Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 13
This is a list of selected June 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Henry Grace à Dieu as depicted in the Anthony Roll
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 313 – The Edict of Milan, an agreement between Constantine the Great and Licinius to treat Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire, was posted in Nicomedia. | Too much uncited |
| 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria was found dead in Lake Starnberg near Munich under mysterious circumstances. | trivia |
| 1898 – The Yukon Territory was formed in Canada, splitting from the Northwest Territories after the area's population substantially increased due to the Klondike Gold Rush. | outdated |
| 1955 – Soviet geologists discovered a diamond-bearing deposit in Eastern Siberia, leading to the construction of the Mir mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR and the second-largest excavated hole in the world. | Date not in source cited |
| 1966 – The Miranda v. Arizona landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court established the Miranda warning, requiring law enforcement to advise suspects in custody of their rights to remain silent and to obtain an attorney. | lots of CN tags (5) |
| 1982 – Fahd became King of Saudi Arabia, succeeding his half-brother Khalid upon the latter's death. | neutrality issues |
| 1997 – In one of the worst fire tragedies in recent Indian history, 59 people died and 103 others were seriously injured during a premiere screening of the film Border at the Uphaar Cinema in Green Park, Delhi. | refimprove section |
| 2010 – The Japanese Hayabusa space mission became the first to return samples of an asteroid (25143 Itokawa) to Earth for analysis. | refimprove section |
| 2015 – The royal wedding between Prince Carl Philip and glamour model Sofia Hellqvist took place in Stockholm, Sweden. | unreferenced section |
| 2019 – Two oil tankers were attacked in the Gulf of Oman amidst heightened tensions between Iran and the United States. | Tagged for update needed |
| Fernando Pessoa |b|1888 | refimprove/unreferenced sections |
Eligible
- 1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, the largest warship ever built at the time, was launched from Woolwich Dockyard, England.
- 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: Meriwether Lewis became the first white American to sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
- 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Mont Sorrel in the Ypres Salient came to an end as a Canadian assault led German forces to withdraw to their original lines.
- 1935 – In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
- 1944 – Second World War: At the Battle of Villers-Bocage, German tank commander Michael Wittmann destroyed around 30 Allied vehicles in less than 15 minutes.
- 1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
- 1971 – The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.
- 1981 – English teenager Marcus Sarjeant fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony.
- 1983 – Pioneer 10 passed the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.
- 2007 – Insurgents carried out a second bombing at the al-Askari Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam.
- 2011 – A 6.0 Mw earthquake caused up to NZ$6 billion of additional damage to Christchurch, New Zealand, which was still recovering from an earthquake four months earlier.
- Born/died: | Charles the Bald |b|823| Mansur I |d|976| Veronica Gambara |d|1550| Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet |b|1617| Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès |d|1846| W. B. Yeats |b|1865| Karl Blossfeldt |b|1865| Dorothy L. Sayers |b|1893| Carolyn Eisele |b|1902| Augusto Roa Bastos |b|1917|Marianne Means |b|1934|Christo and Jeanne-Claude |b|1935 Rivers Cuomo |b|1970| Birger Ruud |b|1986 Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen|d|1998 |Malik Meraj Khalid |d|2003 |Mitsuharu Misawa|d|2009
Notes
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band appears on May 26, so Long and Winding Road should not appear in the same year
USS Jeannette
- 1525 – Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, beginning the practice of clerical marriage in Protestantism.
- 1881 – The Jeannette expedition to reach the North Pole from the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait came to an end when the USS Jeannette (pictured) was finally crushed and sank after having been trapped in ice for almost two years.
- 1952 – Soviet aircraft shot down a Swedish military plane carrying out signals-intelligence gathering operations, followed three days later by the shootdown of a second plane searching for the first one.
- 1969 – Preston Smith, Governor of Texas, signed a law converting a research arm of Texas Instruments into the University of Texas at Dallas.
- 2013 – Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech prime minister Petr Nečas were arrested for corruption.
- Henry Middleton (d. 1784)
- Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre (b. 1804)
- Charles Algernon Parsons (b. 1854)
- Fran Allison (d. 1989)