June 13th Events |
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| June 13th, 2007 (June 13 2007) | Event | The Al Askari Mosque is bombed again. | |
| June 13th, 2005 (June 13 2005) | Event | A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch. | Michael Jackson Quotes |
| June 13th, 2002 (June 13 2002) | Event | The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. | |
| June 13th, 2000 (June 13 2000) | Event | 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. | |
| June 13th, 2000 (June 13 2000) | Event | Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. | |
| June 13th, 1997 (June 13 1997) | Event | A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. | |
| June 13th, 1996 (June 13 1996) | Event | The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents. | |
| June 13th, 1995 (June 13 1995) | Event | French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia. | |
| June 13th, 1994 (June 13 1994) | Event | 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. | |
| June 13th, 1983 (June 13 1983) | Event | Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system. | |
| June 13th, 1982 (June 13 1982) | Event | Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid. | |
| June 13th, 1981 (June 13 1981) | Event | At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II. | |
| June 13th, 1978 (June 13 1978) | Event | Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon. | |
| June 13th, 1977 (June 13 1977) | Event | Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before. | Martin Luther Quotes |
| June 13th, 1971 (June 13 1971) | Event | Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers. | |
| June 13th, 1970 (June 13 1970) | Event | "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles last Number 1 song. | |
| June 13th, 1967 (June 13 1967) | Event | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| June 13th, 1966 (June 13 1966) | Event | The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them. | |
| June 13th, 1956 (June 13 1956) | Event | Real Madrid wins the inaugural European Champion Clubs Cup final, defeating Stade de Reims 4-3 at the Parc des Princes, Paris. | |
| June 13th, 1955 (June 13 1955) | Event | Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered. | |
| June 13th, 1953 (June 13 1953) | Event | Hungarian Prime Minister Matyas Rakosi is replaced by Imre Nagy | |
| June 13th, 1952 (June 13 1952) | Event | Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter. | |
| June 13th, 1944 (June 13 1944) | Event | World War II: Germany launches a counter attack on Carentan. | |
| June 13th, 1944 (June 13 1944) | Event | World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on Englandied in Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets. | |
| June 13th, 1942 (June 13 1942) | Event | The United States opens its Office of War Information. | |
| June 13th, 1935 (June 13 1935) | Event | In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and becomes the heavyweight champion of the world. | |
| June 13th, 1934 (June 13 1934) | Event | Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey". | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| June 13th, 1927 (June 13 1927) | Event | Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City. | |
| June 13th, 1917 (June 13 1917) | Event | 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. | |
| June 13th, 1898 (June 13 1898) | Event | Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital. | |
| June 13th, 1893 (June 13 1893) | Event | Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president s death. | Grover Cleveland Quotes |
| June 13th, 1886 (June 13 1886) | Event | A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia. | |
| June 13th, 1886 (June 13 1886) | Event | King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM. | |
| June 13th, 1881 (June 13 1881) | Event | The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack. | |
| June 13th, 1871 (June 13 1871) | Event | In Labrador, a hurricane kills 300 people. | |
| June 13th, 1805 (June 13 1805) | Event | Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River. | |
| June 13th, 1798 (June 13 1798) | Event | Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded. | |
| June 13th, 1777 (June 13 1777) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army. | |
| June 13th, 1774 (June 13 1774) | Event | Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves. | |
| June 13th, 1625 (June 13 1625) | Event | King Charles I marries French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon | |
| June 13th, 1525 (June 13 1525) | Event | Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns. | Martin Luther Quotes |
