UN
Day
International
Albinism Awareness Day
Events
of the day
313 β The Edict of Milan,
signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor
Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom
throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in
Nicomedia.
1249 β Coronation of Alexander III as King
of Scots.
1373 β Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England
(succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal
is the oldest alliance in the world which
is still in force.
1525 β Martin Luther marries Katharina von
Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by
the Roman Catholic Church for priests and
nuns.
1625 β King Charles I marries Henrietta Maria
of France, Princess of France
1774 β Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's
North American colonies to ban the importation
of slaves.
1777 β American Revolutionary War: Marquis
de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South
Carolina, in order to help the Continental
Congress to train its army.
1805 β Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting
ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis
and four companions sight the Great Falls
of the Missouri River.
1881 β The USS Jeannette is crushed in an
Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1886 β A fire devastates much of Vancouver,
British Columbia.
1886 β King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found
dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at
11:30 PM.
1893 β 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.
1898 β Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson
chosen as its capital.
1910 β 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 β 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.
1927 β Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives
a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New
York City.
1934 β Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet
in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes
the German dictator as "a silly little
monkey".
1944 β World War II: German combat elements
- reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier
Division - launch a counterattack on American
forces near Carentan.
1944 β World War II: Germany launches a V1
Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of
the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
1952 β Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas
DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
1955 β Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in
the USSR, is discovered.
1966 β The United States Supreme Court rules
in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must
inform suspects of their rights before questioning
them.
1967 β U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates
Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become
the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme
Court.
1969 β 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 β "The Long and Winding Road"
becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song.
1971 β Vietnam War: The New York Times begins
publication of the Pentagon Papers.
1977 β Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin
James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping
from prison three days before.
1978 β Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from
Lebanon.
1981 β At the Trooping the Colour ceremony
in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires
six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
1982 β Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon
the death of his brother, Khalid.
1983 β 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).
1994 β 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.
1996 β The Montana Freemen surrender after
an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
1997 β A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to
death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City
bombing.
1997 β Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India,
killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.
2000 β 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.
2000 β Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the
Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John
Paul II in 1981.
2002 β The United States withdraws from the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2002 β 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 β A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits
pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old
Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
2007 β The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for
a second time.
2010 β A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft
Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid
25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church
Blessed Thomas Woodhouse
Cetteus
Pope Leo III
June 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Quinquatrus Minusculae, in honor of Minerva.
(Roman Empire)
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