History Events on June 13

Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.

#Grover_Cleveland

World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.

#World_War_II

Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.

#Vietnam_War

Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.

#Charles_Lindbergh

Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.

#Henry_Grace_à_Dieu

Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.

#Battle_of_Mount_Tumbledown

Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

#Rhode_Island

The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.

#Edict_of_Milan

Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.

#Catalina_affair

A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

#Great_Vancouver_Fire

American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.

#American_Revolutionary_War

Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.

#Pioneer_10

World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.

#World_War_I

Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

#Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

#Fahd_of_Saudi_Arabia

A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

#Timothy_McVeigh

The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

#Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty

In England, the Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, comes to a head, as rebels set fire to the Savoy Palace.

#Peasants'_Revolt

A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in Dallas, Texas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police.

#2015_attack_on_Dallas_police

At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

#Trooping_the_Colour

The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.

#USS_Jeannette_(1878)

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

#Lyndon_B._Johnson

Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.

#Province_of_Georgia

King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury.

#Charles_I_of_England

A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.

#Hayabusa

Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.

#Martin_Luther

President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

#Kim_Dae-jung

Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.

#Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition

A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.

#Anchorage,_Alaska

A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.

The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.

Italy pardons Mehmet Ali A?ca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.

First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceau?escu elections.

The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.

World War II: German combat elements, reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.

Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.