13th June anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1584
  • Japan
  • "Birth of Miyamoto Musashi, Samurai." more
  • 1752
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Fanny Burney, English writer." more
  • 1865
  • Ireland
  • "Birth of W B Yeats, Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner." more
  • 1893
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Dorothy L Sayers, English writer. Creator of the detective and incunabula collector Lord Peter Wimsey." more
  • 1927
  • Australia
  • "Birth of Slim Dusty, Australian folk singer whose recording of ""A Pub with no Beer"" was a global success." more
• event
  • 1373
  • Great Britain
  • "Start of the Anglo Portuguese Alliance, later ratified as the Treaty of Windsor, which is the oldest alliance between two countries which is still in force." more
  • 1665
  • Great Britain
  • Duke of York defeated the Dutch fleet outside Lowestoft more
  • 1805
  • United States
  • Merewether Lewis and four companions first sighted the Great Falls of the Missouri River. more
  • 1884
  • United States
  • "The first modern roller coaster in the USA began operating at Coney Island, New York" more
  • 1944
  • Great Britain
  • First V1 Rocket hits London more
  • 1983
  • United States
  • US space probe Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system. more
• Death
  • 1886
  • Germany
  • "Death of Ludwig II of Bavaria, drowned with his doctor in the lake at Castle Berg where he was being detained as insane." more
  • 1986
  • United States
  • "Death of Benny Goodman, American jazz musician." more
  • 1998
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Reg Smythe, creator of the Andy Capp cartoon strip." more