Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is June 13. It was on this date in 1994 that Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of athlete-turned-actor O.J. Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, were found stabbed to death outside her condominium in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. O.J. Simpson would be charged with the murders, but acquitted in Oct. 1995 following a long and highly publicized criminal trial. However, a civil court jury later would find him liable in the deaths and ordered him to pay more than $35 million to the estates of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Advertisement A bid for freedom by James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., ended on this date in 1977 when he was captured in a Tennessee wilderness area after escaping from prison. Alexander the Great died of fever in Babylon on this date in 323 B.C. He was only 33 but had conquered the known world. After his death, his empire fell apart. Canada got its first woman prime minister on this date in 1993 when the Progressive Conservative Party elected Vancouver lawyer Kim Campbell to head the party, and thus the country. She succeeded Brian Mulroney. Advertisement An 81-day standoff in rural Montana by members of the anti-tax Freeman militia ended on this date in 1996 with their surrender. 10 days earlier, the FBI had cut off electricity to their ranch. In July 1998, four of the militia's leaders were convicted in federal court on charges of defrauding the government. And it was on this date in 1983 that the robot spacecraft Pioneer-10 became the first man-made object to leave the solar system. It did so 11 years after it was launched. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
