Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 13
This is a list of selected June 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Sofia Hellqvist
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria was found dead in Lake Starnberg near Munich under mysterious circumstances. | trivia |
| 1898 – The Yukon Territory was formed in Canada, splitting from the Northwest Territories after the area's population substantially increased due to the Klondike Gold Rush. | outdated |
| 1966 – The Miranda v. Arizona landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court established the Miranda warning, requiring law enforcement to advise suspects in custody of their rights to remain silent and to obtain an attorney. | lots of CN tags (5) |
| 1982 – Fahd became King of Saudi Arabia, succeeding his half-brother Khalid upon the latter's death. | neutrality issues |
| 1997 – In one of the worst fire tragedies in recent Indian history, 59 people died and 103 others were seriously injured during a premiere screening of the film Border at the Uphaar Cinema in Green Park, Delhi. | refimprove section |
| 2010 – The Japanese Hayabusa space mission became the first to return samples of an asteroid (25143 Itokawa) to Earth for analysis. | refimprove section |
| 2015 – The royal wedding between Prince Carl Philip and glamour model Sofia Hellqvist took place in Stockholm, Sweden. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1881 – An Arctic Ocean ice pack crushed the USS Jeannette during its expedition to the North Pole.
- 1525 – Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, beginning the practice of clerical marriage in Protestantism.
- 1935 – In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
- 1952 – Soviet warplanes shot down a Swedish military Douglas DC-3A-360 Skytrain carrying out signals intelligence gathering operations, which was followed by the shootdown of a Catalina flying boat searching for the Skytrain three days later.
- 1955 – Soviet geologists discovered a diamond-bearing deposit in Eastern Siberia, leading to the construction of the Mir mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR and the second-largest excavated hole in the world.
- 1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signed a law converting a research arm of Texas Instruments into the University of Texas at Dallas.
- 1971 – The New York Times began to publish the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page top-secret United States Department of Defense history of the nation's political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.
- 1981 – English teenager Marcus Sarjeant fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony.
- 1983 – Pioneer 10 passed the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.
- 1996 – After an 81-day standoff sparked by their refusal to be evicted from their foreclosed property in Jordan, Montana, U.S., the Christian Patriot group Montana Freemen surrendered to the FBI.
- 2007 – Insurgents carried out a second bombing at the al-Askari Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam.
- 2013 – Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas were arrested for corruption.
- Born/died: Veronica Gambara (d. 1550) | Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet (b. 1617) | Henry Middleton (d. 1784) | W. B. Yeats (b. 1865) | Carolyn Eisele (b. 1902) | Birger Ruud (d. 1998)
Notes
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band appears on May 26, so Long and Winding Road should not appear in the same year
June 13: Queen's Official Birthday in Tuvalu and the United Kingdom (2020)
- 313 – The Edict of Milan, an agreement between Constantine the Great and Licinius to treat Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire, was posted in Nicomedia.
- 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: Meriwether Lewis became the first white American to sight the Great Falls (Black Eagle Falls pictured) of the Missouri River.
- 1944 – Second World War: At the Battle of Villers-Bocage, German tank commander Michael Wittmann destroyed around 30 Allied vehicles in less than 15 minutes.
- 1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
- 2019 – Two oil tankers were attacked in the Gulf of Oman amidst heightened tensions between Iran and the United States.
- Charles Algernon Parsons (b. 1854)
- Karl Blossfeldt (b. 1865)
- Fran Allison (d. 1989)