Historical Events on this Day in History Events in History for Friday 13th June 2014 Events 1 - 190 of 190 1325 - Sheik Ibn Battuta begins 1st world trip, Tangiers to Mecca 1373 - Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (worlds 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 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 Rákóczi 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 1828 - Simon Bolívar proclaimed dictator 1837 - 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio Military and Political Leader Simon BolivarMilitary and Political Leader Simon Bolivar 1855 - Opera Les Vêpres 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 - US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights) 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 2:39.5 1878 - Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization 1881 - The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack. 1886 - Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC 1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM at 40. Builder of palace of Neuschwanstein and patron of Wagner 1888 - US Congress creates Department of Labor 1889 - 2 of snow accumulates in Rawlins, Wyoming 1889 - 23rd Belmont: W Hayward aboard Eric wins in 2:47.25 1890 - Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named 1895 - Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph) 1898 - Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital 1900 - In China, Baron von Kettler, the German minister to China, beats two young Boxers with his walking stick; when word of this circulates, rioting and arson spread throughout Peking during the night. 1902 - Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland 1905 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0 1907 - Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2°F 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 South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia 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 (6-2 1-6 6-1) 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. 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 Aviator Charles LindberghAviator Charles Lindbergh 1927 - Ticker-tape parade welcomes 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 forces 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 - Geheime Staats Polizei) 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 government of Van Zealand forms 1937 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns 1937 - Stalin executes Russian officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna & Uberevitch 1938 - Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe v England at Trent Bridge Soviet Union Premier Joseph StalinSoviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin 1938 - Jews injured & property destroyed in Przemyal, Poland 1940 - Paris evacuates before German advance 1942 - 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, 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 - US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) formed 1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information. 1944 - German counter attack on Villers-Bocage, Normandy 1944 - Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) flying bomb (doodle-bugs) 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 Ruths final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th Baseball Great Babe RuthBaseball Great Babe Ruth 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 Baseball Player Ted WilliamsBaseball Player Ted Williams 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 Courts Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights Golfer Ben HoganGolfer Ben Hogan 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 8½ 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 1978 - Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon. Reggae Musician Bob MarleyReggae Musician Bob Marley 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 Joels 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 Atlantas triple-play US President & Actor Ronald ReaganUS President & Actor Ronald Reagan 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 arent racist 1989 - 43rd NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons sweeps LA Lakers in 4 games 1989 - Houstons 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) Country Singer Jerry Lee LewisCountry Singer Jerry Lee Lewis 1991 - The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication 1993 - Someone Wholl 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) 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. 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 1996 - The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents. 1997 - 51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2 1997 - Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death 1997 - Red Wings Vladimir Konstantinov & Slava Fetisov hurt in car crash WWF Wrestler Hulk HoganWWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan 1997 - American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16 years on the run, though he would not return for another four years. 2000 - Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. 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. 2001 - 35th TNN & CMT Country Weekly Music Awards: George Strait, Faith Hill & Alan Jackson wins 2002 - The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. 2004 - 50th LPGA Championship won by Annika Sörenstam 2005 - A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch. 2007 - The Al Askari Mosque is bombed again. 2010 - 64th Tony Awards: Memphis & Red win 2011 - Christchurch, New Zealand is hit by another strong earthquake measuring magnitude 6.3 2012 - A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people 2012 - San Francisco Giants Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchises history against the Houston Astros
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