Major Events
- 1772 Captain James Cook begins his second voyage to the South Seas aboard HMS Resolution to search for Terra Australis (Southern continent)
- 1832 Source of Mississippi River discovered by American geographer Henry Schoolcraft
- 1835 Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw propeller design
- 1870 King Wilhelm I of Prussia sends the "Emser Depeche (Ems Telegram)" to Otto von Bismarck who publishes an edited version to purposely offend the French government precipitating the Franco-German War
- 1966 A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founds the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement) in New York City
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Jul 13 in Film & TV
- 1923 The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland" but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949
Jul 13 in Music
- 1956 RCA releases Elvis Presley's single "Hound Dog", a cover of Big Mama Thorton's original, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, backed with "Don't Be Cruel", written by Otis Blackwell
- 1985 "Live Aid" concerts held at both Wembley Stadium (London, England) and JFK Stadium (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) raises over $70 million for African famine relief
Jul 13 in Sport
- 1930 1st-ever football World Cup competition begins in Uruguay
Did You Know?
Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the "New-York Tribune" reputedly advises his readers to "Go west, young man"
Julius Caesar
Alexandra Feodorovna
Nathan Bedford Forrest
John Jacob Astor IV
Wole Soyinka
Ernő Rubik
Patrick Stewart
Harrison Ford
Ken Jeong
Alberto Ascari
Sofia Muratova
Fun Fact About July 13
Dean of St. Paul's London, Alexander Nowell perfects a way to bottle beer
Famous Weddings
- 1914 British poet and novelist D. H. Lawrence (28) weds Frieda Weekley (34) after obtaining Frieda's divorce from her 1st husband
- 1925 Film producer and co-founder of Walt Disney Productions Walt Disney (23) weds Lillian Bounds (26) at Lewiston's Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Lewiston, Idaho
- 1940 American jazz pianist and bandleader Count Basie weds second wife American Catherine Morgan at the King County courthouse in Seattle, Washington, until her death in 1983
Famous Divorces
- 2007 Environmental activist Laurie Lennard (49) divorces writer Larry David (60) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage
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Jean-Paul Marat
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Frida Kahlo
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