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

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