Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1373 - England and Portugal sign a treaty of alliance which has never been broken 1774 - Rhode Island is the first colony to outlaw the importation of slaves 1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded 1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital 1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England 1966 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them 1967 - Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court 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 1973 - Vietnam War - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho sign a peace agreement 1982 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia 1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system Births 823 - Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and king of the West Franks (+ 877) 1786 - Winfield Scott, United States general (+ 1866) 1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (+ 1896) 1865 - William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1923 (+ 1939) 1870 - Jules Bordet, physicist and microbiologist (+ 1961) 1887 - Bruno Frank, author (+ 1945) 1892 - Basil Rathbone, actor (+ 1967) 1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers, author (+ 1957) 1897 - Paavo Nurmi, runner (+ 1973) 1903 - Harold 'Red' Grange, American football player (+ 1991) 1913 - Kid Azteca, boxer (+ 2002) 1913 - Ralph Edwards, television host 1915 - Don Budge, tennis player (+ 2000) 1926 - Paul Lynde, actor (+ 1982) 1933 - Tom King, British politician 1935 - Christo, artist 1943 - Malcolm McDowell, actor 1948 - Garnet Bailey, ice hockey player & scout (+ 2001) 1951 - Richard Thomas, actor 1951 - Stellan Skarsgård, actor 1953 - Tim Allen, actor 1962 - Ally Sheedy, actress 1970 - Rivers Cuomo, singer, guitar player (Weezer) 1974 - Steve-O, television personality 1986 - The Olsen twins, actresses Deaths 1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria 1918 - Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (AKA Grand Duke Michael), Tsar Mikhail II of Russia 1946 - Major Bowes, radio host 1972 - Clyde McPhatter, musician 1979 - Darla Hood, actress 1980 - Walter Rodney, historian, political figure 1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia 1986 - Benny Goodman, musician 1987 - Geraldine Page, actress 1989 - Fran Allison, actress, television personality 1998 - Reg Smythe, Andy Capp cartoonist 2003 - Hein ten Hoff, German boxing athlete Holidays and observances Feast of St Anthony of Padua Roman Empire - Quinquatrus Minusculae held in honor of Minerva Roman Empire - seventh day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta See Also: June 12 - June 14 - May 13 - July 13 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.