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What happened on June 13
- June 13, 1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed
- June 13, 1525 "Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy doctrine decreed by the Roman Catholic Church on priests and nuns."
- June 13, 1611 John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
- June 13, 1625 King Charles I is married to the French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon
- June 13, 1774 Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves
- June 13, 1777 Marquis de Lafayette lands in US
- June 13, 1789 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
- June 13, 1798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
- June 13, 1837 "First Mormon missionaries to the British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio"
- June 13, 1866 House passes 14th Amendment
- June 13, 1871 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
- June 13, 1871 "In Labrador, a hurricane kills 300 people."
- June 13, 1881 The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
- June 13, 1886 "A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia."
- June 13, 1886 "Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC"
- June 13, 1886 King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
- June 13, 1888 Congress creates the Department of Labor
- June 13, 1889 2 feet of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming
- June 13, 1890 Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named
- June 13, 1893 "Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death."
- June 13, 1895 �mile Levassor wins first Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
- June 13, 1898 "Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital."
- June 13, 1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
- June 13, 1907 "Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2?F in Tamarack Calif"
- June 13, 1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes first 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila
- June 13, 1910 "William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia"
- June 13, 1917 "deadliest German air raid on London during WWI carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries."
- June 13, 1927 A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.
- June 13, 1927 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
- June 13, 1930 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
- June 13, 1933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
- June 13, 1933 First sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)
- June 13, 1934 "Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as ""a silly little monkey""."
- June 13, 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."
- June 13, 1940 "HMS ODIN, sunk off southern Italy in Gulf of Taranto by torpedo and gunfire of Italian destroyer 'Strale'."
- June 13, 1940 Paris evacuated before the German advance
- June 13, 1941 Battle for Jezzine
- June 13, 1942 "First V-2 rocket launch, Peenem�nde, Germany; reached 1.3 km"
- June 13, 1942 The United States opens its Office of War Information.
- June 13, 1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
- June 13, 1945 Australians capture Brunei
- June 13, 1948 "Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th"
- June 13, 1952 "Catalina affair, a Swedish Douglas DC-3 was shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter."
- June 13, 1953 Hungarian Prime Minister Mtys Rkosi is replaced by Imre Nagy
- June 13, 1953 Tim Allen (real name: Tim Allen Dick) born.
- June 13, 1955 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France
- June 13, 1955 "Mir Mine, the first diamond mine of the USSR, is discovered."
- June 13, 1956 "Real Madrid win the inaugural European Champion Clubs' Cup final, defeating Stade de Reims 4-3 at the Parc des Princes, Paris."
- June 13, 1966 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
- June 13, 1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as first black Supreme Court justice
- June 13, 1967 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
- June 13, 1969 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins the Rolling Stones
- June 13, 1970 """The Long and Winding Road"" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song."
- June 13, 1970 Number one hit on UK music charts - Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime
- June 13, 1971 "NY Times began publishing ""The Pentagon Papers"""
- June 13, 1971 Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers.
- June 13, 1977 Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
- June 13, 1978 Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
- June 13, 1981 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
- June 13, 1981 "At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II."
- June 13, 1981 Number one hit on UK music charts - Smokey Robinson - Being With You
- June 13, 1981 Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
- June 13, 1981 "Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on ""Tomorrow"""
- June 13, 1982 Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
- June 13, 1983 Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system.
- June 13, 1986 Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
- June 13, 1987 "Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina"
- June 13, 1988 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
- June 13, 1990 "Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya"
- June 13, 1990 "Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term,"
- June 13, 1994 "A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages."
- June 13, 1995 French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
- June 13, 1996 The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
- June 13, 1997 A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
- June 13, 2000 "Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981."
- June 13, 2000 "President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang."
- June 13, 2005 "A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch."
- June 13, 2007 Al Askari Mosque bombed again.
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