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Events on the 13th of July in history

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13 Jul 0432 -BC- Origin of Metonic Cycle
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13 Jul 0574 John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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13 Jul 1174 Scottish King William captured
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13 Jul 1174 William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
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13 Jul 1249 Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
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13 Jul 1260 The Livonian Order suffers its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the Battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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13 Jul 1490 John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje (now southwestern Slovenia).
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13 Jul 1522 Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht
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13 Jul 1558 Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.
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13 Jul 1568 Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
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13 Jul 1573 Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army
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13 Jul 1573 Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
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13 Jul 1643 Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
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13 Jul 1643 English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down – In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.
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13 Jul 1645 Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as Czar of Russia
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13 Jul 1657 Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
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13 Jul 1700 Russian-Turkish peace
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13 Jul 1772 Captain James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas
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13 Jul 1787 The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
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13 Jul 1787 Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)
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13 Jul 1787 Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop
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13 Jul 1793 Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
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13 Jul 1793 French rev writer Jean Paul Marat murdered by Charlotte Corday
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13 Jul 1794 The Battle of the Vosges is fought between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria.
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13 Jul 1814 The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established.
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13 Jul 1830 The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
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13 Jul 1832 Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft)
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13 Jul 1836 US patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels
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13 Jul 1837 Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
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13 Jul 1851 John F Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton
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13 Jul 1854 In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General José María Yáñez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.
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13 Jul 1854 US forces shell & burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
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13 Jul 1863 Battle of Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana
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13 Jul 1863 New York City draft riots: In New York, New York, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
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13 Jul 1863 Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die
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13 Jul 1864 Early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley
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13 Jul 1865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man"
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13 Jul 1865 PT Barnum's museum burns down
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13 Jul 1868 Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana
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13 Jul 1876 29th Postmaster General: James N Tyner of Ind takes office
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13 Jul 1878 Congress of Berlin discusses division of African colonization ends
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13 Jul 1878 Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
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13 Jul 1878 Treaty of Berlin amended terms of Treaty of San Stefano
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13 Jul 1882 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
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13 Jul 1896 Ed Delahanty, becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 4 HRs in a game
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13 Jul 1898 San Francisco Ferry Building at foot of Market St. opens
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13 Jul 1898 Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio
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13 Jul 1900 Phillies beat Pittsburgh 23-8
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13 Jul 1905 The verdict in the six-month-long Smarthavicharam trial of Kuriyedath Thathri is pronounced, leading to the excommunication of 65 men of various castes.
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13 Jul 1908 4th modern Olympic games opens in London
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13 Jul 1917 Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of F
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13 Jul 1919 Chicago White Sox pitcher Carl Mays walks off mound blaming teammates for lack of support afield
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13 Jul 1919 The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
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13 Jul 1919 Race riots in Longview & Gregg counties Texas
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13 Jul 1923 Draft law passes
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13 Jul 1923 The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
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13 Jul 1924 Albin Stenroos wins Olympic marathon (2:41:22.6)
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13 Jul 1925 French occupation force begins evacuating country
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13 Jul 1926 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4)
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13 Jul 1930 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay
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13 Jul 1930 Sarnoff reports in New York Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
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13 Jul 1934 Babe Ruth hits HR #700 against Detroit
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13 Jul 1935 Richard Strauss resigns as Chairman of Reichskulturkammer
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13 Jul 1935 US-Russian commerce treaty takes effect
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13 Jul 1936 112
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13 Jul 1936 114
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13 Jul 1939 Frank Sinatra made his recording debut
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13 Jul 1941 24th PGA Championship: Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills Country Club - Denver
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13 Jul 1941 Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder
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13 Jul 1941 World War II: Montenegrins begin a popular uprising against the Axis powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
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13 Jul 1942 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by Nazis
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13 Jul 1942 German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
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13 Jul 1942 SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland
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13 Jul 1943 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
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13 Jul 1943 1st All Star night game (AL beats NL 5-4 at Shribe Pk, Phila)
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13 Jul 1944 Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
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13 Jul 1945 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico
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13 Jul 1946 "Tidbits of 1946" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 8 performances
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13 Jul 1948 AL beats NL 5-2 in 15th All Star Game (Sportsman Park, St Louis)
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13 Jul 1949 Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics
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13 Jul 1950 Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams elbow
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13 Jul 1953 J A Bruwer discovers asteroids #1658 Innes & #3284
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13 Jul 1954 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland
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13 Jul 1954 AL beats NL 11-9 in 21st All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium)
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13 Jul 1954 Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a
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13 Jul 1956 WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
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13 Jul 1958 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham
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13 Jul 1960 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
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13 Jul 1960 US Democratic Convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate
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13 Jul 1960 AL beats NL 6-0 in 29th All Star Game (NY Yankees host)
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13 Jul 1960 Democratic Natl convention nominates Sen John F Kennedy for president
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13 Jul 1960 KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA
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13 Jul 1961 NL beats AL 5-4 (10 innings) in 30th All Star Game (SF Candlestick)
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13 Jul 1962 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea
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13 Jul 1962 91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
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13 Jul 1962 In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.
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13 Jul 1963 Early Wynn, wins his 300th & last game at 43
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13 Jul 1965 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minnesota
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13 Jul 1965 All star MVP: Juan Marichal (SF Giant)
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13 Jul 1965 NL beats AL 6-5 in 36th All Star Game (Metropolitan Stadium, Minneapolis)
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13 Jul 1966 Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago
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13 Jul 1967 Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die
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13 Jul 1968 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland
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13 Jul 1968 French Government - Couve de Murville forms
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13 Jul 1969 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
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13 Jul 1970 Building begins of Amsterdam metro
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13 Jul 1971 42nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-4 at Tiger Stadium, Detroit
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13 Jul 1971 All star MVP: Frank Robinson (Baltimore Orioles)
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13 Jul 1971 AL beats NL 6-4 in 42nd All Star Game (Tiger Stadium, Detroit)
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13 Jul 1972 C Torres discovers asteroid #3050 Carrera
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13 Jul 1972 LA Rams (Irsay) & Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners
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13 Jul 1972 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2112 Ulyanov
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13 Jul 1973 Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the "Nixon tapes" to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
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13 Jul 1973 Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0
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13 Jul 1974 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham
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13 Jul 1975 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record)
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13 Jul 1975 Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
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13 Jul 1976 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia
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13 Jul 1976 All star MVP: George Foster (Cin Reds)
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13 Jul 1976 Court martial begins in the USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)
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13 Jul 1976 NL beats AL 7-1 in 47th All Star Game (Veteran's Stadium Phila)
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13 Jul 1977 New York City experiences 25 hour black-out
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13 Jul 1977 Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ethiopian-Somali War.
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13 Jul 1977 New York, New York, amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.
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13 Jul 1977 NYC experiences 25 hr black-out
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13 Jul 1978 BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"
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13 Jul 1978 Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motors President by Chairman Henry Ford II
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13 Jul 1978 Russian dissident Ginsburg / Piatkus / Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp
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13 Jul 1978 Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR
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13 Jul 1978 Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years
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13 Jul 1978 BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"
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13 Jul 1978 Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida
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13 Jul 1979 George Harrison releases "Faster"
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13 Jul 1979 George Harrison releases "faster"
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13 Jul 1982 53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal
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13 Jul 1982 All star MVP: Dave Conception (Cin Reds)
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13 Jul 1982 Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed
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13 Jul 1982 NL scores 4-1 victory over AL for 11th straight All-Star triumph
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13 Jul 1984 Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert
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13 Jul 1984 Sergei Bubka of the USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m
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13 Jul 1985 "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief
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13 Jul 1985 New York Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) and Elston Howard (32) uniforms
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13 Jul 1985 The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London, England, United Kingdom and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as well as other venues such as Sydney, Australia and Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
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13 Jul 1985 Vice President George Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
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13 Jul 1985 Live Aid, a rock concert in London, Phila, Moscow & Sydney
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13 Jul 1987 Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against
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13 Jul 1988 9th Emmy Sports Award presentation
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13 Jul 1988 Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan
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13 Jul 1988 Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert
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13 Jul 1991 Bob Milacki & 3 other Balt Oriole pitchers no-hit the A's 2-0
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13 Jul 1993 64th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore
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13 Jul 1993 All star MVP: Kirby Puckett (Minn Twins)
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13 Jul 1994 Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan
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13 Jul 1994 OJ Simpson (charged with murder) gives hair samples for testing
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13 Jul 1995 Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), launches
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13 Jul 1996 Cigar wins record 16th straight win, (ties Citation in 1940)
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13 Jul 1997 15th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Larry Gilbert
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13 Jul 1997 David Toms wins Quad City Golf Classic at 265
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13 Jul 1997 Ford Senior Players Golf Championship
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13 Jul 1997 Indonesian ferry sinks, killing at least 77
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13 Jul 2003 French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.
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13 Jul 2008 Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban & al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army & Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
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13 Jul 2013 George Zimmerman is found not guilty in the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
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