Milestones for June 13

323 BC Iraq

Alexander III the Great, king of Macedon, dies of blood poisoning in Babylon after his expedition to India. [picture: bust of Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, by Lysippus, Museo Capitolino, Rome,]

1373 London, England

Signing of the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance, the world's oldest existing signed treaty, in London.

1825 New York City

Walter Hunt of New York patents his invention, the safety pin, to pay off a $15 debt; it took him 3 hours to make a sketch of his idea, to which he sold the rights for $400.

1893 Royal Lytham, England

World's first women's golf tournament held at the Royal Lytham course.

1900 Beijing China

Beginning of the Boxer Rebellion, with an attack on foreign diplomats and businessmen; 1899 saw the founding of the secret society, the "Fists of Righteous Harmony", dedicated to ending the domination of China by foreigners, since several European states were claiming exclusive trading rights with individual provinces, some even going so far as to lay claim to the province itself; Westerners called them "Boxers" because they practiced martial arts which Boxers believed made them impervious to Western bullets; a few days later the Chinese Empress ordered all foreigners killed, but by August an international army arrived and put the Boxer Rebellion down, and in 1901 a treaty was signed.

1912 Jefferson, Missouri

Captain Albert Berry makes the first successful parachute jump from an airplane.

1942 Peenemunde, Germany

Germans make first successful launch of their V-2 rocket; reaches altitude of 1.3 km; also on this day in 1944, the first of Germany's V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) flying buzz-bombs is unleashed on southern England.

1966 Washington DC

US Supreme Court hands down the Miranda decision 5-4; suspect held for questioning must be informed of rights, and individuals under arrest can remain silent because "...anything you say, can and will be used against you in a court of law"; Miranda vs. Arizona decision held that the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States "required warnings before valid statements could be taken by police."

1983 Space

NASA spacecraft Pioneer 10 crosses the orbit of Neptune and becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system; the space probe was launched on March 2, 1972.

1990 Berlin, Germany

East Germany begins the final demolition of the Berlin Wall, knocking out concrete slabs all over the city to re-open streets sealed off since the Cold War barrier was built in 1961.

Other Events

1325 06 13 Sheik Ibn Battuta begins first world trip, Tangiers to Mecca
1373 06 13 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed in London
1392 06 13 Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France, fails
1547 06 13 King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman
1611 06 13 John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
1625 06 13 English king Charles I marries French princess Henriette
1633 06 13 Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore
1655 06 13 Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is first actress in Amsterdam theater
1665 06 13 Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch
1707 06 13 Hungary declares itself independent under Ferenc R k¢czi II
1721 06 13 England signs Treaty of Madrid
1727 06 13 Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris
1753 06 13 Austria, England & Modena sign secret military treaty
1774 06 13 Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1777 06 13 Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit
1777 06 13 Marquis de Lafayette lands in US
1789 06 13 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
1792 06 13 King Louis XVI fires French government
1798 06 13 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
1825 06 13 Walter Hunt patents safety pin
1828 06 13 Sim¢n Bol¡var proclaimed dictator
1837 06 13 First Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
1855 06 13 Opera Les Vˆpres Sicilenne is produced (Paris)
1863 06 13 Battle of Winchester VA
1863 06 13 Samuel Butler publishes first part of Erewhon, Christchurch, NZ
1863 06 13 Skirmish at Berryville Virginia
1865 06 13 Pres Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states
1866 06 13 House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks)
1868 06 13 Oscar J Dunn (a black) is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana
1871 06 13 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
1874 06 13 8th Belmont: G Barbee aboard Saxon wins in 2:39«
1878 06 13 Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization
1886 06 13 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC
1888 06 13 Congress creates Department of Labor
1889 06 13 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming
1889 06 13 23rd Belmont: W Hayward aboard Eric wins in 2:47¬
1890 06 13 Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named
1895 06 13 mile Levassor wins first Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
1898 06 13 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
1900 06 13 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
1902 06 13 Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
1905 06 13 NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chic Cubs, 1-0
1907 06 13 Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2øF in Tamarack Calif
1908 06 13 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1910 06 13 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes first 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila
1910 06 13 William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia
1912 06 13 Capt Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from an airplane
1912 06 13 NY Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game
1913 06 13 45th Belmont: Roscoe Troxler aboard Prince Eugene wins in 2:18
1913 06 13 Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
1914 06 13 28th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner (62 16 61)
1917 06 13 Germany bombs London
1918 06 13 Phillies & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
1920 06 13 Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post
1921 06 13 Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
1922 06 13 Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops
1924 06 13 Bene Berak Palestine founded
1924 06 13 Gaston Doumergue elected as first protestant French premier
1924 06 13 Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
1925 06 13 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8
1927 06 13 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1930 06 13 First Nudist Colony opens
1930 06 13 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
1931 06 13 63rd Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6
1932 06 13 Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta
1932 06 13 Great Britain & France sign peace treaty
1933 06 13 First sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)
1933 06 13 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
1933 06 13 German Secret State Police (Gestapo) established
1935 06 13 Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs v Somerset
1935 06 13 James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 06 13 2nd Belgian govt of Van Zealand forms
1937 06 13 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
1937 06 13 Stalin executes Rus officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna & Uberevitch
1938 06 13 Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe v England at Trent Bridge
1938 06 13 Jews injured & property destroyed in Przemyal Poland
1940 06 13 Paris evacuates before German advance
1942 06 13 First V-2 rocket launch, Peenemnde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1942 06 13 FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
1942 06 13 Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island
1942 06 13 OSS, Office of Strategic Services, form
1944 06 13 German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy
1944 06 13 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
1945 06 13 Heerjansdam soccer team forms
1945 06 13 Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
1946 06 13 First transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland
1946 06 13 King Umberto II of Italy abdicates
1947 06 13 First night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
1948 06 13 Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th
1950 06 13 South African parliament accept Groups Area Act
1951 06 13 UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
1952 06 13 Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
1953 06 13 53rd US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont PA
1953 06 13 85th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 2:28.6
1953 06 13 Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 & 7-44) v Australia
1953 06 13 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2)
1953 06 13 KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) first broadcast
1954 06 13 Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx
1955 06 13 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France
1956 06 13 Shangri-La opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 21 performances
1956 06 13 After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control
1956 06 13 Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49
1956 06 13 Real Madrid wins first Europe Cup
1957 06 13 Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth Mass
1957 06 13 Ted Williams becomes first ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season
1958 06 13 Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster Ca
1959 06 13 Sammy Kaye Show, last airs on ABC-TV
1959 06 13 59th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot GC NY
1959 06 13 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6
1960 06 13 Alley-Oop by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59
1960 06 13 Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia
1961 06 13 Billy Barnes People opens at Royale Theater NYC for 8 performances
1962 06 13 Bob Newhart Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1962 06 13 Norway named ombudsman
1963 06 13 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is first woman cosmonaut
1964 06 13 Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55)
1965 06 13 19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses & Fiddler on the Roof win
1965 06 13 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1966 06 13 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
1967 06 13 You Only Live Twice premieres in US
1967 06 13 Thurgood Marshall nominated as first black Supreme Court justice
1969 06 13 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins Rolling Stones
1970 06 13 In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK
1970 06 13 Beatles' Let It Be, album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1970 06 13 Beatles' Long & Winding Road, single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1971 06 13 17th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1971 06 13 NY Times began publishing Pentagon Papers
1973 06 13 Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for first time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8« years (LA Dodgers)
1974 06 13 Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives
1976 06 13 4th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Donna Caponi
1976 06 13 Bob Marley performs in Amsterdam
1976 06 13 Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04)
1977 06 13 Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
1979 06 13 Madwoman of Central Park West opens at 22 Steps NYC for 86 perfs
1979 06 13 Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills SD
1980 06 13 Billy Joel's Glass Houses hits #1
1980 06 13 Deborah Harry/Meat Loaf film, Roadie, premieres
1980 06 13 Paul McCartney releases Waterfall
1980 06 13 Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in Abscam investigation
1980 06 13 UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1981 06 13 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
1981 06 13 Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
1981 06 13 Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on Tomorrow
1982 06 13 28th LPGA Championship won by Jan Stephenson
1982 06 13 Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
1983 06 13 Pioneer 10 is first man-made object to leave Solar System
1986 06 13 Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
1986 06 13 Steve Garvey first ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play
1987 06 13 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
1988 06 13 45th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow
1988 06 13 Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East
1988 06 13 Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer
1988 06 13 George Harrison releases This is Love
1988 06 13 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
1989 06 13 43rd NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons sweeps LA Lakers in 4 games
1989 06 13 Houston's Terry Puhl plays in his 1,403rd game (most by a Canadian)
1989 06 13 Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1990 06 13 Les Miserables, opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary
1990 06 13 Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya
1990 06 13 Nelson & Winnie Mandela welcomed in NYC
1990 06 13 Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term,
1991 06 13 A spectator is killed by lightning at US Open Golf tournament
1991 06 13 NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)
1991 06 13 The National, first all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
1993 06 13 Someone Who'll Watch Over Me closes at Booth NYC after 232 perfs
1993 06 13 39th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1993 06 13 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran
1993 06 13 YokoZuna beats Hulk Hogan to become WWF champ
1994 06 13 Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
1994 06 13 Don Mattingly plays first base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most)
1995 06 13 Indians' Dennis Martinez no-hits Balt 11-0
1995 06 13 NJ Devils beat Phila Flyers, to go to their first Stanley Cup finals
1996 06 13 Freeman in Montana give up to FBI after 81 days
1997 06 13 51st NBA Championship: Chic Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2
1997 06 13 Jurors in Okla City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death
1997 06 13 Red Wings Vladimir Konstantinov & Slava Fetisov hurt in car crash

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