About June 13
June 13, 2024 is the 165th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 201 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 230 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 13
- 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.
- 1805 –Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
- 1886 –A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1886 –King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1927 –Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
- 1944 –World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
- 1944 –World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
- 1955 –Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
- 1971 –Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
- 1982 –Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
- 1995 –French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
- 1996 –The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2005 –A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
- 2007 –The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
- 2010 –A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
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