Today in History ~ June 13
Kitchen Klutz's of America Day
Events
1373 - Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed
1381 - During the Peasant's Revolt, a large mob of English peasants led by Wat Tyler marched into London and began burning and looting the city. Several government buildings were destroyed, prisoners were released, and a judge was beheaded along with several dozen other leading citizens. [H]
1611 - John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
1774 - Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1777 - The Marquis de Lafayette landed in the United States.
1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
1805 - Meriwether Lewis and
four men arrive at the Great Falls of the Missouri River. [H]
1825 - Walter Hunt patents safety pin
1828 - Simon Bolivar proclaimed dictator
1855 - Verdi's opera "Les Vepres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris)
1862 - Federals, after a brief skirmish, occupy Romney, Virginia (now West Virginia)
1863 - Battle of Winchester VA
1871 - Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg.
1888 - Congress created the Department of Labor.
1898 - Yukon Territory of Canada organized - Dawson chosen as capital
1900 - China's Boxer Rebellion, targeting foreigners as well as Chinese Christians, erupted into full-scale violence.
1913 - Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
1917 - Germany bombs London
1921 - Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
1924 - Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers. 3rd forfeit win
1925 - The first telecast of a moving object showed a model windmill with rotating blades. A radio station in Washington, D.C., transmitted the image to a laboratory elsewhere in the city.
1927 - Aviator Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
1933 - 1st sodium vapor lamps installed Schenectady NY
1933 - Federal Savings & Loan Association authorized
1933 - German Secret State Police (Gestapo) established
1937 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
1937 - Stalin executes Russian officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna & Uberevitch
1940 - Paris evacuates before German advance
1942 - 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1942 - Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island
1942 - OSS, Office of Strategic Services, forms
1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Office of War Information, and appointed news commentator Elmer Davis to head it.
1944 - Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks on London during World War II.
1948 - Babe Ruth's #3 is retired
1956 - After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control
1957 - Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth Mass
1958 - Frank Zappa graduated from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, Calif.
1966 - In Miranda vs. Arizona, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police.
1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the Supreme Court.
1969 - Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Sam and Dave, the Staple Singers and others appeared at the Soul Bowl '69 at Houston's Astrodome.
1970 - "The Long and Winding Road" topped the Billboard Hot-100 pop singles chart. It was the 20th and final No.1 single for the Beatles.
1971 - The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam.
1977 - James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., was captured in a Tennessee wilderness area following his escape three days earlier from a Tennessee prison.
1978 - Ford Motor Company Chairman, Henry Ford II, fired Lee Iaccoca from the position of president, ending a bitter personal struggle between the two men.
1979 - Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills SD
1980 - Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
1981 - A scare occurred during a parade in London when a teen-ager fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
1981 - Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"
1982 - Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
1983 - Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave the Solar System.
1986 - Desmond Tutu, the first black bishop of Johannesburg and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize met with South African president and apartheid proponent P. W. Botha.
1986 - Just one month after pulling records by 11 comics and rockers -- including Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, AC/DC and Black Sabbath -- off store shelves in 22 states, Wal-Mart ordered nearly three dozen rock magazines, including Rolling Stone and Tiger Beat, removed.
1986 - Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
1988 - Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer
1990 - Secretary of State James Baker, testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urged Israel to accept a U.S. plan for peace talks.
1990 - Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term
1991 - Tragedy struck the first round of the U.S. Open golf tournament when lightning struck and killed a spectator.
1991 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled a jailed suspect represented by a lawyer in one criminal case sometimes may be questioned by police about another crime without the lawyer present.
1991 - Mick Jagger and his wife, Jerry Hall, announced they were expecting their third child in January.
1991 - Revising a policy with roots to the McCarthy era, the Bush administration agreed to remove almost all 250,000 names on a secret list of unacceptable aliens.
1992 - The U.N. Earth Summit ended in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1992 - Then-Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Clinton stirred controversy
during an appearance before the Rainbow Coalition by criticizing rap singer
Sister Souljah for making remarks that he said were "filled with
hatred" toward whites about Los Angeles riots in 1992. (The Washington Post had quoted her asking, "If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?")
1993 - 20 Somalis were killed and 50 more wounded when Pakistani members of the U.N. peacekeeping forces fired into a crowd of demonstrators protesting U.N. attacks on warlord Mohammed Farah
Aidid.
1993 - Canada got its first woman prime minister when the Progressive Conservative Party elected Kim Campbell to head the party, and thus the country.
1994 - Don Henley attended a special premiere of the new movie "Wolf" in Boston. It was a benefit for Henley's Walden Woods Project in Massachusetts.
1994 - The ex-wife of O.J. Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman, were found stabbed to death outside her condominium in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles.
1995 - France announced it would abandon its moratorium on nuclear testing and conduct eight more tests.
1996 - 16 remaining members of the Freemen militia surrendered, 10 days after the FBI cut off electricity to their Montana compound. The standoff lasted 81 days.
1996 - The Supreme Court placed greater limits on congressional districts intentionally drawn to get more minorities elected to Congress.
1997 - Jurors unanimously recommended convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh be sentenced to death.
1997 - The Chicago Bulls won their fifth National Basketball Association title in seven years when they downed the Utah Jazz, four games to two.
1997 - Two members of the rap group Naughty By Nature were arrested in New York on weapons and reckless driving charges.
1999 - NATO soldiers shot dead two armed men as peacekeepers tried to contain new violence in Kosovo. Russian troops, meanwhile, blocked British troops from entering the airport in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo.
2000 - Tonic headed overseas to entertain U.S. and NATO peacekeeping troops in England and in the war-torn Yugoslav provinces of Bosnia and Kosovo.
2000- Italy pardoned Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who'd tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2000- The presidents of South Korea and North Korea opened a summit in the northern capital of Pyongyang with pledges to seek reunification of the divided peninsula.
2001 - President Bush met behind closed doors with NATO leaders in Brussels,
Belgium, where he pitched his missile defense plans.
Birthdays
Today
0040 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general; conquered Wales, Northern England
0823 - Charles II (the Bald), king of France (843-77) emperor (875-77)
1786 - Winfield Scott, American army general presidential candidate
1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, physicist formulated electromagnetic theory
1865 - William Butler Yeats (Nobel Prize-winning poet & dramatist [1923])
1892 - Basil Rathbone (actor: The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, The Last Hurrah, The Hound of the Baskervilles, House of Fear, David Copperfield, Last Days of Pompeii, Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes, A Christmas Carol, The Comedy of Terrors)
1893 - Dorothy Sayers (Mystery writer )
1903 - Red (Harold) Grange (Pro and College Football Hall of Famer: The Galloping Ghost: Chicago Bears, University of Illinois: running back)
1911 - Luis W Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968)
1912 - Samuel Taylor (playwright: The Freshman, Vertigo, Girl Shy)
1913 - Ralph Edwards (TV and radio host: Truth or Consequences, This is Your Life)
1915 - Don Budge (tennis champion: Australian Open [1938], French Open [1938], Wimbledon [1937, 1938, 1939], U.S. Open [1937, 1938])
1916 - Mary Wickes (Wickenhauser) (actress: Little Women, Sister Act, Postcards from the Edge, How to Murder Your Wife)
1917 - Sy (Simon) Zentner (bandleader, trombonist: Boyd Raeburn Orchestra)
1918 - Ben Johnson (actor: Angels in the Outfield, The Getaway, The Last Picture Show, One-Eyed Jacks, Red Dawn, Shane)
1922 - Mel Parnell (baseball)
1926 - Paul Lynde (comedian, actor: The Paul Lynde Show, Hollywood Squares, Love American Style, Temperatures Rising, Bewitched, The Red Buttons Show; cartoon voice: Claude Pertwee)
1935 - Christo, artist
1936 - Michel Jazy (track)
1940 - Bobby Freeman (singer: Do You Wanna Dance, C'mon and Swim)
1940 - Dallas Long (shot-putter)
1943 - Malcolm McDowell (actor: A Clockwork Orange, O Lucky Man, Blue Thunder, Caligula, Gulag, Look Back in Anger)
1949 - Dennis La Corriere, better known as Dr. Hook (musician: guitar, singer: group: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Sylvia's Mother, Sexy Eyes, The Cover of 'Rolling Stone', When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman)
1950 - J.P. Bordeleau (hockey)
1951 - Richard Thomas AKA John Boy (Emmy Award-winning actor: The Waltons [1973], Roots: The Next Generation, All Quiet on the Western Front, Johnny Belinda)
1952 - Ernie Whitt (baseball)
1954 - Tim "The Tool Man" Allen (actor: Home Improvement)
1962 - Ally (Alexandra) Sheedy (actress: St. Elmo's Fire, Breakfast Club, War Games)
1963 - Bettina Bunge, Tennis player
1971 - Broderick nonuplets, Sydney Australia (7 of 9 survived infancy)
1986 - Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen
1992 - Tyler Davison, world's smallest baby at 6 inches, 11 ounces
Famous
deaths
0323 BC - Alexander the great dies of fever in Babylon at age 33.
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1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist/composer, dies at about 49
1886 - Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, drowns, dies at 40
1939 - Arthur "Doc" Barker one of the infamous Ma Barker's sons is killed by prison guards while trying to escape from Alcatraz
1972 - Clyde McPhatter of the Drifters died of a heart attack. He was just 38. Elvis Presley had often said he wished his voice was the equal of McPhatter's.
1976 - Arizona Republic investigative reporter Don Bolles died as a result of injuries suffered when a bomb blew up his car 11 days earlier. He had been working on an alleged Mafia story at the time of his death.
1977 - Former Supreme Court Justice Tom C Clark died in NY at 77
1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia died at the age of 69; he was succeeded by a
half brother, Crown Prince Fahd.
1986 - "The King of Swing" Benny Goodman died of a heart attack in his New York apartment at age 77.
1987 - Geraldine Page Academy Award winning Actress (The Trip to Bountiful)
dies
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