Today in History - Famous Events for Yesterday

🏰 On this day in History - Jun 13

1325 Sheik Ibn Battuta begins 1st world trip, Tangiers to Mecca

1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed in London

1392 Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France, fails

1547 King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman

1611 John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication

1625 English king Charles I marries French princess Henriette

1633 Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore

1655 Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is 1st actress in Amsterdam theater

1665 Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch

1707 Hungary declares itself independent under Ferenc R kўczi II

1721 England signs Treaty of Madrid

1727 Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris

1753 Austria, England & Modena sign secret military treaty

1774 Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves

1777 Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit

1777 Marquis de Lafayette lands in US

1789 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington

1792 King Louis XVI fires French government

1798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California

1825 Walter Hunt patents safety pin

1828 Simўn BolЎvar proclaimed dictator

1837 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio

1855 Opera "Les V€pres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris)

1863 Battle of Winchester VA

1863 Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon," Christchurch, NZ

1863 Skirmish at Berryville Virginia

1865 Pres Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states

1866 House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks)

1868 Oscar J Dunn (a black) is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana

1871 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador

1874 8th Belmont: G Barbee aboard Saxon wins in 2:39«

1878 Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization

1886 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC

1888 Congress creates Department of Labor

1889 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming

1889 23rd Belmont: W Hayward aboard Eric wins in 2:47¬

1890 Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named

1895 ђmile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)

1898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital

1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians

1902 Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland

1905 NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chic Cubs, 1-0

1907 Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2шF in Tamarack Calif

1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title

1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila

1910 William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia

1912 Capt Albert Berry made the 1st parachute jump from an airplane

1912 NY Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game

1913 45th Belmont: Roscoe Troxler aboard Prince Eugene wins in 2:18

1913 Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games

1914 28th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner (62 16 61)

1917 Germany bombs London

1918 Phillies & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings

1920 Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post

1921 Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8

1922 Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops

1924 Bene Berak Palestine founded

1924 Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier

1924 Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win

1925 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8

1927 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC

1930 1st Nudist Colony opens

1930 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece

1931 63rd Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6

1932 Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta

1932 Great Britain & France sign peace treaty

1933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)

1933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized

1933 German Secret State Police (Gestapo) established

1935 Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs v Somerset

1935 James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1936 2nd Belgian govt of Van Zealand forms

1937 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns

1937 Stalin executes Rus officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna & Uberevitch

1938 Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe v England at Trent Bridge

1938 Jews injured & property destroyed in Przemyal Poland

1940 Paris evacuates before German advance

1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, PeenemЃnde, Germany; reached 1.3 km

1942 FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head

1942 Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island

1942 OSS, Office of Strategic Services, form

1944 German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy

1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks

1945 Heerjansdam soccer team forms

1945 Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead

1946 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland

1946 King Umberto II of Italy abdicates

1947 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)

1948 Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th

1950 South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"

1951 UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea

1952 Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8

1953 53rd US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont PA

1953 85th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 2:28.6

1953 Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 & 7-44) v Australia

1953 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2)

1953 KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast

1954 Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx

1955 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France

1956 "Shangri-La" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 21 performances

1956 After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control

1956 Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49

1956 Real Madrid wins 1st Europe Cup

1957 Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth Mass

1957 Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season

1958 Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster Ca

1959 "Sammy Kaye Show," last airs on ABC-TV

1959 59th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot GC NY

1959 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6

1960 "Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59

1960 Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia

1961 "Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 8 performances

1962 "Bob Newhart Show," last airs on NBC-TV

1962 Norway named ombudsman

1963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut

1964 Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55)

1965 19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses & Fiddler on the Roof win

1965 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open

1966 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights

1967 "You Only Live Twice" premieres in US

1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice

1969 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins Rolling Stones

1970 "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK

1970 Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks

1970 Beatles' "Long & Winding Road," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

1971 17th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth

1971 NY Times began publishing "Pentagon Papers"

1973 Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8« years (LA Dodgers)

1974 Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives

1976 4th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Donna Caponi

1976 Bob Marley performs in Amsterdam

1976 Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04)

1977 Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured

1979 "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens at 22 Steps NYC for 86 perfs

1979 Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills SD

1980 Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" hits #1

1980 Deborah Harry/Meat Loaf film, "Roadie," premieres

1980 Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"

1980 Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation

1980 UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela

1981 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany

1981 Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II

1981 Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"

1982 28th LPGA Championship won by Jan Stephenson

1982 Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69

1983 Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System

1986 Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency

1986 Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play

1987 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina

1988 45th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow

1988 Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East

1988 Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer

1988 George Harrison releases "This is Love"

1988 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist

1989 43rd NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons sweeps LA Lakers in 4 games

1989 Houston's Terry Puhl plays in his 1,403rd game (most by a Canadian)

1989 Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

1990 "Les Miserables," opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary

1990 Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya

1990 Nelson & Winnie Mandela welcomed in NYC

1990 Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term,

1991 A spectator is killed by lightning at US Open Golf tournament

1991 NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)

1991 The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication

1993 "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" closes at Booth NYC after 232 perfs

1993 39th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan

1993 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran

1993 YokoZuna beats Hulk Hogan to become WWF champ

1994 Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract

1994 Don Mattingly plays 1st base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most)

1995 Indians' Dennis Martinez no-hits Balt 11-0

1995 NJ Devils beat Phila Flyers, to go to their 1st Stanley Cup finals

1996 Freeman in Montana give up to FBI after 81 days

1997 51st NBA Championship: Chic Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2

1997 Jurors in Okla City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death

1997 Red Wings Vladimir Konstantinov & Slava Fetisov hurt in car crash

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