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 164^th 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, 29,162,880 minutes 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.

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.

June 13 Historical Events

• 1249 –
  Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
• 1881 –
  The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• 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.
• 1944 –
  World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
• 1970 –
  “The Long and Winding Road” becomes the Beatles’ last Number 1 song.
• 1977 –
  Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
• 1995 –
  French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
• 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.
• 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?

• 1884 –
  Anton Drexler, German political figure (d. 1942)
• 1927 –
  Slim Dusty, Australian Singer (d. 2003)
• 1929 –
  Robert W. Scott, American politician, governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)
• 1931 –
  Nora Kovach, Hungarian-born American ballerina (d. 2009)
• 1948 –
  Joe Roth, American executive, producer and film director
• 1959 –
  Steve Georganas, Australian politician
• 1967 –
  Taşkın Aksoy, Turkish footballer
• 1972 –
  Natalie MacMaster, Canadian musician
• 1983 –
  Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player
• 1986 –
  Kat Dennings, American actress

Who died on June 13?

• 1918 –
  Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II (b. 1878) (murdered)
• 1943 –
  Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
• 1965 –
  Martin Buber, Austrian-born Israeli philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1979 –
  Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)
• 1984 –
  António Variações, Portuguese hairdresser and musician (b. 1944)
• 2002 –
  John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
• 2003 –
  Malik Meraj Khalid, Former caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
• 2004 –
  Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
• 2005 –
  Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2008 –
  Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)