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It’s been said that there’s no time like the present. But where we are now is often the result of where we’ve been in the past. With that in mind, Briefly Legal invites you to travel back in time to take a look at what happened during this week in legal history:

Seven years ago Thursday the world learned the true identity of 鈥淒eep Throat,鈥� the shadowy presence who played a pivotal role in the Watergate case. W. Mark Felt, a former FBI assistant director, was the secret source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. According to History.com, Felt agreed to confirm inside information for Woodward and Bernstein because he was peeved that Richard Nixon hadn鈥檛 appointed him as FBI director when J. Edgar Hoover died. Woodward and Bernstein promised to keep Felt鈥檚 identity a secret until he died. Though Felt repeatedly denied being Deep Throat, his family revealed the secret in a Vanity Fair article published May 31, 2005. Felt died Dec. 18, 2008, at the age of 95.

June 2 is a busy day in legal history. President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony on this day in 1886. The ceremony made the 21-year-old Folsom the youngest First Lady in U.S. history. On June 2, 1924, Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, which gave citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. Despite that, Native Americans were not allowed to vote until the early 20^th century. And on June 2, 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The bombing resulted in the deaths of 168 people.

June 4 marks the 19^th 础尘别苍诲尘别苍迟鈥檚 93^rd anniversary. The amendment gave women the right to vote, a goal that began with the women鈥檚 suffrage movement in July 1848. In 1890, Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote. Congress passed the amendment in 1919, and it became law the following year when Tennessee鈥檚 passage gave it the two-thirds state majority necessary for ratification.

On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. Ronald Reagan passed away on the same day in 2004.

Our thanks to History.com for this week’s legal tidbits.