What are the important events that happened on June 13? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 13: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 13 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 31, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,718,236,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexacontapentagon’ day.
Gemini is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,192 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 13 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1774 –Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1978 –Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on June 13?
- 1822 –Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884)
- 1870 –Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
- 1920 –Rolf Huisgen, German chemist
- 1935 –Christo, Bulgarian artist
- 1950 –Belinda Bauer, Australian actress
- 1963 –Bettina Bunge, German tennis player
- 1973 –Ville Laihiala, Finnish musician (Sentenced, Poisonblack)
- 1975 –Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer
- 1978 –Ethan Embry, American actor
- 1978 –Mathis Künzler, Swiss actor
Who died on June 13?
- 1036 –Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005)
- 1760 –Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. 1696)
- 1918 –Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II (b. 1878) (murdered)
- 1930 –Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
- 1972 –Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. 1891)
- 1977 –Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins) (b. 1956)
- 1982 –Riccardo Paletti, Formula One driver (b. 1958)
- 1989 –Fran Allison, American, early television personality (Kukla, Fran and Ollie) (b. 1907)
- 2004 –Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
- 2005 –David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
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