June 13

Events

1625 - King Charles I of England|Charles I is married to the France|French princess Henrietta Maria de House of Bourbon|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|USS ''Jeannette'' is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.

1886 - A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

1898 - Yukon|Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson, Yukon|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 Germany|German dictator as "a silly little monkey".

1935 - In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 Underdog (competition)|underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer in Long Island City, New York|Long Island City, New York, and became the List of heavyweight boxing champions|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 - Hungary|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 of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II .

1982 - Fahd of Saudi Arabia|Fahd becomes Kings of Saudi Arabia|King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid of Saudi Arabia|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 - List of Presidents of France|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 kilogram|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)

1649 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)

1752 - Fanny Burney, english novelist and diarist (d. 1840)

1773 - Thomas Young, English scientist (d. 1829)

1775 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (d. 1833)

1786 - Winfield Scott, U.S. general (d. 1866)

1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)

1865 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)

1870 - Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961)

1876 - William Sealey Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)

1884 - Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)

1887 - Bruno Frank, German author (d. 1945)

1888 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (d. 1935)

1892 - Basil Rathbone, English actor (d. 1967)

1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (d. 1957)

1897 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (d. 1973)

1899 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (d. 1978)

1901 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)

1903 - Harold 'Red' Grange, American football player (d. 1991)

1906 - Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)

1910 - Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)

1910 - Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)

1911 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)

1915 - Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)

1926 - Paul Lynde, American actor (d. 1982)

1928 - John Forbes Nash, American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics

1929 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)

1933 - Tom King (politician)|Tom King, British politician

1935 - Christo, Bugarian artist

1941 - Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer

1943 - Malcolm McDowell, English actor

1945 - Whitley Strieber, American author

1951 - Richard Thomas (actor)|Richard Thomas, American actor

1953 - Tim Allen, American comedian and actor

1959 - Steve Georganas, Australian politician

1961 - Anders Järryd, Swedish tennis player

1962 - Ally Sheedy, American actress

1963 - Bettina Bunge, German tennis player

1964 - Kathy Burke, English actress and comedian

1966 - Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician

1968 - David Gray (musician)|David Gray, British singer and songwriter

1968 - Denise Pearson, British singer and songwriter (Five Star)

1970 - Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer

1970 - Rivers Cuomo, American singer and musician (Weezer)

1970 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)

1973 - Sam Adams (football player)|Sam Adams, American football player

1973 - Leeann Tweeden, American model and television personality

1974 - Steve-O, English television personality

1978 - Ethan Embry, American actor

1979 - Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player

1980 - Darius Vassell, English footballer

1982 - Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian athlete

1986 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses

Deaths

1036 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005)

1231 - Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)

1636 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)

1645 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman

1665 - Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)

1784 - Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)

1881 - Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)

1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)

1918 - Tsar Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (b. 1878)

1931 - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)

1951 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)

1965 - Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)

1972 - Clyde McPhatter, American musician (b. 1932)

1972 - Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)

1979 - Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)

1980 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)

1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)

1986 - Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)

1987 - Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)

1993 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)

1998 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athelete (b. 1911)

2004 - Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)

2004 - Ralph Wiley, American writer (b. 1952)

2005 - Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)

2005 - Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)

2005 - Lane Smith, American actor (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 (mythology)|Vesta

USA – World Children's Day

Queen's Birthday in Australia (second Monday of June: 2005)

External links

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