June 13
June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining.
Events
- 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
- 1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.
- 1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River, confirming they are heading in the right direction.[1]
- 1881 - The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
- 1886 - A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
- 1920 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.
- 1927 - A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City. [2]
- 1934 - Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
- 1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda.
- 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets. [3]
- 1953 - Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy
- 1966 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
- 1967 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court. [4]
- 1970 - "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song. [5]
- 1971 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers. [6]
- 1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison 3 days before.
- 1981 - At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II .
- 1982 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
- 1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system. [7]
- 1991 - A spectator was killed by lightning at the U.S. Open golf tournament. [8]
- 1995 - French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.[9]
- 1996 - An 81-day standoff between the Freemen and FBI agents ends with their surrender in Montana.
- 1997 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. [10]
- 2004 - A 4 kg meteorite hits the house of Phil and Brenda Archer in Ellerslie, New Zealand, destroying the roof and a couch. [11]
Births
- 823 - Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and king of the West Franks (d. 877)
- 1752 - Fanny Burney, novelist and diarist (d. 1840)
- 1786 - Winfield Scott, United States general (d. 1866)
- 1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (d. 1896)
- 1865 - William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1923 (d. 1939)
- 1870 - Jules Bordet, physicist and microbiologist (d. 1961)
- 1887 - Bruno Frank, author (d. 1945)
- 1892 - Basil Rathbone, actor (d. 1967)
- 1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers, author (d. 1957)
- 1897 - Paavo Nurmi, runner (d. 1973)
- 1899 - Carlos Chávez, composer (d. 1978)
- 1901 - Tage Erlander, Swedish Prime Minister (d. 1985)
- 1903 - Harold 'Red' Grange, American football player (d. 1991)
- 1913 - Kid Azteca, boxer (d. 2002)
- 1913 - Ralph Edwards, television host
- 1915 - Don Budge, tennis player (d. 2000)
- 1926 - Paul Lynde, actor (d. 1982)
- 1933 - Tom King, British politician
- 1935 - Christo, artist
- 1943 - Malcolm McDowell, actor
- 1945 - Whitley Strieber, author
- 1948 - Garnet Bailey, ice hockey player and scout (d. 2001)
- 1949 - Ann Druyan, science author and media producer
- 1951 - Richard Thomas, actor
- 1951 - Stellan Skarsgård, actor
- 1953 - Tim Allen, actor
- 1955 - Tony Knowles, English snooker player
- 1962 - Ally Sheedy, actress
- 1970 - Rivers Cuomo, singer, guitar player (Weezer)
- 1974 - Steve-O, television personality
- 1986 - The Olsen twins, actresses
Deaths
- 1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
- 1918 - Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (Grand Duke Michael), Tsar Mikhail II of Russia (b. 1878)
- 1946 - Major Bowes, radio host
- 1951 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
- 1965 - Martin Buber, philosopher (b. 1878)
- 1972 - Clyde McPhatter, musician (b. 1932)
- 1979 - Darla Hood, actress (b. 1931)
- 1980 - Walter Rodney, historian, political figure (b. 1942)
- 1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
- 1986 - Benny Goodman, musician (b. 1909)
- 1987 - Geraldine Page, actress (b. 1924)
- 1989 - Fran Allison, actress, television personality
- 1998 - Reg Smythe, Andy Capp cartoonist
- 2003 - Heinrich Hoff, German boxer and athlete
- 2004 - Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
- 2004 - Ralph Wiley, writer (b. 1952)
Holidays and observances
- Feast of St Anthony of Padua
- Roman Empire - Quinquatrus Minusculae held in honor of Minerva
- Roman Empire - seventh day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
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