Notable Historical Events on June 13th
June 13th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1325 |
Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years) |
1373 |
Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest extant) signed in London |
1392 |
Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France fails |
1547 |
King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman |
1611 |
John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication |
1655 |
Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is 1st actress in Amsterdam theater |
1665 |
Battle of Lowestoft, off Suffolk, England: English fleet beats Dutch |
1707 |
Hungary declares itself independent under Ferenc Rákóczi II |
1721 |
England signs Treaty of Madrid |
1727 |
Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris |
1753 |
Austria, England & Modena sign secret military treaty |
1774 |
Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves |
1777 |
Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit |
1777 |
Marquis de Lafayette lands in US |
1789 |
Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington |
1792 |
King Louis XVI dissmisses French government |
1798 |
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California |
1828 |
Simon Bolívar proclaimed dictator |
1837 |
1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio |
1855 |
Opera "Les Vêpres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris) |
1863 |
Battle of Winchester VA |
1863 |
Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon", Christchurch, NZ |
1863 |
Skirmish at Berryville Virginia |
1865 |
President Andrew Johnson proclaims reconstruction of confederate states |
1866 |
US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights) |
1868 |
Oscar J Dunn (a black) is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana |
1871 |
Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador |
1874 |
8th Belmont: G Barbee aboard Saxon wins in 2:39.5 |
1878 |
Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization |
1881 |
The USS Jeannette, under the command of George Washington De Long, sinks in the Arctic circle following 21 months of drifting after becoming trapped in the ice |
1886 |
Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC |
1886 |
King Ludwig II of Bavaria found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM at 40. Builder of palace of Neuschwanstein and patron of Wagner |
1888 |
US Congress creates Department of Labor |
1889 |
2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins, Wyoming |
1889 |
23rd Belmont: W Hayward aboard Eric wins in 2:47.25 |
1890 |
Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named |
1895 |
Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph) |
1898 |
Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital |
1900 |
In China, Baron von Kettler, the German minister to China, beats two young Boxers with his walking stick; when word of this circulates, rioting and arson spread throughout Peking during the night. |
1902 |
Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland |
1905 |
NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0 |
1907 |
Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2°F in Tamarack Calif |
1908 |
Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
1910 |
Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila |
1910 |
William D Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia |
1912 |
NY Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game |
1913 |
45th Belmont: Roscoe Troxler aboard Prince Eugene wins in 2:18 |
1913 |
Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games |
1914 |
28th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner (6-2 1-6 6-1) |
1914 |
Eleftherios Venizelos annouces that Greece intends to annex Chios and Mytilene, two large islands off the Turkish coast; Greece and Turkey have been heading towards conflict for months over claims to Aegean islands |
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. |
1918 |
Phillies & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings |
1920 |
Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post |
1921 |
Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8 |
1922 |
Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops |
1924 |
Bene Berak Palestine founded |
1924 |
Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier |
1924 |
Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win |
1925 |
57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8 |
1925 |
Charles Jenkins demonstrates the transmission of synchronized pictures and sound (early television) |
1927 |
Ticker-tape parade welcomes Charles A Lindbergh to NYC |
1930 |
1st Nudist Colony opens |
1930 |
22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece |
1931 |
63rd Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6 |
1932 |
Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta |
1932 |
Great Britain & France sign peace treaty |
1933 |
1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY) |
1933 |
Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized |
1933 |
German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Göring |
1935 |
Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs v Somerset |
1935 |
James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1936 |
2nd Belgian government of Van Zealand forms |
1937 |
Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns |
1937 |
Stalin executes Russian officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna & Uberevitch |
1938 |
Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe v England at Trent Bridge |
1938 |
Jews injured & property destroyed in Przemyal, Poland |
1940 |
Paris evacuates before German advance |
1942 |
1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km |
1942 |
FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head |
1942 |
Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island |
1942 |
US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) formed |
1942 |
The United States opens its Office of War Information. |
1944 |
German counter attack on Villers-Bocage, Normandy |
1944 |
Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) flying bomb (doodle-bugs) attacks |
1945 |
Heerjansdam soccer team forms |
1945 |
Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead |
1946 |
1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland |
1946 |
King Umberto II of Italy abdicates |
1947 |
1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3) |
1948 |
Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th |
1950 |
South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act" |
1951 |
UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea |
1952 |
Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8 |
1953 |
53rd US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont PA |
1953 |
85th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 2:28.6 |
1953 |
Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 & 7-44) v Australia |
1953 |
Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2) |
1953 |
KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1954 |
Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx |
1955 |
Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France |
1956 |
"Shangri-La" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 21 performances |
1956 |
After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control |
1956 |
Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49 |
1956 |
Real Madrid wins 1st Europe Cup |
1957 |
Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth Mass |
1957 |
Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season |
1958 |
Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster Ca |
1959 |
"Sammy Kaye Show" last airs on ABC-TV |
1959 |
59th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot GC NY |
1959 |
91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6 |
1960 |
"Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59 |
1960 |
Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia |
1961 |
"Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 8 performances |
1962 |
"Bob Newhart Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
1962 |
Norway named ombudsman |
1963 |
Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut |
1964 |
Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55) |
1965 |
19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses & Fiddler on the Roof win |
1965 |
Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
1966 |
Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights |
1967 |
"You Only Live Twice" premieres in US |
1967 |
Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice |
1969 |
Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins Rolling Stones |
1970 |
"In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK |
1970 |
Beatles' "Let It Be" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks |
1970 |
Beatles' "Long & Winding Road" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks |
1971 |
17th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
1971 |
The New York Times begin publishing excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, classified documents on the long history of the U.S. in Vietnam |
1971 |
In defiance of a government ban, members of the Orange Order march through the mainly Catholic town of Dungiven, County Londonderry causing a riot |
1972 |
The Irish Republican Army invites Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Whitelaw to 'Free Derry'; Whitelaw rejects offer and reaffirms his policy to not "let part of the United Kingdom ... default from the rule of law" |
1972 |
The Irish Republican Army invites Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Whitelaw to 'Free Derry'; Whitelaw rejects offer and reaffirms his policy to not "let part of the United Kingdom ... default from the rule of law" |
1973 |
Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8½ years (LA Dodgers) |
1974 |
Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives |
1974 |
IMF establishes its "oil facility", a special fund for loans to nations whose balance of payments have been severely affected by high oil prices |
1976 |
4th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Donna Caponi |
1976 |
Bob Marley performs in Amsterdam |
1976 |
Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04) |
1977 |
Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured |
1978 |
Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon. |
1979 |
"Madwoman of Central Park West" opens at 22 Steps NYC for 86 perfs |
1979 |
Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills SD |
1980 |
Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" hits #1 |
1980 |
Deborah Harry/Meat Loaf film, "Roadie," premieres |
1980 |
Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall" |
1980 |
Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation |
1980 |
UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela |
1981 |
39 Unification church couples wed in Germany |
1981 |
Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II |
1981 |
Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow" |
1982 |
28th LPGA Championship won by Jan Stephenson |
1982 |
Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69 |
1983 |
Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System |
1985 |
"Prizzi's Honor", starring Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, and Anjelica Huston, is released |
1986 |
Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency |
1986 |
Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play |
1987 |
Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina |
1988 |
45th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow |
1988 |
Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East |
1988 |
Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer |
1988 |
George Harrison releases "This is Love" |
1988 |
US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist |
1989 |
43rd NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons sweeps LA Lakers in 4 games |
1989 |
Houston's Terry Puhl plays in his 1,403rd game (most by a Canadian) |
1989 |
Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
1990 |
"Les Miserables" opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary |
1990 |
Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya |
1990 |
Nelson & Winnie Mandela welcomed in NYC |
1990 |
Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term |
1991 |
A spectator is killed by lightning at US Open Golf tournament |
1991 |
NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike) |
1991 |
The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication |
1993 |
"Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" closes at Booth NYC after 232 perfs |
1993 |
39th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
1993 |
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran |
1993 |
YokoZuna beats Hulk Hogan to become WWF champ |
1994 |
Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract |
1994 |
Don Mattingly plays 1st base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most) |
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 |
Indians' Dennis Martinez no-hits Balt 11-0 |
1995 |
NJ Devils beat Phila Flyers, to go to their 1st Stanley Cup finals |
1996 |
Freeman in Montana give up to FBI after 81 days |
1996 |
The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents. |
1997 |
51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2 |
1997 |
Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death |
1997 |
Red Wings Vladimir Konstantinov & Slava Fetisov hurt in car crash |
1997 |
American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16 years on the run, though he would not return for another four years. |
2000 |
Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. |
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 |
Samuel L. Jackson is honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
2001 |
35th TNN & CMT Country Weekly Music Awards: George Strait, Faith Hill & Alan Jackson wins |
2002 |
The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. |
2002 |
Scotty Bowman wins his 9th Stanley Cup as a coach, an NHL record, and retires |
2004 |
50th LPGA Championship won by Annika Sörenstam |
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 again. |
2010 |
64th Tony Awards: Memphis & Red win |
2011 |
Christchurch, New Zealand is hit by another strong earthquake measuring magnitude 6.3 |
2012 |
A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people |
2012 |
San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston Astros |
2014 |
Los Angeles Kings defeat the New York Rangers to win the 2014 Stanley Cup Finals in 5 games |
2017 |
Warriors beat Cavaliers to clinch NBA title |
2017 |
9th Circuit Appeals Court largely upholds block on Trump's revised travel ban |
2018 |
North Korea state media says Trump agreed to lift sanctions against North |
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