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
- 1249 –Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
- 1625 –King Charles I marries Henrietta Maria of France, Princess of France
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
- 1886 –A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1969 –Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.
- 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.
- 1982 –Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
- 1994 –A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
- 1997 –Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India, killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.
- 2000 –Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
- 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 –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.
- 2010 –A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
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