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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 31, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,749,772,800 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 ‘hectahexacontatetragon’ day.
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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 249 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 4,557 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 13 Historical Events
- 1774 –Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
- 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.
- 1898 –Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
- 1952 –Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
- 1970 –“The Long and Winding Road” becomes the Beatles’ last Number 1 song.
- 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).
- 1997 –A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Who were born on June 13?
- 1649 –Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
- 1910 –Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
- 1911 –Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
- 1915 –Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)
- 1943 –Jim Guy Tucker, American politician, governor of Arkansas
- 1945 –Whitley Strieber, American author
- 1967 –Taşkın Aksoy, Turkish footballer
- 1973 –Sam Adams, American football player
- 1988 –Gabe Carimi, American football player
- 1989 –Tommy Searle, English motocross racer
Who died on June 13?
- 1231 –Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
- 1665 –Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
- 1784 –Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
- 1904 –Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
- 1951 –Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
- 1954 –Henry Blogg, English lifeboatman, George Cross and British Empire Medal recipient (b. 1876)
- 1965 –Martin Buber, Austrian-born Israeli philosopher (b. 1878)
- 1982 –Riccardo Paletti, Formula One driver (b. 1958)
- 1987 –Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
- 2004 –Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
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