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.
- 1625 –King Charles I marries Henrietta Maria of France, Princess of France
- 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.
- 1898 –Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
- 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, and 432 injuries.
- 1944 –World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
- 1955 –Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
- 1966 –The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
- 1967 –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 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.
- 1981 –At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
- 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.
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