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Events on the 13th of June in history

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13 Jun 0313 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.
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13 Jun 1325 Sheik Ibn Battuta begins 1st world trip, Tangiers to Mecca
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13 Jun 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.
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13 Jun 1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed
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13 Jun 1381 The Peasants' Revolt led by Wat Tyler culminated in the burning of the Savoy Palace.
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13 Jun 1392 Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France, fails
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13 Jun 1514 Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.
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13 Jun 1525 Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
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13 Jun 1547 King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish Sultan Suleiman
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13 Jun 1556 Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer (d. 1608)
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13 Jun 1611 John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
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13 Jun 1625 English King Charles I marries French Princess Henriette
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13 Jun 1625 King Charles I of England marries Henrietta Maria of France, Princess of France
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13 Jun 1633 Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore
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13 Jun 1655 Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is 1st actress in Amsterdam theater
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13 Jun 1665 Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch
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13 Jun 1721 England signs Treaty of Madrid
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13 Jun 1727 Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris
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13 Jun 1740 Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
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13 Jun 1753 Austria, England and Modena sign secret military treaty
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13 Jun 1774 Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
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13 Jun 1774 Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves
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13 Jun 1777 Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit
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13 Jun 1777 American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
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13 Jun 1777 Marquis de Lafayette lands in US
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13 Jun 1789 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
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13 Jun 1792 King Louis XVI fires French government
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13 Jun 1798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
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13 Jun 1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
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13 Jun 1825 Walter Hunt patents safety pin
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13 Jun 1837 1st Mormon missionaries to the British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
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13 Jun 1855 The opera "Les V
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13 Jun 1863 Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon, " Christchurch, New Zealand
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13 Jun 1863 Skirmish at Berryville Virginia
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13 Jun 1863 Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon," Christchurch, NZ
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13 Jun 1865 President Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states
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13 Jun 1866 House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks)
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13 Jun 1866 House passes 14th Amendment
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13 Jun 1868 Oscar J Dunn (a black) is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana
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13 Jun 1871 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
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13 Jun 1873 J C Watson discovers asteroid #132 Aethra
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13 Jun 1878 Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization
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13 Jun 1879 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #198 Ampella
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13 Jun 1881 The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
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13 Jun 1886 A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
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13 Jun 1886 King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
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13 Jun 1886 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC
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13 Jun 1888 Congress creates the Department of Labor
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13 Jun 1889 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming
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13 Jun 1890 Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named
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13 Jun 1893 Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
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13 Jun 1898 Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
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13 Jun 1898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
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13 Jun 1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
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13 Jun 1902 Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
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13 Jun 1905 New York Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
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13 Jun 1907 Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2
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13 Jun 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
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13 Jun 1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from New York to Philadelphia
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13 Jun 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.
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13 Jun 1910 William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia
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13 Jun 1912 Captain Albert Berry made the 1st parachute jump from an airplane
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13 Jun 1912 New York Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game
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13 Jun 1913 45th Belmont: Roscoe Troxler aboard Prince Eugene wins in 2:18
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13 Jun 1913 Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
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13 Jun 1914 28th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner (62 16 61)
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13 Jun 1917 Germany bombs London
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13 Jun 1917 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.
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13 Jun 1918 Phillies and Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
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13 Jun 1920 Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post
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13 Jun 1921 Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
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13 Jun 1922 Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops
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13 Jun 1924 Bene Berak Palestine founded
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13 Jun 1924 Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French Premier
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13 Jun 1924 Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
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13 Jun 1925 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8
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13 Jun 1927 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to New York City
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13 Jun 1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
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13 Jun 1930 1st Nudist Colony opens
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13 Jun 1930 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
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13 Jun 1931 63rd Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6
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13 Jun 1932 Great Britain and France sign peace treaty
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13 Jun 1933 German Secret State Police (Gestapo) established
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13 Jun 1933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)
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13 Jun 1933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
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13 Jun 1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1349 Bechuana
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13 Jun 1935 Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs vs. Somerset
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13 Jun 1935 James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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13 Jun 1935 James T Braddocks beats Max Baer for HW boxing champ
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13 Jun 1936 2nd Belgian government of Van Zealand forms
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13 Jun 1937 Stalin executes Rus officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna and Uberevitch
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13 Jun 1937 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
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13 Jun 1938 Jews injured and property destroyed in Przemyal Poland
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13 Jun 1940 Paris evacuated before the German advance
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13 Jun 1942 FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
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13 Jun 1942 Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island
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13 Jun 1942 OSS, Office of Strategic Services, form
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13 Jun 1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenem
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13 Jun 1944 German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy
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13 Jun 1944 World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
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13 Jun 1944 World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
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13 Jun 1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
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13 Jun 1945 Heerjansdam soccer team forms
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13 Jun 1945 Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
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13 Jun 1946 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California to Maryland
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13 Jun 1946 King Umberto II of Italy abdicates
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13 Jun 1947 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
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13 Jun 1948 Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th
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13 Jun 1950 South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
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13 Jun 1951 UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
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13 Jun 1952 Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
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13 Jun 1952 Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
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13 Jun 1953 53rd US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 283 at Oakmont Country Club - Oakmont, Pennsylvania
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13 Jun 1953 85th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 2:28.6
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13 Jun 1953 Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 & 7-44) vs. Australia
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13 Jun 1953 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2)
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13 Jun 1953 KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast
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13 Jun 1954 Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx
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13 Jun 1955 Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
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13 Jun 1955 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France
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13 Jun 1956 "Shangri-La" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 21 performances
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13 Jun 1956 After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control
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13 Jun 1956 Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50 / KVP 49
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13 Jun 1956 Real Madrid wins 1st Europe Cup
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13 Jun 1957 Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth, Massachusetts
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13 Jun 1957 Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season
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13 Jun 1958 Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, California
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13 Jun 1959 "Sammy Kaye Show, " last airs on ABC-TV
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13 Jun 1959 59th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot Golf Club - New York
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13 Jun 1959 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6
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13 Jun 1960 "Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59
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13 Jun 1960 Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia
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13 Jun 1961 "Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 8 performances
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13 Jun 1962 "Bob Newhart Show, " last airs on NBC-TV
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13 Jun 1962 Norway named ombudsman
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13 Jun 1963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman Cosmonaut
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13 Jun 1964 Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55)
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13 Jun 1965 19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses and Fiddler on the Roof win
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13 Jun 1965 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open
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13 Jun 1966 The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
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13 Jun 1966 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
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13 Jun 1967 "You Only Live Twice" premieres in US
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13 Jun 1967 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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13 Jun 1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
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13 Jun 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.
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13 Jun 1969 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins the Rolling Stones
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13 Jun 1969 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2111 Tselina
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13 Jun 1970 "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in the UK
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13 Jun 1970 "The Long and Winding Road" becomes The Beatles' last U.S. number one song.
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13 Jun 1970 Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
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13 Jun 1970 Beatles' "Long & Winding Road," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
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13 Jun 1971 17th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
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13 Jun 1971 New York Times began publishing "Pentagon Papers"
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13 Jun 1971 Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
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13 Jun 1971 NY Times began publishing "The Pentagon Papers"
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13 Jun 1971 Perth Observatory discovers asteroids #1806 Derice & #1978 Patrice
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13 Jun 1972 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2604
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13 Jun 1973 Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8+ years (LA Dodgers)
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13 Jun 1974 Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives
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13 Jun 1975 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2219 Mannucci
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13 Jun 1976 4th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Donna Caponi
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13 Jun 1976 Bob Marley performs in Amsterdam
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13 Jun 1976 Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04)
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13 Jun 1977 Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
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13 Jun 1977 Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
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13 Jun 1977 Convicted assassin James Earl Ray recaptured [?]
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13 Jun 1978 Israel Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
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13 Jun 1979 "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens at 22 Steps NYC for 86 performances
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13 Jun 1979 Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota
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13 Jun 1980 Deborah Harry / Meat Loaf film, "Roadie, " premieres
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13 Jun 1980 Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"
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13 Jun 1980 Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
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13 Jun 1980 Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"
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13 Jun 1980 UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
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13 Jun 1981 Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"
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13 Jun 1981 At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
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13 Jun 1981 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
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13 Jun 1981 Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
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13 Jun 1982 28th LPGA Championship won by Jan Stephenson
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13 Jun 1982 Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
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13 Jun 1982 Riccardo Paletti, was killed when he crashed on the start grid for the Canadian Grand Prix
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13 Jun 1982 Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
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13 Jun 1983 Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the farthest planet from the Sun at the time).
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13 Jun 1983 Pioneer 10 becomes 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
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13 Jun 1986 President Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
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13 Jun 1986 Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play
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13 Jun 1987 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
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13 Jun 1987 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete
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13 Jun 1988 45th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Mark Davis (Padres) / Mike Krukow
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13 Jun 1988 Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of New Jersey woman of lung cancer
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13 Jun 1988 George Harrison releases "This is Love"
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13 Jun 1988 Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win the AL East
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13 Jun 1988 George Harrison releases "This is Love"
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13 Jun 1988 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
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13 Jun 1989 43rd NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons sweeps LA Lakers in 4 games
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13 Jun 1989 Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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13 Jun 1989 Detroit sweeps Los Angeles, for the NBA championship
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13 Jun 1990 "Les Miserables, " opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary
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13 Jun 1990 Nelson andWinnie Mandela welcomed in New York City
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13 Jun 1990 Washington DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term
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13 Jun 1990 First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
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13 Jun 1990 Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya
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13 Jun 1991 A spectator is killed by lightning at US Open Golf tournament
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13 Jun 1991 The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
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13 Jun 1991 NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)
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13 Jun 1993 39th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
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13 Jun 1993 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected President of Iran
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13 Jun 1993 YokoZuna beats Hulk Hogan to become WWF champ
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13 Jun 1994 Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
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13 Jun 1994 Don Mattingly plays 1st base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most)
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13 Jun 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.
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13 Jun 1995 New Jersey Devils beat Philadelphia Flyers, to go to their 1st Stanley Cup finals
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13 Jun 1996 Freeman in Montana give up to FBI after 81 days
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13 Jun 1996 The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
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13 Jun 1997 51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2
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13 Jun 1997 Jurors in Okla City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death
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13 Jun 1997 Red Wings Vladimir Konstantinov and Slava Fetisov hurt in car crash
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13 Jun 1997 A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
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13 Jun 2000 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.
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13 Jun 2000 Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
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13 Jun 2002 The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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13 Jun 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 U.S.
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13 Jun 2005 A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
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13 Jun 2010 A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
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13 Jun 2012 A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
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