About June 13
June 13, 2025 is the 164th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 201 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 249 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 13
- 1249 –Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
- 1373 –Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.
- 1774 –Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
- 1898 –Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
- 1927 –Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
- 1934 –Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as “a silly little monkey”.
- 1944 –World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
- 1952 –Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
- 1966 –The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
- 1970 –“The Long and Winding Road” becomes the Beatles’ last Number 1 song.
- 1971 –Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
- 1977 –Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
- 1978 –Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
- 1983 –Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time).
- 1995 –French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
- 1997 –A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
- 2000 –President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
- 2002 –Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the US.
- 2007 –The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
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