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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 13 June.

1. BC Alexander the great dies of fever at Babylon
2. Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed
3. John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
4. Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
5. hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
6. King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowns
7. Yukon Territory of Canada organized - Dawson chosen as capital
8. China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
9. Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
10. Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
11. Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers. 3rd forfeit win
12. Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
13. 1st sodium vapor lamps installed Schenectady NY
14. Federal Savings & Loan Association authorized
15. Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
16. Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
17. Babe Ruth's #3 is retired
18. Vostok 6 launched Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman cosmonaut
19. Miranda vs Az decision-Suspect must be informed of rights
20. Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
21. NY Times began publishing Pentagon Papers
22. Convicted assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
23. Former Supreme Court Justice Tom C Clark died in NY at 77
24. Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
25. A teen-ager fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
26. Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
27. Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
28. Benny Goodman the clarinet playing King of Swing died in NY at 77
29. Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
30. Geraldine Page dies

These famous people were born on 13 June.

1. 0823 - Charles II (the Bald), king of France (843-77), emperor (875-77)
2. 1786 - Winfield Scott, American army general, presidential candidate
3. 1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, formulated electromagnetic theory
4. 1865 - William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole) (Nobel 1923)
5. 1895 - Emile Levassor wins, 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
6. 1903 - Harold "Red" Grange, "Galloping Ghost" of football
7. 1913 - Ralph Edwards, (This is your Life)
8. 1935 - Christo, artist
9. 1951 - Richard Thomas, AKA John Boy
10. 1962 - Ally Sheedy, NY
11. 1963 - Bettina Bunge, Tennis player