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• ... that Christopher Smart (pictured) spent five years in a mental asylum and wrote his most important works, Jubilate Agno and A Song to David, during this time?
• ... that the Roman-Parthian War of 58–63 over Armenia ended with a compromise that saw the Arsacid dynasty established on the Armenian throne?
• ... that Arthur Byron Coble's classic 1929 monograph Algebraic geometry and theta functions was still being published by the American Mathematical Society as late as 1982?
• ... that half of all Quebec's program spending for the Eastern Habitat Joint Venture is devoted to the nationally significant wetlands in the biosphere reserve and region of Lac Saint-Pierre?
• ... that Edward Cawston made his first-class cricket debut for Sussex whilst he was still at school?
• ... that the North Exelon Pavilions are the first structures in Chicago, Illinois to use building integrated photovoltaic cells?
• ... that as a poet, Antoni Edward Odyniec was a mediocre imitator of his friend, the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, but left colorful memoirs describing Mickiewicz's private life?
  

June 13:

• 1525 – Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora (pictured), against the celibacy discipline decreed by the Roman Catholic Church on priests.
• 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria was found dead in Lake Starnberg near Munich under mysterious circumstances.
• 1898 – The Yukon Territory was formed in Canada, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
• 1966 – The Miranda v. Arizona landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court established the Miranda warning, requiring law enforcement officials to advise a suspect in custody of his rights to remain silent and to obtain an attorney.
• 1971 – The New York Times began to publish the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page top-secret United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.

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