National News Today in History Today is Wednesday, June 30, the 181st day of 2021. There are 184 days left in the year. by Associated Press Jun. 29 2021 @ 8:16pm Today is Wednesday, June 30, the 181st day of 2021. There are 184 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 30, 1971, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, that the government could not prevent The New York Times or The Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers. On this date: In 1865, eight people, including Mary Surratt and Dr. Samuel Mudd, were convicted by a military commission of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. (Four defendants, including Surratt, were executed; Mudd was sentenced to life in prison, but was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1869.)