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June 13 is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 201 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 313 ...
Events. 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.
June 13, 1943 (Sunday) [ edit ] Subhas Chandra Bose , the Indian nationalist who had recently been in Nazi Germany seeking aid for independence from the United Kingdom, arrived in Japan on an Axis submarine.
The Pope's death from stomach cancer, complicated by peritonitis, happened at 7:49 p.m. in Rome, leaving the papacy sede vacante. [ 12 ] Nazim Hikmet , 61, Turkish poet, died of a heart attack while picking up a morning newspaper at the door at his summer house in Peredelkino in the Soviet Union.
Over the night of June 15/16 the United States Army Air Force conducted the Bombing of Yawata, the first air raid on the Japanese home islands since the Doolittle Raid in April 1942. The Battle of Porytowe Wzgórze ended in a temporary victory for the Polish and Russian partisan forces.
The Armistice of 22 June 1940 was signed at 6:36 p.m. A German occupation zone was established in the north and west of France with the remainder left "free" to be governed by the French. The Germans entered La Rochelle , but not before all the seaport's naval facilities were blown up.
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
From June 12 to June 13, 2013, two derechos occurred across different areas of the Eastern United States.The initial derecho formed on the afternoon of June 12 and tracked across a large section of the Midwestern United States, the central Appalachians, and the Mid-Atlantic states before moving into the Atlantic Ocean during the morning of June 13.