June 13

June 13 is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 201 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.
• 1249 – Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
• 1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.
• 1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
• 1625 – King Charles I marries Henrietta Maria of France, Princess of France
• 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.
• 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.
• 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
• 1893 – Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
• 1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
• 1910 – The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines.
• 1917 – World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
• 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
• 1934 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
• 1944 – World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
• 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 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
• 1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
• 1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
• 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.
• 1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song.
• 1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
• 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
• 1978 – Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
• 1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, 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 man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time).
• 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.
• 1995 – French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
• 1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
• 1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• 1997 – Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India, killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.
• 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.
• 2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
• 2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 2002 – Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the US.
• 2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
• 2007 – The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
• 2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.

Births

• 823 – Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the West Franks (d. 877)
• 1584 – Miyamoto Musashi, Legendary Samurai warrior, artist, and author of The Book of Five Rings (d. 1645)
• 1595 – Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian doctor and scientist (d. 1667)
• 1649 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
• 1672 – Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1741)
• 1752 – Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (d. 1840)
• 1761 – Antonín Vranický, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1820)
• 1763 – José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman (d. 1838)
• 1773 – Thomas Young, English scientist (d. 1829)
• 1775 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (d. 1833)
• 1786 – Winfield Scott, U.S. general (d. 1866)
• 1809 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German painter, author of Struwwelpeter (d. 1894)
• 1822 – Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884)
• 1827 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
• 1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)
• 1863 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
• 1864 – Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist (d. 1922)
• 1864 – Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (d. 1939)
• 1865 – William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
• 1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
• 1876 – William Sealey Gosset, English chemist, statistician (d. 1937)
• 1884 – Anton Drexler, German political figure (d. 1942)
• 1884 – Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
• 1884 – Étienne Gilson, French philosopher (d. 1978)
• 1885 – Henry George Lamond, Australian novelist (d. 1969)
• 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)
• 1894 – Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
• 1894 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (d. 1978)
• 1901 – Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
• 1903 – Red Grange, American football player (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Xian Xinghai, Chinese composer (d. 1945)
• 1906 – Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)
• 1909 – E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian politician (d. 1998)
• 1910 – Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
• 1910 – Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)
• 1910 – Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
• 1911 – Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German-born physicist (d. 1977)
• 1912 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (d. 1943)
• 1915 – Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Teddy Turner, British comedian (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Ben Johnson, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (d. 1944)
• 1920 – Rolf Huisgen, German chemist
• 1922 – Etienne Leroux, Afrikaans author, (d. 1989)
• 1924 – Percy Rodriguez, Canadian actor (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Paul Lynde, American actor (d. 1982)
• 1927 – Slim Dusty, Australian Singer (d. 2003)
• 1928 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, Nobel laureate
• 1928 – Li Ka-shing, Chinese business magnate
• 1929 – Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)
• 1929 – Robert W. Scott, American politician, governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist
• 1931 – Nora Kovach, Hungarian-born American ballerina (d. 2009)
• 1932 – Bob McGrath, American actor
• 1933 – Tom King, British politician
• 1935 – Christo, Bulgarian artist
• 1935 – Jeanne-Claude, French artist (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Samak Sundaravej, Thai 25th Prime Minister (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Michael H. Jordan, American businessman and Chief Executive Officer (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Erich Ribbeck, German football player/manager
• 1939 – Tom Cheek, American baseball broadcaster (d. 2005)
• 1940 – Bobby Freeman, American soul singer
• 1941 – Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
• 1941 – Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player
• 1943 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor
• 1943 – Jim Guy Tucker, American politician, governor of Arkansas
• 1944 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean United Nations Secretary-General
• 1945 – Whitley Strieber, American author
• 1947 – A. G. Lafley, American executive director
• 1948 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 2001)
• 1948 – Joe Roth, American executive, producer and film director
• 1949 – Dennis Locorriere, American singer and guitarist (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show)
• 1949 – Ulla Schmidt, German politician
• 1950 – Belinda Bauer, Australian actress
• 1950 – Michael Stark, Australian actor
• 1950 – Gerd Zewe, German footballer
• 1951 – Richard Thomas, American actor
• 1951 – Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
• 1951 – Robert P. Young, Jr., Michigan Supreme Court justice
• 1952 – Tony Bruno, American talkshow host
• 1952 – Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian politician and former judoka
• 1953 – Tim Allen, American comedian and actor
• 1954 – Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician
• 1954 – Rita Cadillac, Brazilian dancer
• 1955 – Leah Ward Sears, Chief Justice Georgia Supreme Court
• 1955 – Alan Hansen, Scottish football pundit
• 1959 – Boyko Borisov, Bulgarian politician
• 1959 – Steve Georganas, Australian politician
• 1959 – Lance Kinsey, Canadian actor
• 1961 – Anders Järryd, Swedish tennis player
• 1962 – Ally Sheedy, American actress
• 1962 – Glenn Michibata, Canadian professional tennis player
• 1962 – Davey Hamilton, American racing driver
• 1962 – Hannah Storm, American television personality
• 1963 – Bettina Bunge, German tennis player
• 1963 – Paul De Lisle, American musician (Smash Mouth)
• 1963 – Catarina Lindqvist, Swedish tennis player
• 1964 – Kathy Burke, English actress
• 1964 – Sarunas Marciulionis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1964 – Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian composer
• 1965 – Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca
• 1965 – Vassilis Karapialis, Greek footballer
• 1965 – Lukas Ligeti, Austrian composer and drummer
• 1965 – Lisa Vidal, American actress
• 1966 – Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
• 1966 – Naoki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
• 1967 – Taşkın Aksoy, Turkish footballer
• 1968 – David Gray, British musician
• 1968 – Denise Pearson, British singer (Five Star)
• 1968 – Fabio Baldato, Italian cyclist
• 1968 – Spike Breakwell, British comedian
• 1968 – Marcel Theroux, British writer and broadcaster
• 1968 – Darren Dreger, Canadian sportscaster
• 1969 – Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian athlete
• 1969 – Søren Nystrøm Rasted
• 1970 – Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
• 1970 – Rivers Cuomo, American musician (Weezer)
• 1970 – Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
• 1972 – Natalie MacMaster, Canadian musician
• 1973 – Sam Adams, American football player
• 1973 – Tanner Foust, American racing driver
• 1973 – Mattias Hellberg, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
• 1973 – Ville Laihiala, Finnish musician (Sentenced, Poisonblack)
• 1973 – Kasia Kowalska, Polish pop rock singer
• 1973 – Leeann Tweeden, American model and television presenter
• 1974 – Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer
• 1974 – Brande Roderick, American actress
• 1974 – Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
• 1974 – Valeri Bure, Russian ice hockey player
• 1974 – Steve-O, American stunt performer and television personality
• 1975 – Ante Covic, Australian footballer
• 1975 – Johannes Grenzfurthner, Austrian artist, writer, curator and director
• 1975 – Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer
• 1975 – Jennifer Nicole Lee, American model
• 1976 – Kym Marsh, English singer, actress and T.V. presenter
• 1976 – Jason 'J' Brown, English Singer
• 1978 – Ethan Embry, American actor
• 1978 – Mathis Künzler, Swiss actor
• 1978 – Jason Michael Carroll, country musician
• 1978 – Mikako Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
• 1979 – Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
• 1980 – Darius Vassell, English footballer
• 1980 – Florent Malouda, French footballer
• 1980 – Jamario Moon, American basketball player
• 1980 – Markus Winkelhock, German racing driver
• 1980 – Sarah Connor, German singer
• 1981 – Chris Evans, American actor
• 1982 – Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian athlete
• 1983 – Matt Allison, British racing driver
• 1983 – Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player
• 1983 – Ryan Conferido, American dancer
• 1984 – Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
• 1985 – Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese racing driver
• 1985 – Silvio Bankert, German footballer
• 1985 – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Kat Dennings, American actress
• 1986 – Ashley Olsen, American actress
• 1986 – Mary-Kate Olsen, American actress
• 1986 – Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer
• 1988 – Gabe Carimi, American football player
• 1988 – Austin Thornton, American drummer (Woe, Is Me)
• 1989 – Tommy Searle, English motocross racer
• 1989 – Lisa Tucker, American singer
• 1990 – Aaron Johnson, English actor

Deaths

• 1036 – Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005)
• 1231 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
• 1256 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
• 1636 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
• 1645 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
• 1665 – Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
• 1760 – Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. 1696)
• 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)
• 1898 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)
• 1904 – Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
• 1918 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II (b. 1878) (murdered)
• 1930 – Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
• 1931 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
• 1943 – Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
• 1951 – Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
• 1954 – Henry Blogg, English lifeboatman, George Cross and British Empire Medal recipient (b. 1876)
• 1958 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
• 1965 – Martin Buber, Austrian-born Israeli philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1965 – David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)
• 1972 – Clyde McPhatter, American musician (b. 1932)
• 1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. 1891)
• 1972 – Dündar Taşer, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925)
• 1977 – Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins) (b. 1956)
• 1979 – Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Demetrio Stratos, Italian musician (b. 1945)
• 1980 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)
• 1982 – King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)
• 1982 – Riccardo Paletti, Formula One driver (b. 1958)
• 1984 – António Variações, Portuguese hairdresser and musician (b. 1944)
• 1986 – Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)
• 1987 – Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Fran Allison, American, early television personality (Kukla, Fran and Ollie) (b. 1907)
• 1993 – Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)
• 1993 – Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
• 1997 – Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer and intellectual (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Reg Smythe, British comic artist (Andy Capp) (b. 1917)
• 2002 – John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Former caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
• 2005 – Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)
• 2005 – David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Charles Haughey, Taoiseach (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Walid Eido, Lebanese MP (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Tim Russert, American television host, NBC News Meet the Press moderator (b. 1950)
• 2008 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2009 – Fathi Yakan, Lebanese leader and Muslim cleric (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church
  • Blessed Thomas Woodhouse
  • Cetteus
  • Pope Leo III
  • June 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Quinquatrus Minusculae, in honor of Minerva. (Roman Empire)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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