Historical Events on June 13

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• 1392 Assassination attempt on Olivier de Clisson, Constable of France, by Pierre de Craon fails

• 1611 John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
• 1665 Battle of Lowestoft, off Suffolk, England: English fleet beats Dutch
• 1707 Hungary declares itself independent under Ferenc Rákóczi II (aka Francis II Rákóczi)
• 1721 England signs Treaty of Madrid
• 1727 Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris
• 1753 Austria, Great Britain & Modena sign secret military treaty
• 1774 Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves
• 1777 Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit

• 1789 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington

• 1798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California

• 1837 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
• 1854 Anthony Faas, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, patents the 1st US accordion, having made improvements to both the keyboard, and to enhance the sound (Patent No. 11,062)

• 1863 Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon" in Christchurch, New Zealand
• 1863 Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia
• 1863 Skirmish at Berryville, Virginia

• 1866 US House of representatives passes the 14th Amendment (Civil rights)
• 1868 Oscar Dunn becomes first African American to be elected a Lieutenant Governor, of Louisiana
• 1871 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
• 1878 Congress of Berlin begins, determines the territories of the states in the Balkan peninsula following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78
• 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, British Columbia
• 1888 US Congress creates Department of Labor
• 1889 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins, Wyoming
• 1890 Eagle Avenue in the Bronx is cut out and named
• 1895 Emile Levassor wins the first automobile race in history the Paris-Bordeaux-Paris, taking 48 hours and 48 minutes (1,178 km)
• 1898 Yukon Territory of Canada established, 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 New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson throws his 2nd no-hitter, beating Chicago Cubs, 1-0 at West Side Grounds, Chicago
• 1907 Lowest temperature ever in 48 US states for June, 2°F in Tamarack, California

• 1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Philadelphia
• 1910 William D Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed US minister to Liberia
• 1912 NY Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game
• 1913 Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games

• 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 with 432 injuries
• 1918 Phillies and Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings

• 1922 Longest recorded attack of hiccups begins: Charlie Osborne gets the hiccups and continues for 68 years, dies 11 months after it stops
• 1924 Bene Berak, Palestine, founded
• 1924 Gaston Doumergue elected as the 1st protestant French President
• 1924 Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
• 1925 American William DeHart Hubbard sets men's long jump world record at 7.89m (25 ft 10 3⁄4 in) in Chicago, Illinois
• 1925 Charles Jenkins demonstrates the transmission of synchronized pictures and sound (early television)

• 1930 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista, Greece
• 1932 Great Britain and France sign peace treaty
• 1933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady, NY)
• 1933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized

• 1935 Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs v Somerset
• 1936 2nd Belgian government of Van Zealand forms

• 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 Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island
• 1942 The United States opens its Office of War Information, with Elmer Davis as head
• 1942 US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) formed
• 1944 German counterattack 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 after 24 days in the wake of the country declaring itself a republic
• 1947 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)

• 1950 South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
• 1951 UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
• 1952 Soviet fighters shoots down Swedish Air Force Dakota DC-3 reconnaissance plane east of Gotska Sandön in the Baltic Sea, kills entire crew of 8

• 1953 KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast
• 1954 Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine laid in Bronx
• 1956 Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrats 50/KVP 49
• 1956 The last British troops leave the Suez Canal Zone in Egypt
• 1957 Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth, Massachusetts

• 1959 "Sammy Kaye Show" last airs on ABC-TV
• 1960 "Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59
• 1960 Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia

• 1962 Norway named ombudsman
• 1964 Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55)
• 1965 19th Tony Awards: "The Subject Was Roses" (play) & "Fiddler on the Roof" (musical) win
• 1965 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Beverly CC: Susie Maxwell wins by 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Marlene Hagge
• 1965 Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai ends in a Viet Cong victory
• 1966 US Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspects must be informed of rights

• 1970 "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hits #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 "The New York Times" begins 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 British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Willie 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 German sprinter Inge Helten runs female WR 100m (11.04) at Fürth, West Germany

• 1978 Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.

• 1979 Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota

• 1980 US Congressman John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
• 1981 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany

• 1982 Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia after King Khalid dies at 69
• 1983 NASA's Pioneer 10 becomes the 1st man-made object to leave the solar system

• 1986 City of Berlin, Germany dedicates Léon Jessel Platz, a small town square, in memory of composer killed - at age 70 - by the Gestapo in 1943

• 1987 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
• 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 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
• 1989 "Licence to Kill", 16th James Bond film, last directed by John Glen and starring Timothy Dalton premieres in London
• 1989 Houston's Terry Puhl plays in his 1,403rd game (most by a Canadian)

• 1990 Boeing 767 sets non-stop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya

• 1990 Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term
• 1991 NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)
• 1991 The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
• 1993 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected President of Iran
• 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 New Jersey Devils beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4-2 for a 4-2 series win; qualify for their first Stanley Cup Finals Series (beat Detroit Red Wings, 4-0)
• 1996 Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents
• 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

• 2002 The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

• 2006 The US Senate issues a formal resolution apologizing for failure to create anti-lynching legislation

• 2007 The Al Askari Mosque in Samarra is bombed reportedly by Iraqi Baathists, destroying the mosque's two ten-story minarets

• 2010 64th Tony Awards: "Memphis" & "Red" (play) 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

• 2014 Stanley Cup Final, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA: LA Kings edge New York Rangers, 3-2 in double OT for a 4-1 series win; second Championship in LA franchise history
• 2015 Floods in Tbilisi, Georgia, kill 12 people and free animals from the city's zoo, including bears and hippos, to roam the city
• 2015 Philae, 1st spacecraft to land on a comet in European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission re-awakes after 7 months
• 2016 Some Democratic Party members of US House of Representatives protest 'moment of silence' as an inadequate response to mass shooting, and demand legislative action on gun control
• 2017 Otto Warmbier returns to the US in an unresponsive state after being held in Norther Korean jail for 17 months,

• 2017 Warriors win 2nd NBA title in 3 years over the Cavaliers (129-120)
• 2018 Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate - 200 billion tonnes a year, 3 trillion tonnes in 25 years, in report published in "Nature" journal
• 2018 FIFA Congress votes to award 2026 World Cup to joint bid by US, Canada & Mexico
• 2018 Raccoon climbs 23 story office building in St Paul, Minnesota, becoming an internet sensation
• 2018 The Spanish Football Association sacks coach Julen Lopetegui just 2 days out from first World Cup game after he agreed to manage Real Madrid
• 2018 Volkswagen fined €1 billion (£880m) by German prosecutors over diesel emissions scandal
• 2019 Archaeologists announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in lochs) far older than first thought, radiocarbon dated to 3640-3360 BC, older than Stonehenge
• 2019 Kenyan MP Rashid Kassim arrested for slapping female MP Fatuma Gedi, following a walk out of parliament by female MPs after claiming male MPs joked "its slapping day"

• 2021 G7 summits ends in Cornwall, England, with leaders promising one billion vaccine doses for poorer nations

• 2021 US President Joe Biden has tea with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle
• 2022 A Google engineer claims one of its AI systems, Lamda, might have a sentient mind, causing the company to place him on leave [1]
• 2022 MIT researchers propose creating raft of "space bubbles" floating above the earth to reflect the sun's rays and help fight climate change [1]
• 2022 New York Stock Exchange enters bear market territory (defined as falling 20% from a recent high - Jan 3) after the S&P falls 3.9%, amid fears of high inflation and a recession [1]

• 2022 World's largest freshwater fish, a stingray 3.98m x 2.2m caught in the Mekong river, Cambodia (tagged and released) [1]
• 2023 Former US President Donald Trump and his aide Walt Nauta plead not guilty to federal charges of intentionally holding on to classified documents at a court in Miami [1]
• 2023 Stanley Cup Final, T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, NV: Vegas Golden Knights rout Florida Panthers 9-3 to clinch 4-1 series win; franchise's first title in only 6th year in the NHL; MVP: Jonathan Marchessault (VGK forward)
• 2024 Argentina’s upper house narrowly passes President Javier Milei’s controversial economic reforms amid violent protests [1]
• 2024 Elon Musk secures Tesla shareholders approval for a $46 billion pay deal - the largest in American corporate history [1]

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