June 13

2024 Calendar

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

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)