June 13

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June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

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] (http://roynagl.topcities.com/lindbergh2.htm)
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] (http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/features/display.var.497874.0.facing_hitlers_terror_weapons.php)
1953 - Hungarian Prime Minister M�ty�s R�kosi 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] (http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_history/subs_timeline/images_associates/082.html)
1970 - "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song. [4] (http://www.beatles.com/html/thelongandwindingroad/)
1971 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers. [5] (http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/48.htm)
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] (http://quest.nasa.gov/sso/cool/pioneer10/mission/)
1991 - A spectator was killed by lightning at the U.S. Open golf tournament. [7] (http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/slide-show/tstm/slide114.html)
1993 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)
1995 - French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.[8] (http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/nukenotes/mj96nukenote.html)
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] (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/june97/mcveigh_6-13.html)
2004 - A 4 kg meteorite hits the house of Phil and Brenda Archer in Ellerslie, New Zealand, destroying the roof and a couch.