June 13

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

Events

1625 - King Charles I is married to the French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon
1774 - Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
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.
1871 - In Labrador, a hurricane kills 300 people.
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.
1917 - Germany bombs London
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.
1934 - Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
1935 - In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and became the heavyweight champion of the world.
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.
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.
1970 - "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song.
1971 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers. [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 three 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.
1992 - The Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League logged the first (and, to date, only) shutout in league history, defeating the San Antonio Force, 50-0.
1995 - French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
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.
2000 - President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, ruler of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
2004 - A 4 kg meteorite hits the house of Phil and Brenda Archer in Ellerslie, New Zealand, destroying the roof and a couch.
2005 - Michael Jackson found not guilty on all 10 counts during his child molestation trial.

Births

823 - Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and king of the West Franks (d. 877)
1752 - Fanny Burney, novelist and diarist (d. 1840)
1773 - Thomas Young, scientist, polymath, child prodigy
1786 - Winfield Scott, United States general (d. 1866)
1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, physicist (d. 1879)
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)
1876 - William Sealey Gosset - chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
1884 - Gerald Gardner, witch (d. 1964)
1887 - Bruno Frank, author (d. 1945)
1888 - Fernando Pessoa, portuguese poet (d. 1935)
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)
1901 - Tage Erlander, Swedish Prime Minister (d. 1985)
1903 - Harold 'Red' Grange, American football player (d. 1991)
1906 - Bruno de Finetti, mathematician, statistician (d. 1985)
1910 - Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
1910 - Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
1913 - Kid Azteca, boxer (d. 2002)
1913 - Ralph Edwards, television host
1915 - Don Budge, tennis player (d. 2000)
1926 - Paul Lynde, actor (d. 1982)
1928 - John Forbes Nash, mathematician (Nobel Prize 1994)
1933 - Tom King, British politician
1935 - Christo, artist
1941 - Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
1943 - Malcolm McDowell, actor
1945 - Whitley Strieber, author
1948 - David Hallam, Member of the European Parliament, author
1949 - Simon Callow, British actor
1951 - Richard Thomas, actor
1953 - Tim Allen, US comedian/actor
1962 - Ally Sheedy, actress
1963 - Bettina Bunge, tennis player
1964 - Kathy Burke, actress and comedien
1966 - Grigori Perelman, mathematician
1968 - David Gray, British singer/songwriter
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
1976 - Joseph Tennant, computer programmer, inventor
1978 - Ethan Embry, actor
1979 - Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
1989 - James Schlabach, BBA swimmer

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
1993 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)
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)
2005 - Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician ex-secretary general of the Portuguese Communist Party and writer (b. 1913)
2005 - Jonathan Adams, English actor, starred in the Cult Film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (b. 1931)
2005 - Kenyu Yoshii, Chinese/Japanese Software Test Engineer A.V. Software
2005 - Lane Smith, American actor, starred in the TV series, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (b. 1936)

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
USA – World Children's Day
Queen's Birthday in Australia (second Monday of June: 2005)

External links

BBC: On This Day

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