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.
- 1525 –Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
- 1805 –Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
- 1881 –The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
- 1886 –A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1893 –Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president’s death.
- 1898 –Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
- 1910 –The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines.
- 1934 –Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as “a silly little monkey”.
- 1967 –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 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.
- 1981 –At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1982 –Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
- 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.
- 2002 –The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 2010 –A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
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