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This day in history: 13 June

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426 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 13 June.
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2025: Israel initiates air strikes against Iran, initiating the Twelve Day War.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church

Christian feast day: Aquilina

Christian feast day: Blessed Marianna Biernacka

Christian feast day: Blessed Thomas Woodhouse

Christian feast day: Cetteus (Peregrinus)

Christian feast day: Eulogius of Alexandria

Christian feast day: Felicula

Christian feast day: Gerard of Clairvaux

Christian feast day: G. K. Chesterton (Episcopal Church (USA))

Christian feast day: June 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Psalmodius

Christian feast day: Ragnebert (Rambert)

Events

2025Israel initiates air strikes against Iran, initiating the Twelve Day War.

2023At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria.

2023Three people are killed and another three injured in an early morning stabbing and van ramming attack in Nottingham, England.

2021A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China, kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.

2018Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal.

2012A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.

2010A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback.

2007The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.

2005The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of all charges for allegedly sexually abusing a child in 2003.

2002The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

2000Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

2000President 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.

1999BMW win 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans.

1997A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

1997The Uphaar Cinema Fire takes place at Green Park, Delhi, resulting in the deaths of 59 people and seriously injuring 103 others.

1996Garuda Indonesia flight 865 crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, killing three people and injuring 170.

1996The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.

1994A 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.

1990First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.

1983Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.

1982Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.

1982Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

1981At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

1977Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

1973In a game versus the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium, Los Angeles Dodgers teammates Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Bill Russell play together as an infield for the first time, going on to set the Major League Baseball reco

1971Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.

1967U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1966The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their Fifth Amendment rights before questioning them (colloquially known as "Mirandizing").

1956Spanish football club Real Madrid CF wins the inaugural European Cup, UEFA's premier club competition, by winning 4–3 against French club Stade de Reims in the final.

1952Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.

1944World War II: German combat elements, reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.

1944World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.

1944World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.

1927Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade up 5th Avenue in New York City.

1917World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.

1907The Workers' Federation of Chile declares a general strike in solidarity with a rail workers' strike.

1898Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.

1895Émile Levassor wins the world's first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about fifteen miles per hour (24 km/h).

1893Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's

1886A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Born on this day

2006Macklin Celebrini, Canadian ice hockey player

2006Pablo García, Spanish footballer

2001Bowen Byram, Canadian ice hockey player

2001Sung Han-bin, South Korean singer

2000Penny Oleksiak, Canadian swimmer

1995Emily Fanning, New Zealand tennis player

1995Laura Ucrós, Colombian tennis player

1994Atsuhiro Inukai, Japanese actor

1994Deepika Kumari, Indian archer

1993Cansin Köktürk, German politician

1993Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (died 2018)

1993Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (died 2011)

1992Semi Radradra, Fijian rugby league player

1991Kang Si-ra, South Korean singer

1991Ryan Mason, English footballer

1991Will Claye, American jumper

1990Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor

1990James McCann, American baseball player

1990Nicole Riner, Swiss tennis player

1989Andreas Samaris, Greek footballer

1989Ben Barba, Australian rugby league player

1989Daniel Mortimer, Australian rugby league player

1989Erica Wiebe, Canadian wrestler

1989Hassan Whiteside, American basketball player

1989James Calado, English racing driver

1989Ryan McDonagh, American ice hockey player

1989Tommy Searle, English motocross racer

1988Cody Walker, American actor

1988Gabe Carimi, American football player

1988Kerttu Niskanen, Finnish cross-country skier

1988Reece Noi, British actor

1987Marko Grgić, Croatian footballer

1986Ashley Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer and businesswoman

1986DJ Snake, French DJ and record producer

1986Jonathan Lucroy, American baseball catcher

1986Kat Dennings, American actress and comedian

1986Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer

1986Lea Verou, Greek computer scientist and author

1986Måns Zelmerlöw, Swedish singer

1986Mary-Kate Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer and businesswoman

Died on this day

2026Roger Cook, New Zealand-born British investigative journalist (born 1943)

2024Angela Bofill, American R&B singer (born 1954)

2024Benji Gregory, American child actor (born 1978)

2023Cormac McCarthy, American author (born 1933)

2021Ned Beatty, American actor (born 1937)

2015Buddy Boudreaux, American saxophonist and clarinet player (born 1917)

2015Mike Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer and coach (born 1940)

2015Sergio Renán, Argentinian actor, director and screenwriter (born 1933)

2014Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (born 1932)

2014Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1926)

2014Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)

2014Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (born 1933)

2014Robert Peters, American poet, playwright and critic (born 1924)

2013Albert White Hat, American educator and activist (born 1938)

2013David Deutsch, American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (born 1929)

2013Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (born 1930)

2012Graeme Bell, Australian pianist, composer and bandleader (born 1914)

2012Jože Humer, Slovenian composer and translator (born 1934)

2012Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer for Lollywood (born 1927)

2012Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (born 1913)

2012Sam Beddingfield, American pilot and engineer (born 1933)

2010Jimmy Dean, American singer and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (born 1928)

2009Fathi Yakan, Lebanese scholar and politician (born 1933)

2009Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (born 1962)

2008Tim Russert, American journalist and lawyer (born 1950)

2007Walid Eido, Lebanese judge and politician (born 1942)

2006Charles Haughey, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (born 1925)

2005Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese academic and politician (born 1913)

2005David Diamond, American pianist and composer (born 1915)

2004Ralph Wiley, American journalist and author (born 1952)

Quote of the day

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

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