Notable Historical Events on July 13th
July 13th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
574 |
John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1174 |
William I of Scotland, key rebel in Revolt of 1173-1174, captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England. |
1522 |
Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht |
1558 |
Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines. |
1568 |
Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer |
1573 |
Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army |
1643 |
Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies |
1645 |
Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as Tsar of Russia |
1657 |
Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert |
1668 |
Van Marco Cesti's opera "Il Pomo d'Oro" (the Golden Apple or Tomato) premieres in Vienna |
1700 |
Russian-Turkish peace |
1772 |
Captain James Cook begins 2nd voyage aboard the Resolution to the South Seas to search for Terra Australis (Southern continent) |
1787 |
Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery) |
1787 |
Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop |
1794 |
Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria |
1832 |
Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft) |
1836 |
US patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels |
1837 |
Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace |
1851 |
John F Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton |
1854 |
US forces shell & burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua |
1854 |
In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon. |
1861 |
Battle of Corrick's Ford, VA (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53 |
1862 |
Battle of Murfreesboro, TN (Forrest's Raid) US895 CS150 |
1863 |
Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die |
1863 |
Battle of Bayou La Fourche, LA |
1863 |
Battle of Tupelo, MS (Harrisburg) [->JUL 15] US648 CS700 |
1863 |
Rebellion at Morgan's, Ohio [->JUL 26] |
1864 |
Early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley |
1865 |
Horace Greeley reputedly advises his readers to "Go west young man" |
1865 |
P T Barnum's museum burns down |
1868 |
Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana |
1870 |
King Wilhelm of Prussia sends "Emser Depeche" on Bismarck |
1876 |
29th US Postmaster General: James N Tyner of Ind takes office |
1878 |
Congress of Berlin discussing division of African colonies ends |
1878 |
Treaty of Berlin amended terms of Treaty of San Stefano |
1881 |
5th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats J Hartley (6-0 6-1 6-1) |
1882 |
200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia |
1889 |
6th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Blanche Hillyard beats Lena Rice (4-6 8-6 6-4) |
1889 |
13th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats E Renshaw (6-4 6-1 3-6 6-0) |
1896 |
Ed Delahanty, becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 4 HRs in a game |
1898 |
SF Ferry Building at foot of Market St opens |
1900 |
Phillies beat Pittsburgh 23-8 |
1911 |
Great Britain and Japan renew their alliance of 1902 for another four years; the reason Japan joins WWI on the Allies side |
1917 |
Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal |
1919 |
Race riots in Longview & Gregg counties Texas |
1919 |
Chicago White Sox pitcher Carl Mays walks off mound blaming teammates for lack of support afield |
1923 |
Draft law passes |
1923 |
The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949. |
1924 |
Albin Stenroos wins Olympic marathon (2:41:22.6) |
1925 |
French occupation force begins evacuating country |
1926 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4) |
1930 |
1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay |
1930 |
Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home" |
1934 |
Babe Ruth hits HR #700 (against Detroit) |
1935 |
Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer |
1935 |
US-Russian commerce treaty takes effect |
1936 |
112°F (44°C), Mio, Michigan (state record) |
1936 |
114°F (46°C), Wisconsin Dells, Wisc (state record) |
1938 |
Kroller-Muller museum opens in Holland |
1939 |
Frank Sinatra makes his recording debut |
1941 |
24th PGA Championship: Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills CC Denver |
1941 |
Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder |
1941 |
World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak). |
1942 |
5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis |
1942 |
German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages |
1942 |
SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland |
1943 |
11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia |
1943 |
Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany |
1944 |
Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated |
1946 |
"Tidbits of 1946" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 8 performances |
1948 |
15th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis |
1949 |
Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics |
1950 |
Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams' elbow |
1950 |
René Pleven forms French government |
1954 |
21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve |
1954 |
Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9 |
1955 |
The last execution of a woman in Britain, Ruth Ellis, takes place at Holloway Prison, London. |
1956 |
WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
13th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright |
1958 |
87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham |
1958 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
1960 |
29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York |
1960 |
KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA |
1960 |
US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate |
1962 |
500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea |
1962 |
91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
Early Wynn, wins his 300th & last game at 43 |
1963 |
Indian government announces it will cut last remaining links with South Africa by refusing landing facilities to South African aircraft |
1965 |
36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn |
1965 |
All star MVP: Juan Marichal (SF Giant) |
1966 |
Richard Speck murders 8 nurses in Chicago |
1967 |
Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die |
1968 |
97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland |
1968 |
French government-Couve de Murville forms |
1969 |
Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon |
1969 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Ladies' Supertest Golf Open |
1969 |
North Ireland loyalist Ian Paisley addresses a crowd at Loughgall, County Antrim, and is reported to have said: "I am anti-Roman Catholic, but God being my judge, I love the poor dupes who are ground down under that system." |
1970 |
Building begins of Amsterdam metro |
1970 |
The annual 'Twelfth' parades passes off without serious incident in Northern Ireland |
1971 |
42nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-4 at Tiger Stadium, Detroit |
1971 |
All star MVP: Frank Robinson (Baltimore Orioles) |
1972 |
LA Rams (Irsay) & Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners |
1972 |
A series of gun-battles and shootings erupt across Belfast between the Provisional Irish Republican Army and British Army soldiers |
1973 |
Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0 |
1973 |
Hector de Campora resigns as pres of Argentina |
1974 |
103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham |
1974 |
India's 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley) |
1975 |
8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record) |
1975 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
1976 |
47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Phila |
1976 |
All star MVP: George Foster (Cin Reds) |
1976 |
Court martial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct) |
1976 |
Last day of Test Cricket for Brian Close, aged 45 |
1977 |
NYC experiences 25 hr black-out |
1978 |
Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR |
1978 |
Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years |
1978 |
BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent" |
1978 |
Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor Pres by chairman Henry Ford II |
1978 |
Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp |
1978 |
Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida |
1979 |
Calif's Nolan Ryan & Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th |
1979 |
George Harrison releases "Faster" |
1980 |
35th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott |
1980 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1982 |
53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal |
1982 |
All star MVP: Dave Conception (Cin Reds) |
1982 |
Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed |
1982 |
Iran launches first attack into Iraq |
1983 |
The Transvaal Attorney General announces that Eugène Terre'Blanche, leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and three associates will face terrorism charges, South Africa |
1984 |
Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert |
1984 |
Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows |
1984 |
Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m |
1984 |
The last sitting of an all-white Parliament in South Africa |
1985 |
"Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief |
1985 |
NY Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) & Elston Howard (32) uniforms |
1986 |
Zola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games, a direct consequence of Britain's refusal to support economic sanctions against the apartheid government of South Africa |
1987 |
Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials |
1988 |
9th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
1988 |
Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan |
1988 |
Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert |
1991 |
Bob Milacki & 3 other Balt Oriole pitchers no-hit A's 2-0 |
1992 |
The Tripartite Alliance, consisting of the African National Congress, South African Communist Party and Congress of South African Trade Union, outlines a mass action plan for August |
1993 |
64th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore |
1993 |
All star MVP: Kirby Puckett (Minnesota Twins) |
1994 |
Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan |
1994 |
OJ Simpson (charged with murder) gives hair samples for testing |
1995 |
Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), launches |
1996 |
Cigar wins record 16th straight win, (ties Citation in 1940) |
1997 |
15th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Larry Gilbert |
1997 |
52nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Alison Nicholas |
1997 |
David Toms wins Quad City Golf Classic at 265 |
1997 |
Ford Senior Players Golf Championship |
1997 |
Indonesian ferry sinks, killing at least 77 |
1999 |
70th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Fenway Park, Boston |
2004 |
75th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Minute Maid Park, Houston |
2009 |
"She Wolf", the lead single from Shakira's eighth album, premiers |
2010 |
81st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Angel Stadium, Anaheim |
2011 |
Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130. |
2011 |
19th ESPY Awards: Dirk Nowitzki, Lindsey Vonn win |
2012 |
China's economic growth drops to 7.6%, its lowest level for three years |
2012 |
19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa |
2012 |
Financially troubled Scottish football club, Rangers, is voted into the third division |
2013 |
18 people are killed and 40 are injured after a gravel truck collides with a bus in Podolsk, Russia |
2013 |
Ten people are killed after a bus crash in Minas Gerais, Brazil |
2014 |
Germany defeats Argentina 1-0 in extra time to win the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final |
2014 |
2014 FIFA World Cup: Lionel Messi (golden ball), James Rodriguez (golden boot); Manuel Neuer (Golden gloves) win |
2016 |
Baton Rouge Police Arrest 3 in Plot to Shoot at Officers |
2016 |
Hosmer, Perez lift AL to 4-2 All-Star win, Series home field |
2016 |
Five fallen Dallas police officers honored at interfaith service |
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