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40ADJun 13Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general and governor of Britain, was born. He conquered Wales and Northern England.
1415Jun 13Henry the Navigator, the prince of Portugal, embarked on an expedition to Africa. This marked the beginning of Portuguese dominance of West Africa.
1752Jun 13Fanny Burney, English writer, was born.
1774Jun 13Rhode Island became the 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves.
1777Jun 13Marquis de Lafayette landed in the United States to assist the colonies in their war against England.
1786Jun 13Winfield Scott, U.S. Army general famous for his victories in the War of 1812 and the War with Mexico, was born.
1798Jun 13Mission San Luis Rey [in California] was founded.
1828Jun 13Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) was proclaimed dictator (Colombia).
1855Jun 13Verdi’s opera “Les Vepres Sicilenne” was produced (Paris).
1863Jun 13Confederate forces on their way to Gettysburg clashed with Union troops at the Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia.
1888Jun 13The US Congress created the Department of Labor.
1892Jun 13Basil Rathbone, actor (Sherlock Holmes), was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
1893Jun 13Dorothy Leigh Sayers (d.1957), English detective writer, creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, was born. “The worst sin — perhaps the only sin — passion can commit, is to be joyless.”
1898Jun 13The Yukon Territory of Canada was organized.
1900Jun 13China’s Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted into violence.
1903Jun 13Harold “Red” Grange, football’s Galloping Ghost, was born. He became an All-American football running back for the University of Illinois and went on to a professional career in Chicago and New York.
1908Jun 13Swimmer F. Riehl demonstrated a kite attached to himself before the crew of the battleship Connecticut in the SF Bay. It carried him through the water for more than half a mile.
1911Jun 13Luis W. Alvarez (d.1988), physicist (Nobel-1968), was born in SF, Ca.
1913Jun 13Ralph Edwards (d.2005), radio and TV host (This is Your Life), was born in Merino, Colo.
1917Jun 13Germany bombed London.
1920Jun 13The U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children may not be sent by parcel post.
1923Jun 13The French set a trade barrier between the occupied Ruhr and the rest of Germany.
1927Jun 13Charles Lindbergh received the Flying Cross and was treated to a ticker tape parade in New York City to celebrate his successful crossing of the Atlantic.
1937Jun 13Stalin executed Russian officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna & Uberevitch.
1940Jun 13Paris was evacuated before the German advance on the city.
1942Jun 131st V-2 rocket launch from Peenemunde, Germany, reached 1.3 km.
1943Jun 13German spies landed on Long Island, New York, and were soon captured.
1951Jun 13U.N. troops seized Pyongyang, North Korea.
1953Jun 13Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1900-1975) began serving president of Colombia and continued to 1957.
1956Jun 13The 74-year British occupation of the Suez Canal ended. The last British troops left the Canal base.
   
1957Jun 13The Mayflower 2, a replica of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620, arrived at Plymouth, Mass., after a nearly two-month journey from England.
1967Jun 13President Johnson nominated Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1976Jun 13Don Bolles, Arizona Republic investigative reporter, died as a result of injuries suffered when a bomb blew up his car 11 days earlier. He had been working on an alleged Mafia story at the time of his death.
1977Jun 13James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, was recaptured following his escape three days earlier from a Tennessee prison.
1978Jun 13Israelis withdrew the last of their invading forces from Lebanon.
1979Jun 13Sioux Indians were awarded $105 million in compensation for the U.S. seizure in 1877 of their Black Hills in South Dakota.
1981Jun 13Tom Snyder interviewed Charles Manson on “Tomorrow.”
1982Jun 13King Khalid of Saudi Arabia died at the age of 69; he was succeeded by a half brother, Crown Prince Fahd.
1983Jun 13The US space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune.
1986Jun 13Benny Goodman (77), the clarinet-playing “King of Swing,” died in NYC.
1987Jun 13The last regularly scheduled episode of “A Prairie Home Companion,” starring humorist Garrison Keillor, was broadcast from the old World Theater in St. Paul, Minn.
1989Jun 13The Detroit Pistons won their first National Basketball Association title, sweeping the Los Angeles Lakers in four games.
1990Jun 13East German border guards and demolition experts from the Bundeswehr started the official demolition of the Berlin Wall.
1991Jun 13Revising a policy with roots to the McCarthy era, the Bush administration agreed to remove almost all 250,000 names on a secret list of unacceptable aliens.
1992Jun 13Democrat Bill Clinton stirred controversy during an appearance before the Rainbow Coalition by criticizing rap singer Sister Souljah for making remarks that he said were “filled with hatred” toward whites.
1993Jun 13Vijay Singh of Fiji Island won the Buick Classic Tournament at the Westchester Country Club in Harrison, New York.
1994Jun 13O.J. Simpson was questioned for several hours by Los Angeles police following the slashing deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole, and Ronald Goldman.
1995Jun 13President Clinton proposed a ten-year plan for balancing the federal budget, saying in a televised address his proposal would cut spending by $1.1 trillion.
1997Jun 13The Chicago Bulls captured their fifth professional basketball championship in seven years with a 90-86 victory over the Utah Jazz in Game 6 of the NBA finals.
1998Jun 13It was reported that in Madagascar a grasshopper swarm, 7 miles long, had spread into the capital city of Antananarivo.
1999Jun 13In Britain the Conservative Party under William Hague won 36 seats while the Labor Party won 29 for the European Parliament.
2000Jun 13The MacArthur Foundation awarded “genius grants” to 25 people.
2001Jun 13Pres. Bush  met behind closed doors with NATO leaders in Brussels, Belgium, and pitched his missile shield plan with mixed response.
2002Jun 13The Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup 4 games to 1 over the Carolina Hurricanes.
2004Jun 13It was reported that a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon a day helped to reduce glucose, fat and cholesterol levels by a s much as 30%.
2005Jun 13The US Senate apologized for blocking anti-lynching legislation in the early 20th century, when mob violence against blacks was commonplace.
2006Jun 13US Congressional investigators said fake aid to Katrina victims may have cost taxpayers up to $1.4 billion. A FEMA official found the claims hard to credit.
   
2007Jun 13Heavy snows hit the Andean border region of Argentina and Chile, forcing the closure of a key mountain highway connecting the two countries and idling thousands of trucks.
2008Jun 13In Iowa the Cedar River crested at nearly 32 feet, 12 feet higher than the old record set in 1929. Water submerged more than 400 blocks of Cedar Rapids, threatened the city’s drinking supply and forced the evacuation of a downtown hospital.
   
2009Jun 13Six Flags, an American theme park operator, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2010Jun 13Spirit Airlines announced that it has canceled all flights through Jun 15 as a pilot’s strike continued into a 2nd day.
2011Jun 13The US Dept. of Justice said Hecla Mining Co. will pay $263 million to settle one of the nation’s largest Superfund lawsuits for releasing mining waste into the environment in Idaho.
2012Jun 13The US Justice Dept. dismissed all remaining charges against former North Carolina Senator John Edwards.
2013Jun 13The US announced increased military aid to Syria and said it had conclusive evidence that Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale against opposition forces. The White House said multiple chemical attacks last year killed up to 150 people.
Source: Timelines of History

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