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
• 1036 - Ali az-Zahir dies (b. 1005). Caliph
• 1231 - Anthony of Padua dies (b. 1195). Portuguese saint / Morre Fernando de Bulhões (Santo Antonio de Pádua /Lisboa). Canonizado em 20 Mai 1232.
• 1256 – Tankei dies (b. 1173). Japanese sculptor.
• 1525 - Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy doctrine decreed by the Roman Catholic Church on priests.
• 1625 - King Charles I is married to the French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon.
• 1636 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly dies (b. 1562). Scottish politician
• 1645 - Início da Insurreição Pernambucana, que levará à expulsão dos holandeses do Brasil.
• 1645 - Miyamoto Musashi dies. Japanese swordsman.
• 1649 - Adrien Baillet was born (d. 1706). French scholar and critic.
• 1665 - Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer dies (b. 1604). Dutch admiral.
• 1752 - Fanny Burney was born (d. 1840). English novelist and diarist.
• 1760 - Antoine Court dies (b. 1696). French Huguenot minister.
• 1763 - José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva was born (d. 1838). Brazilian statesman.
• 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.
• 1775 - Antoni Radziwiłł was born (d. 1833). Polish politician.
• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
• 1784 - Henry Middleton dies (b. 1717). American president of the Continental Congress
• 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 (d. 1879). Scottish physicist
• 1844 -Yale lock - a door lock was patented by Linus Yale (U.S. No. 3,630).
• 1863 - Lady Lucy Duff Gordon was born (d. 1935). English fashion designer.
• 1864 - Rudolf Kjellén was born (d. 1922). Swedish political scientist.
• 1864 - Dwight B. Waldo was born (d. 1939). American educator and historian.
• 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.
• 1876 - William Sealey Gosset was born (d. 1937). English chemist.
• 1881 - The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• 1881 - Josef Skoda dies (b. 1805). Czech physician.
• 1884 - Gerald Gardner was born (d. 1964). British occultist.
• 1884 - Etienne Gilson was born (d. 1978). French philosopher.
• 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). German 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). English actor (Sherlock Holmes).
• 1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers was born (d. 1957). English author.
• 1894 - Mark Van Doren was born (d.1972). American poet, writer and educator.
• 1894 - Dr. Leo Kanner was born (d. 1981). Austrian-American physician.
• 1897 - Paavo Nurmi was born (1973). Finnish runner.
• 1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
• 1898 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau dies (b. 1840). French Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1899 - Carlos Chávez was born (d. 1978). Mexican 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. Italian 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 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.
• 1911 - Erwin Müller was born (d. 1977). German-born physicist.
• 1912 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau was born (d. 1943). French Canadian poet.
• 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). American tennis player.
• 1917 - Germany bombs London
• 1917 - Augusto Roa Bastos was born. Paraguayan writer.
• 1918 - Ben Johnson was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 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). American actor.
• 1927 - A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.
• 1928 - John Forbes Nash was born. American mathematician, Nobel laureate
• 1929 - Alan Civil was born (d. 1989). English French horn player.
• 1931 - Shibasaburo Kitasato 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 - 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.
• 1935 - Christo was born. Bulgarian artist.
• 1935 - Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebonnt was born. French artist
• 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.
• 1940 - Bobby Freeman was born. American soul singer
• 1941 - Marcel Lachemann was born. American baseball player
• 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. English 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.
• 1944 - Ban Ki-moon was born. The current U.N. Secretary General
• 1945 - Whitley Strieber was born. American author.
• 1946 - Major Bowes dies. Radio host
• 1948 - David Hallam was born. Member of the European Parliament, author
• 1948 - Garnet Bailey was born (d. 2001). Canadian ice hockey player and executive.
• 1949 - Dennis Locorriere was born. American singer and guitarist (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show)
• 1949 - Simon Callow was born. British actor
• 1950 - Michael Stark was born. Australian actor
• 1951 - Richard Thomas was born. American actor
• 1951 - Stellan Skarsgard was born. Swedish 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.
• 1952 - Tony Bruno was born. American talkshow host
• 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
• 1955 - Mir Mine, the first diamond mine of the USSR, is discovered.
• 1955 - Alan Hansen was born. Scottish football pundit
• 1956 - Real Madrid win the inaugural European Champion Clubs' Cup final, defeating Stade de Reims 4-3 at the Parc des Princes, Paris.
• 1958 - Vasco Santana dies in Lisbon (n. 28 Jan 1898). Great portuguese actor.
• 1958 - Edwin Keppel Bennett dies (b. 1887). British writer.
• 1959 - Steve Georganas was born. Australian politician
• 1961 - Anders Järryd was born. Swedish tennis player
• 1962 - Ally Sheedy was born. American actress
• 1962 - Glenn Michibata was born. Canadian professional tennis player
• 1962 - Ally Sheedy was born. American actress.
• 1963 - Bettina Bunge was born. German tennis player
• 1963 - Paul De Lisle was born. American musician (Smash Mouth)
• 1964 - Kathy Burke was born. English actress and comedian.
• 1964 - André Gago was born. Portuguese actor.
• 1965 - Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca was born. Daughter of King Charles and Queen Sophia of Spain
• 1965 - Martin Buber dies (b. 1878). Austrian philosopher.
• 1965 - David Drummond dies (b. 1890). Australian politician.
• 1966 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
• 1966 - Grigori Perelman was born. Russian mathematician
• 1967 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1968 - David Gray was born. British singer/songwriter
• 1968 - Denise Pearson was born. British singer (Five Star)
• 1970 - "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song.
• 1970 - Chris Cairns was born. New Zealand cricketer
• 1970 - Rivers Cuomo was born. American musician (Weezer)
• 1970 - Mikael Ljungberg was born (d. 2004). Swedish wrestler.
• 1971 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers.
• 1972 - Natalie MacMaster was born. Canadian musician.
• 1972 - Clyde McPhatter dies (b. 1932). American musician.
• 1972 - Stephanie von Hohenlohe dies (b. 1891). Austrian-born German World War II spy.
• 1972 - Dündar Taşer dies (b. 1925). Turkish nationalist
• 1972 - Georg von Békésy dies (b. 3 Jun 1899). Hungarian 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
• 1973 - Ville Laihiala was born. Finnish musician (Sentenced, Poisonblack)
• 1974 - Selma Björnsdóttir was born. Icelandic singer
• 1974 - Steve-O was born. American television personality
• 1974 - Brande Roderick was born. American actress
• 1974 - Takahiro Sakurai was born. Japanese voice actor
• 1974 - Valeri Bure was born. Russian ice hockey player
• 1974 - Fifa World Cup begins in Germany.
• 1975 - Ante Covic was born. Australian footballer
• 1976 - Kym Marsh was born. English singer, actress, T.V. presenter
  1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison 3 days before.
• 1977 - Matthew Garber dies (b. 1956). British child actor (Mary Poppins) .
• 1978 - Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
• 1978 - Ethan Embry was born. American actor
• 1978 - Mathis Künzler was born. Swiss actor
• 1978 - Jason Michael Carroll was born. Country musician
• 1979 - Nila Håkedal was born. Norwegian beach volleyball player.
• 1979 - Darla Hood dies (b. 1931). American actress.
• 1980 - Darius Vassell was born. English footballer
• 1980 - Walter Rodney dies (b. 1942). Guyanese historian and political figure.
• 1981 - At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II .
• 1981 - Chris Evans was born. American actor
• 1981 - Shanna Ferrigno was born. American reality television star
• 1982 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
• 1982 - Kenenisa Bekele was born. Ethiopian athlete
• 1982 - Fifa World Cup begins in Spain.
• 1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia dies (b. 1912).
• 1982 - Peter Maivia dies (b. 1935). Samoan wrestler.
• 1982 - Riccardo Paletti dies (b. 1958). Italian Formula One driver.
• 1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system.
• 1984 - Nery Castillo was born. Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
• 1984 - António Variações dies (b. 1944). Portuguese musician.
• 1985 - Raz-B was born. American singer (B2K)
• 1985 - Danny Syvret was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 - Kat Dennings was born. American actress
• 1986 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were born. American twin actresses.
• 1986 - Benny Goodman dies (b. 1909). American musician.
• 1987 - Geraldine Page dies (b. 1924). American 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 - Gérard Côté dies (b. 1913). French Canadian runner.
• 1993 - Deke Slayton dies (b. 1924). American astronaut.
• 1993 - Hermínia Silva dies (b. 1913). Portuguese fado singer (A Casa da Mariquinhas) and actress.
• 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.
• 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 - The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
• 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 - Birger Ruud dies (b. 1911). Norwegian athlete.
• 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.
• 2000 - Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
• 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 - A jury in Santa Maria, California, acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland Ranch.
• 2005 - Eugénio de Andrade dies. Portuguese poet (b. 1923) / 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.
• 2005 - David Diamond dies (b. 1915). American composer.
• 2005 - Lane Smith dies (b. 1936). American actor.
• 2006 - Charles Haughey dies (b. 1925). Taoiseach.
• 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.