On this day in History - Jun 13

• 323BCE - Alexander the Great the Great, one of the world's greatest conquerors, died in Persia at Babylon at the age of 32.
• 0823 - Charles the Bald was born (d. 0877). Holy Roman Emperor and king of the West Franks
• 1003 - Início do pontificado do Papa João XVII
• 1231 - Morre Fernando de Bulhões (Santo Antonio de Pádua /Lisboa). Canonizado em 20 Mai 1232.
• 1625 - King Charles I is married to the French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon.
• 1645 - Início da Insurreição Pernambucana, que levará à expulsão dos holandeses do Brasil.
• 1713 - Arcangelo Corelli dies. Italian composer
• 1752 - Fanny Burney was born (d. 1840). Novelist and diarist.
• 1773 - Thomas Young was born (d. 10 May 1829). English physician and physicist who reinforced the wave theory of light with his study of interference of light.
• 1774 - Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
• 1786 - Winfield Scott was born (d. 1866). United States general.
• 1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.
• 1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
• 1831 - James Clerk Maxwell was born. Scottish physicist.
• 1844 -Yale lock - a door lock was patented by Linus Yale (U.S. No. 3,630).
• 1865 - William Butler Yeats was born (d. 1939). Irish poet and dramatist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature -1923.
• 1867 - William Sealey Gosset - was born. Chemist and statistician.
• 1870 - Jules Bordet was born (d. 1961). Physicist and microbiologist.
• 1871 - In Labrador, a hurricane kills 300 people.
• 1881 - The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• 1884 - Gerald Gardner was born (d. 1964). Witch.
• 1886 - A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• 1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria dies (b. 1845)
• 1887 - Bruno Frank was born (d. 1945). Author.
• 1888 - Fernando Pessoa was born (d. 1935). Portuguese poet. (Ver mais informações sobre o autor em português).
• 1889 - Adolphe Pegoud was born (d. 1915). Pioneer Acrobatic Pilot.
• 1892 - Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 1967). Actor (Sherlock Holmes).
• 1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers was born (d. 1957). Author.
• 1894 - Mark Van Doren was born (d.1972). American poet, writer and educator.
• 1897 - Paavo Nurmi was born (1973). Runner.
• 1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
• 1899 - Carlos Chávez was born (d. 1978). Composer.
• 1900 -The Boxer Rebellion began in China against Europeans.
• 1901 - Tage Erlander was born (d. 1985). Swedish Prime Minister.
• 1903 - Harold 'Red' Grange was born (d. 1991). American football player.
• 1906 - Bruno de Finetti was born. Mathematician, statistician.
• 1908 - Vieira da Silva was born. Portuguese painter.
• 1910 - Mary Whitehouse was born (d. 2001). British campaigner.
• 1910 - Mary Wickes was born (d. 1995). American actress.
• 1911 - Luis W. Alvarez was born (d. 1 Sep 1988). American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 for work that included the discovery of any resonance particles.
• 1913 - Great Gorge and International Railway trolley passes under garbage chute in Niagara Falls, New York when it breaks, covering the passenger-loaded car in garbage.
• 1913 - Kid Azteca was born (d. 2002). Boxer.
• 1913 - Ralph Edwards was born. Television host.
• 1915 - Don Budge was born (d. 2000). Tennis player.
• 1917 - Germany bombs London
• 1917 - Augusto Roa Bastos was born. Paraguayan writer.
• 1918 - Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (Grand Duke Michael),dies (b. 1878). Tsar Mikhail II of Russia.
• 1920 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.
• 1926 - Paul Lynde was born (d. 1982). Actor.
• 1927 - A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.
• 1931 - Kitasato Shibasaburo dies (b. 20 Dec 1852). Japanese bacteriologist who, with Alexandre Yersin, co-discovered the infectious agent of bubonic plague, Pasteurella pestis (now called Yersinia pestis), during an epidemic in Hong Kong (1894).
• 1933 - German Secret State Police (Gestapo) was established.
• 1933 - Tom King was born. British politician.
• 1934 - Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
• 1935 - É criada a FNAT - Federação Nacional para a Alegria no Trabalho, que imita a organização nazi Força pela Alegria e a fascista Doppo Lavoro.
• 1935 - Christo was born. Artist .
• 1935 - In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and became the heavyweight champion of the world.
• 1938 - Charles Édouard Guillaume dies (b. 15 Feb 1861). French physicist who studied ferronickel alloys and discovered invar (a nickel-steel alloy) which gained him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1920.
• 1940 - Paris was evacuated before the German advance on the city.
• 1941 - Esther Ofarim was born. Israeli singer
• 1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda.
• 1943 - Malcolm McDowell was born. Actor
• 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
• 1944 - Germans launch counter attack on Carentan.
• 1945 - Whitley Strieber was born. Author.
• 1946 - Major Bowes dies. Radio host
• 1948 - David Hallam was born. Member of the European Parliament, author
• 1949 - Simon Callow was born. British actor
• 1951 - Richard Thomas was born. Actor
• 1951 - Ben Chifley dies (b. 1885). Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1952 - Catalina affair, a Swedish Douglas DC-3 was shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
• 1953 - Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy
• 1953 - Tim Allen was born. American comedian and actor.
• 1953 - Gustavo Rojas Pinilla assume a presidência da Colômbia.
• 1954 - Nicolai Obukhov dies. Russian composer
• 1956 - O Real Madrid ganha a 1ª Edição da Taça dos Campeões Europeus de Futebol.
• 1958 - Vasco Santana dies in Lisbon (n. 28 Jan 1898). Great portuguese actor.
• 1962 - Ally Sheedy was born. Actress.
• 1963 - Bettina Bunge was born. Tennis player
• 1964 - Kathy Burke was born. Actress and comedian.
• 1964 - André Gago was born. Portuguese actor.
• 1965 - Martin Buber dies (b. 1878). Philosopher.
• 1965 - Princess Cristina of Spain was born. Daughter of King Charles and Queen Sophia of Spain
• 1966 - Grigori Perelman was born. Mathematician.
• 1966 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
• 1967 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 1968 - David Gray was born. British singer/songwriter
• 1970 - Rivers Cuomo was born. Singer, guitar player ("Weezer")
• 1970 - Mikael Ljungberg was born (d. 2004). Swedish wrestler.
• 1970 - "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song.
• 1971 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers.
• 1972 - Clyde McPhatter dies (b. 1932). Musician.
• 1972 - Georg von Békésy dies (b. 3 Jun 1899). American physicist and physiologist who received the 1961 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea by which sound is analyzed and communicated in the cochlea, a portion of the inner ear.
• 1973 - Sam Adams was born. American football player
• 1974 - Steve-O was born. Television personality .
• 1974 - Fifa World Cup begins in Germany.
• 1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison 3 days before.
• 1979 - Nila Håkedal was born. Norwegian beach volleyball player
• 1979 - Darla Hood dies (b. 1931). Actress.
• 1980 - Walter Rodney dies (b. 1942). Historian, political figure.
• 1981 - At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II .
• 1982 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
• 1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia dies (b. 1912) .
• 1982 - Fifa World Cup begins in Spain.
• 1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system.
• 1984 - António Variações dies. Portuguese musician.
• 1986 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were born. Twin actresses.
• 1986 - Benny Goodman dies (b. 1909). Musician.
• 1987 - Geraldine Page dies (b. 1924). Actress.
• 1989 - Fran Allison dies. Actress and television personality.
• 1991 - A spectator was killed by lightning at the U.S. Open golf tournament.
• 1992 - The Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League logged the first (and, to date, only) shutout in league history, defeating the San Antonio Force, 50-0.
• 1992 - The U.N. Earth Summit ended in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 1993 - Deke Slayton dies (b. 1924). Astronaut.
• 1993 - Hermínia Silva dies (b. 23 Oct 1913). Portuguese fado singer (A Casa da Mariquinhas) and actress.
• 1994 - The ex-wife of O.J. Simpson and a friend were found stabbed to death outside her condominium in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles.
• 1995 - French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
• 1996 - An 81-day standoff between the Freemen and FBI agents ends with their surrender in Montana.
• 1997 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• 1997 - The Chicago Bulls won their fifth National Basketball Association title in seven years when they downed the Utah Jazz, four games to two.
• 1997 - In Bangladesh a ferry on the Dhanu River northeast of Dhaka capsized in a whirlpool and at least 50 people were drowned.
• 1997 - Al Berto dies. Portuguese poet and editor.
• 1997 - In India a fire in a New Delhi theater killed 60 and injured over 200 people.
• 1998 - Lúcio Costa dies. Brazilian architect.
• 1998 - Reg Smythe dies in London. Andy Capp cartoonist.
• 1998 - Nissim Aloni dies at age 72. Playwright ["Most Cruel the King" (1953); "The Emperor’s New Clothes" (1961), "The American Princess" (1963); "The Revolution and the Chicken" (1964); "The Bride and the Butterfly Hunter" (1967); "Napoleon, Dead or Alive" (1970); and "The Gypsies of Jaffa" (1971)] .
• 1999 - Elections for the European Parlament.
• 2000 - President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, ruler of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
• 2002 - In China at least 223 were reported dead and 320,000 homeless from Xinjiang to Hubei provinces following weekend rains and flooding.
• 2003 - Heinrich Hoff dies. German boxer and athlete.
• 2003 - Czechs voted in a two-day referendum (13 and 14 June) on whether their country of 10 million should join the European Union. They voted overwhelmingly to join the European Union. 77.33% of voters approved the measure, while 22.67 voted no. Turnout was 55.21 percent.
• 2004 - A 4 kg meteorite hits the house of Phil and Brenda Archer in Ellerslie, New Zelanand , destroying the roof and a couch.
• 2004 - Dick Durrance dies (b. 1914). American skier .
• 2004 - Ralph Wiley dies (b. 1952). Writer.
• 2005 - Michael Jackson found not guilty on charges of child molestation
• 2005 - Morreu no Porto o poeta Eugénio de Andrade, pseudónimo de José Fontinhas (n. 19 Janeiro de 1923 na Póvoa de Atalaia, Fundão). Poeta que ganhou o Prémio Camões 2001. Entre os seus títulos conta-se "As Mãos e os Frutos" (1948) e "Os Amantes sem Dinheiro" (1950). O primeiro ministro português José Sócrates diz que "A Eugénio de Andrade ficam os portugueses e a nossa língua a dever momentos inesquecíveis de beleza poética, tendo a sua obra constituído uma inestimável referência estética".
• 2005 - Álvaro Cunhal dies. Portuguese active anti-fascist militant, politician who was for long time leader of the Portuguese Comunist Party and writer.
• 2005 - Jonathan Adams dies (b. 1931). English actor.
• Feast of St Anthony of Padua. Dia de Santo António.
• Roman Empire - Quinquatrus Minusculae held in honor of Minerva
• Roman Empire - seventh day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
• USA - World Children's Day
• Portugal: Municipal holyday in some cities / Feriado Municipal de Aljustrel, de Cascais, de Lisboa, de Vila Nova de Famalicão e de Vila Real. Dia de Santo António de Lisboa ou de Pádua.