13th June

Events

• 1373 - England and Portugal sign a treaty of alliance which has never been broken
• 1774 - Rhode Island is the first colony to outlaw the importation of slaves
• 1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded
• 1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital
• 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
• 1966 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them
• 1967 - Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court
• 1970 - "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song
• 1971 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers
• 1973 - Vietnam War - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho sign a peace agreement
• 1982 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia
• 1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system

Births

• 823 - Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and king of the West Franks (+ 877)
• 1786 - Winfield Scott, United States general (+ 1866)
• 1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (+ 1896)
• 1865 - William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1923 (+ 1939)
• 1870 - Jules Bordet, physicist and microbiologist (+ 1961)
• 1887 - Bruno Frank, author (+ 1945)
• 1892 - Basil Rathbone, actor (+ 1967)
• 1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers, author (+ 1957)
• 1897 - Paavo Nurmi, runner (+ 1973)
• 1903 - Harold 'Red' Grange, American football player (+ 1991)
• 1913 - Kid Azteca, boxer (+ 2002)
• 1913 - Ralph Edwards, television host
• 1915 - Don Budge, tennis player (+ 2000)
• 1926 - Paul Lynde, actor (+ 1982)
• 1933 - Tom King, British politician
• 1935 - Christo, artist
• 1943 - Malcolm McDowell, actor
• 1948 - Garnet Bailey, ice hockey player & scout (+ 2001)
• 1951 - Richard Thomas, actor
• 1951 - Stellan Skarsgård, actor
• 1953 - Tim Allen, actor
• 1962 - Ally Sheedy, actress
• 1970 - Rivers Cuomo, singer, guitar player (Weezer)
• 1974 - Steve-O, television personality
• 1986 - The Olsen twins, actresses

Deaths

• 1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria
• 1918 - Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (AKA Grand Duke Michael), Tsar Mikhail II of Russia
• 1946 - Major Bowes, radio host
• 1972 - Clyde McPhatter, musician
• 1979 - Darla Hood, actress
• 1980 - Walter Rodney, historian, political figure
• 1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia
• 1986 - Benny Goodman, musician
• 1987 - Geraldine Page, actress
• 1989 - Fran Allison, actress, television personality
• 1998 - Reg Smythe, Andy Capp cartoonist
• 2003 - Hein ten Hoff, German boxing athlete

Holidays and observances

• Feast of St Anthony of Padua
• Roman Empire - Quinquatrus Minusculae held in honor of Minerva
• Roman Empire - seventh day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta

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