Friday, June 14, 2013

June 13 in history


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313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.

1381 – The Peasants' Revolt led by Wat Tyler culminated in the burning of the Savoy Palace.

1514 – 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.

1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.

1625 – King Charles I of England marries Henrietta Maria of France, Princess of France.

1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.

1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

1777 – American Revolutionary War: Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, with the intention of serving in the Continental army under the famed George Washington.

1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.

1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.

1886 – Great Vancouver Fire; A fire destroys most of the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia.

1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.

1888 – Congress creates the U.S. Department of Labor.

1893 – 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.

1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.

1910 – The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines.

1917 – World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.

1920 – After several incidents of parents “mailing” their children because it was the cheapest means of transport, the U.S. Post Office declares that children cannot be sent by parcel post. 

1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.

1944 – World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.

1944 – World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets. The first V1 flying bomb, or "doodle bug", landed at Railway Bridge on Grove Road, Bow. London.

1948 – Fans bid a final farewell to baseball legend Babe Ruth at Yankee Stadium. He passed away just about two months later.

1952 – Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.

1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.

1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.

1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" becomes The Beatles' last U.S. number one song.

1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.

1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

1978 – Israel Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.

1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

1982 – Riccardo Paletti, was killed when he crashed on the start grid for the Canadian Grand Prix.

1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the farthest planet from the Sun at the time).

1990 – 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-Ceaușescu elections.

1994 – 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.

1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.

1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

1997 – Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India, killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.

2000 – 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.

2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

2002 – Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the U.S.

2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.

2007 – The Al Askari Mosque, a Shī‘ah Muslim holy site in the Iraqi city of Sāmarrā, is bombed for a second time.

2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.

2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.

2013 – Czech investigative authorities start a raid against organized crime, affecting the top levels of Czech politics.

2015 – The Wedding of Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland, and Sofia Hellqvist takes place in Stockholm, Sweden.

2015 – A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in the Texas city of Dallas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Anthony of Padua, Confessor.      Double.


Contemporary Western

Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church


Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran

G.K. Chesterton (Episcopal Church (USA))


Eastern Orthodox


Saints

Martyr Aquilina of Byblos in Syria (293)
Saint Triphyllius, Bishop of Leucosia (Nicosia) in Cyprus (370)
Martyr Antonina of Nicaea (4th c.)
Saint Anna and her son Saint John of Constantinople (826)
Saint Antipater of Bostra in Arabia, bishop (5th c.)
Saint Andronicus, disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh (1395)
Saint Sabbas of Moscow, abbot (15th c.)
Saint James, monk
Patriarch Eulogius I of Alexandria (607)
Martyr Diodorus of Emesus, who was crucified

Other commemorations

Finding of the relics of Martyr Nicholas of Lesbos, deacon
Repose of Abbess Alexandra, foundress of Diveyevo Convent (1798)

Coptic Orthodox

Saint Theodorus the Confessor



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