June 13

June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining.

Contents

1 Events

1.1 1600-1899
1.2 1900-1999

2 Births

2.1 800-1899
2.2 1900-1999

3 Deaths

3.1 1800-1949
3.2 1950-1999
3.3 2000-2099

4 Holidays and observances

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Events

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1600-1899

1625 - King Charles I is married to the French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon
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.
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.

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1900-1999

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. [1] (http://roynagl.topcities.com/lindbergh2.htm)
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. [2] (http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/features/display.var.497874.0.facing_hitlers_terror_weapons.php)
1952 - Catalina affair, a Swedish Douglas DC-3 was shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
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. [3] (http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_history/subs_timeline/images_associates/082.html)
1970 - "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song. [4] (http://www.beatles.com/html/thelongandwindingroad/)
1971 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers. [5] (http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/48.htm)
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. [6] (http://quest.nasa.gov/sso/cool/pioneer10/mission/)
1991 - A spectator was killed by lightning at the U.S. Open golf tournament. [7] (http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/slide-show/tstm/slide114.html)
1995 - French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.[8] (http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/nukenotes/mj96nukenote.html)
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. [9] (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/june97/mcveigh_6-13.html)
2004 - A 4 kg meteorite hits the house of Phil and Brenda Archer in Ellerslie, New Zealand, destroying the roof and a couch.

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Births

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800-1899

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)
1867 - William Sealey Gosset - chemist and statistician
1870 - Jules Bordet, physicist and microbiologist (d. 1961)
1887 - Bruno Frank, author (d. 1945)
1889 - Adolphe Pegoud, Pioneer Acrobatic Pilot (d. 1915)
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)

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1900-1999

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
1941 - Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
1943 - Malcolm McDowell, actor
1945 - Whitley Strieber, author
1948 - English snooker player
1951 - Richard Thomas, actor
1962 - Ally Sheedy, actress
1963 - Bettina Bunge, tennis player
1964 - Kathy Burke, actress and comedien
1966 - Grigori Perelman, mathematician
1970 - Rivers Cuomo, singer, guitar player ("Weezer")
1970 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
1973 - Sam Adams, American football player
1974 - Steve-O, television personality
1979 - Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
1986 - The Olsen twins, actresses

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Deaths

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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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