred Miriam Hopkins, Alan Mowbray, Frances Dee and Cedric Hardwicke.

Viet Cong win Battle of Dong Xoai in South Vietnam 50 years ago today (June 13 1965)


Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - LBJ Goes to War [3/11]' (June 13, 1965, at 37:38)

(Sunday, June 13, 1965; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — The Battle of Dong Xoai, a major battle fought during the National Liberation Front Summer Offensive of 1965 in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, ended today with a Viet Cong victory.