Title: June 13 Content: == Events == === Up to 1960 === * 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. * 1373 The Anglo- Portuguese Alliance takes effect. * 1381 The Peasants' Revolt in England, led by Wat Tyler, ends in the burning of the Savoy Palace. * 1525 Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora. * 1625 Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland marries Henrietta Maria of France. * 1665 Anglo-Dutch War: English victory at the naval Battle of Lowestoft. * 1733 The island of Croix in the Caribbean goes from French control to the Danish West India Company. * 1740 In the present-day United States, Georgia's Governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of Saint Augustine. * 1774 Rhode Island bans the import 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: Meriwether Lewis and four companions see the Great Falls on the Missouri River. * 1858 Up to 250 passengers are killed in an explosion on the paddle steamer Pennsylvania on the Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tennessee. * 1881 The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack. * 1886 A fire destroys much of Vancouver. * 1886 Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in the Starnberger See (Starnberg Lake). His doctor was also found dead. The exact circumstances of their deaths remain a mystery. * 1893 Grover Cleveland secretly undergoes a successful operation to remove a large cancerous portion of his jaw. * 1898 The Yukon Territory is split from Canada's Northwest Territories. Dawson becomes the capital. Later, the capital moves to Whitehorse * 1910 The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is founded. * 1917 A World War I German air raid on London kills 162 people. * 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. * 1935 Jim Braddock wins the World Heavyweight Boxing title by defeating Max Baer. * 1946 King Umberto II of Italy goes into exile in Portugal as Italy becomes a republic after a referendum on June 2. * 1950 Hugo Koblet wins the 33rd edition of the Giro d'Italia cycling race. As a Swiss, he is the first non-Italian to win the event. * 1952 Catalina Affair: A Swedish DC-3 aircraft is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter. * 1955 The Mir Mine, the first Soviet diamond mine, is discovered. * 1956 In football, Real Madrid wins the first European Cup, defeating Stade Reims 4-3 in Paris. === 1961 2000 === * 1967 Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice on the United States Supreme Court. * 1967 The Soviet Union calls for action against Israel. * 1970 The Long and Winding Road becomes The Beatles' last US Number One hit song. * 1971 The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers. * 1974 The 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany begins. * 1977 James Earl Ray, who was convicted of killing Martin Luther King, Jr., is recaptured following his escape from prison three days earlier. * 1978 Israel's Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon. * 1981 Marcus Serjeant fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II during the Trooping the Colour parade. * 1982 Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia, succeeding his deceased half-brother Khalid. * 1982 Racing driver Riccardo Paletti is killed when he crashes on the start grid of the Canadian Grand Prix. * 1983 Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the Solar System. * 1990 Official demolition of the Berlin Wall begins. * 1991 The 1998 Winter Olympics are given to Nagano, Japan. * 1994 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazlewood for the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989. * 1995 Jacques Chirac announces that France will continue to carry out nuclear testing in French Polynesia. * 1996 Guernsey votes to end its ban on abortion. * 1997 The Uphaar cinema fire in New Delhi kills 59 people. * 1997 Timothy McVeigh is sentenced to death for the Oklahoma bombing. * 2000 South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il meet at the first inter- Korean summit, in Pyongyang. * 2000 Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot at Pope John Paul II in 1981. === From 2001 === * 2002 The US 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 on the Yangju highway, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the US and South Korea. * 2005 Irish becomes one of the official languages of the European Union. * 2005 Michael Jackson is found not guilty of child molestation at his Neverland Ranch. * 2011 Two strong aftershocks, following the February 22 earthquake, hit Christchurch, New Zealand, measuring at 5.5 and 6 magnitude, causing more damage, liquefaction, and 10 injuries. * 2012 At least 93 people are killed in a series of bombings across Iraq. * 2014 2014 FIFA World Cup: Previous champions, Spain, are beaten 5-1 by the Netherlands in a group match. They had beaten the Dutch in the final of the previous World Cup. It is the worst opening-day result of any defending champion in the history of tournament. * 2019 Two oil tankers are attacked in the Strait of Hormuz; The governments of the United States and United Kingdom blame Iran for the attacks. == Births == === Up to 1800 === * 40 Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (d. 93) * 823 Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the West Franks (d. 877) * 839 Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks (d. 888) * 1508 Alesandro Piccolomini, Italian writer and philosopher (d. 1579) * 1584 Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese Samurai warrior, artist and writer (d. 1645) * 1595 Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (d. 1667) * 1615 Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700) * 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 (d. 1840) * 1753 Johan Afzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1837) * 1761 Antonin Vranicky, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1820) * 1763 José Bonifacio de Andrade, Brazilian statesman (d. 1838) * 1773 Thomas Young, English polymath (d. 1829) * 1775 Antoni Radziwill, Polish politician (d. 1833) * 1786 Winfield Scott, American general (d. 1866) * 1790 José Antonio Sáez, President of Venezuela (d. 1873) === 1801 1900 === * 1809 Heinrich Hoffmann, German painter and writer (d. 1894) * 1821 Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, French historian, publicist and statesman (d. 1901) * 1822 Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1894) * 1827 Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882) * 1831 James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish inventor and physicist (d. 1879) * 1854 Charles Algernon Parsons, Anglo-Irish engineer (d. 1931) * 1863 Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935) * 1864 Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish professor (d. 1922) * 1865 William Butler Yeats, Irish writer (d. 1939) * 1866 Aby Warburg, German art historian (d. 1929) * 1870 Jules Bordet, Belgian doctor, won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961) * 1874 Leopoldo Lugones, Argentine poet (d. 1938) * 1875 Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and physician (d. 1932) * 1876 William Sealey Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937) * 1882 Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1960) * 1884 Dobri Bozhilov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1945) * 1884 Burrill Bernard Crohn, American physician (d. 1983) * 1884 Anton Drexler, German political figure (d. 1942) * 1885 Henry George Lamond, Australian novelist (d. 1959) * 1887 André François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (d. 1978) * 1887 Bruno Frank, German writer (d. 1957) * 1888 Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (d. 1935) * 1892 Basil Rathbone, British actor (d. 1967) * 1893 Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer (d. 1957) * 1894 Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981) * 1894 Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (d. 1986) * 1894 Tay Garnett, American movie director (d. 1977) * 1897 Paavo Nurmi, Finnish athlete (d. 1973) * 1899 Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer, conductor, theorist and journalist (d. 1978) === 1901 1950 === * 1901 Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985) * 1903 Red Grange, American football player (d. 1991) * 1905 Doc Cheatham, American trumpeter, singer and bandleader (d. 1997) * 1905 Xian Xinghai, Chinese composer (d. 1945) * 1906 Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985) * 1908 Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (d. 1992) * 1908 Hassan ibn Yahya, Prime Minister of North Yemen (d. 2003) * 1909 E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 1998) * 1910 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999) * 1910 Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001) * 1910 Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995) * 1911 Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist (d. 1988) * 1914 Barbara Reynolds, English author and lexicographer (d. 2015) * 1915 Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000) * 1917 Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan writer (d. 2005) * 1917 Teddy Turner, English actor and comedian (d. 1992) * 1920 Rolf Huisgen, German chemist (d. 2020) * 1921 Lennart Strand, Swedish runner (d. 2004) * 1926 Paul Lynde, American comedian and actor (d. 1982) * 1926 Jerome Lejeune, French physician and geneticist (d. 1994) * 1927 Slim Dusty, Australian singer (d. 2003) * 1928 John Forbes Nash, American mathematician (d. 2015) * 1928 Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (d. 2015) * 1928 Li Ka-shing, Chinese businessman * 1929 Ralph McQuarrie, American production designer (d. 2012) * 1929 Robert W. Scott, 67th Governor of North Carolina (d. 2009) * 1932 Bob McGrath, American actor and singer * 1935 Samak Sundaravej, former Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2009) * 1935 Christo, Bulgarian artist (d. 2020) * 1935 Jeanne-Claude, French artist (d. 2009) * 1937 Erich Ribbeck, German football manager * 1939 Siegfried, German-born tiger trainer and magician (Siegfried and Roy) (d. 2021) * 1940 Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter, pianist and producer (d. 2017) * 1940 Gojko Mitic, Serbian actor * 1941 Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer * 1941 Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player, coach and manager * 1942 Abdulsalami Abubakar, former President of Nigeria * 1943 Malcolm McDowell, English actor * 1943 Jim Guy Tucker, 43rd Governor of Arkansas * 1944 Ban Ki-moon, South Korean Secretary-General of the United Nations * 1946 Gonzalo Aja, Spanish cyclist * 1946 Sher Bahadur Deuba, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal * 1946 Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist * 1948 Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 2001) * 1948 Joe Roth, American director and producer * 1949 Ulla Schmidt, German politician * 1950 Gerd Zewe, German footballer * 1950 Nick Brown, British politician === 1951 1975 === * 1951 Richard Thomas, American actor * 1951 Stellan Skarsgaard, Swedish actor * 1953 Tim Allen, American actor * 1954 Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician (d. 2011) * 1954 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist and politician * 1955 Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer * 1957 Roy Cooper, American politician, 75th Governor of North Carolina * 1958 Peter Scudamore, British jockey and trainer * 1959 Lance Kinsey, Canadian actor * 1959 Boyko Borisov, three-time Prime Minister of Bulgaria * 1959 Klaus Iohannis, 5th President of Romania * 1961 Bob Crow, English trade union leader (d. 2014) * 1962 Ally Sheedy, American actress * 1964 Kathy Burke, English actress * 1964 Sarunas Marciulionis, Lithuanian basketball player * 1965 Lisa Vidal, American actress * 1965 Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca, Spanish royal * 1966 Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician * 1966 Naoko Hattori, Japanese racing driver * 1968 David Gray, British singer * 1968 Marcel Theroux, British writer and broadcaster * 1969 Virginie Despentes, French writer, novelist and movie maker * 1969 Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian athlete * 1969 Soren Rasted, Danish singer-songwriter, musician and producer * 1969 Jamie Walters, American entertainer * 1970 Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer * 1970 Rivers Cuomo, American musician * 1970 Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004) * 1973 Mattias Hellberg, Swedish musician * 1973 Kasia Kowalska, Polish singer-songwriter, producer and actress * 1974 Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer * 1974 Steve-O, American stunt performer and TV personality * 1975 Ante Covic, Australian footballer === From 1976 === * 1976 Kym Marsh, English singer, actress and TV presenter * 1978 Mikako Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model * 1978 Richard Kingson, Ghanaian footballer * 1980 Sarah Connor, German singer * 1980 Darius Vassell, English footballer * 1980 Florent Malouda, French footballer * 1980 Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player * 1981 Julie-Marie Parmentier, French actress * 1981 Radim Vrbata, Czech ice hockey player * 1982 Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian long-distance runner * 1982 Chris Cusiter, Scottish rugby union player * 1986 Mary-Kate & Ashely Olsen, American actresses * 1986 Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer * 1986 Kat Dennings, American actress * 1986 Mans Zelmerlow, Swedish singer * 1989 Lisa Tucker, American singer and actress * 1990 Aaron Johnson, English actor * 1991 Barbara Bonansea, Italian footballer * 1991 Anatoly Zabolotny, Russian footballer * 1992 Kim Jin-su, South Korean footballer * 1993 Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (d. 2011) * 1993 Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (d. 2018) * 1996 Kodi Smit-McPhee, Australian actor == Deaths == === Up to 1975 === * 1036 Ali az-Zahir, Islamic ruler (b. 1005) * 1231 Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195) * 1256 Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173) * 1645 Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman and author (b. 1584) * 1762 Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, German doctor (b. 1715) * 1784 Henry Middleton, American politician (b. 1717) * 1817 Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Irish author and engineer (b. 1744) * 1846 Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyries, French geographer, author and translator (b. 1767) * 1881 Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805) * 1886 King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845) * 1898 Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840) * 1901 Leopoldo Alas, Spanish writer (b. 1852) * 1905 Theodoros Deligiannis, Greek statesman (b. 1820) * 1908 Antonio Gonzalez de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1824) * 1918 Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1878) * 1930 Henry Segrave, American-English racing driver (b. 1896) * 1931 Kitasato Shibasaburo, Japanese physician (b. 1851) * 1948 Osamu Dazai, Japanese writer (b. 1909) * 1951 Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885) * 1957 Irving Baxter, American athlete (b. 1876) * 1965 Martin Buber, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1878) * 1972 Georg von Bekesy, Hungarian biophysicist (b. 1899) * 1972 Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian- German spy (b. 1891) === 1976 2010 === * 1979 Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian- Italian singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1945) * 1980 Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942) * 1982 Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (b. 1958) * 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, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1924) * 1997 Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer (b. 1909) * 1998 Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911) * 2003 Malik Meraj Khalid, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916) * 2003 Hassan ibn Yahya, Prime Minister of North Yemen (b. 1908) * 2004 Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914) * 2006 Charles Haughey, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1925) * 2007 Walid Eido, Lebanese politician (b. 1942) * 2008 Tim Russert, American broadcast journalist (b. 1950) * 2009 Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (b. 1962) * 2010 Jimmy Dean, American singer (b. 1928) === From 2011 === * 2012 William Standish Knowles, American chemist (b. 1917) * 2012 Roger Garaudy, French philosopher, author and Holocaust denier (b. 1913) * 2014 Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer (b. 1926) * 2014 Robert Peters, American poet, playwright and actor (b. 1924) * 2014 Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and futurologist (b. 1933) * 2014 Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (b. 1932) * 2014 Robert Peters, American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor and actor (b. 1924) * 2014 Jim Keays, Australian rock musician (b. 1946) * 2014 Sara Widén, Swedish opera singer (b. 1980) * 2015 Drs. P, Swiss-Dutch singer-songwriter, poet and writer (b. 1919) * 2015 Buddy Boudreaux, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1917) * 2016 Ofelya Hambardzumyan, Armenian singer (b. 1925) * 2016 Oleg Karavaychuk, Soviet-Russian composer (b. 1927) * 2016 Chips Moman, American songwriter (b. 1937) * 2017 A. R. Gurney, American playwright (b. 1927) * 2017 Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (b. 1924) * 2017 Jack Ong, American actor (b. 1940) * 2017 Anita Pallenberg, Italian actress (b. 1944) * 2017 Ulf Stark, Swedish screenwriter and author (b. 1944) * 2018 Arkangel de la Muerte, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1966) * 2018 Anne Donovan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1961) * 2018 D. J. Fontana, American rock music drummer (b. 1931) * 2018 Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (b. 1933) * 2019 Pat Bowlen, American sports executive (b. 1944) * 2019 Nature Ganganbaigal, Chinese musician and composer (b. 1990) * 2019 Edith González, Mexican actress (b. 1964) * 2019 Geoff Lees, English footballer (b. 1933) * 2019 Heinrich Reichert, Swiss neurobiologist (b. 1949) * 2019 Wilhelm Wieben, German television journalist, actor and author (b. 1935) * 2020 Sheikh Md Abdullah, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1945) * 2020 Dick Garmaker, American basketball player (b. 1932) * 2020 Jim Grelle, American runner (b. 1936) * 2020 B. Kannan, Indian cinematographer (b. 1951) * 2020 Mohammed Nasim, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1948) * 2020 Maurice Rajsfus, French writer and historian (b. 1928) * 2020 Jean Raspail, French author and explorer (b. 1925) * 2020 Tineke Verburg, Dutch journalist and television presenter (b. 1956) * 2020 Marc Zermati, French record producer (b. 1945) == Holidays and Observances == * Inventors' Day (Hungary) Category:Days of the year