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
• 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 .
• 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.
• 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. [1]
• 1934 - Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
• 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. [2]
• 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. [3]
• 1970 - "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song. [4]
• 1971 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers. [5]
• 1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison 3 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. [6]
• 1991 - A spectator was killed by lightning at the U.S. Open golf tournament. [7]
• 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.[8]
• 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. [9]
• 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.

Births

• 823 - Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and king of the West Franks (d. 877)
• 1752 - Fanny Burney, novelist and diarist (d. 1840)
• 1786 - Winfield Scott, United States general (d. 1866)
• 1865 - William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1923 (d. 1939)
• 1867 - William Sealey Gosset - chemist and statistician
• 1870 - Jules Bordet, physicist and microbiologist (d. 1961)
• 1887 - Bruno Frank, author (d. 1945)
• 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)
• 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)
• 1933 - Tom King, British politician
• 1935 - Christo, artist
• 1941 - Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
• 1943 - Malcolm McDowell, actor
• 1945 - Whitley Strieber, author
• 1948 - English snooker player
• 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
• 1968 - Denise Pearson , singer/songwriter with pop group Five Star
• 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
• 1979 - Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
• 1986 - The Olsen twins, actresses

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)

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

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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