June 13
June 13th is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap yearss), with 201 days remaining.
Events:
- 1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda.
- 1966 - The Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
- 1967 - Thurgood Marshall nominated as first African American justice in the Supreme Court.
Births:
- 823 - Charles the Bald, Roman emperor and king of the West Franks (+ 877)
- 1865 - William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1923 (+ 1939)
- 1870 - Jules Bordet, physicist and microbiologist (+ 1961)
- 1887 - Bruno Frank, author (+ 1945)
- 1892 - Basil Rathbone
- 1893 - Dorothy Sayers, author (+ 1957)
- 1897 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (+ 1973)
- 1935 - Christo, artist, wrapper
Deaths:
- 1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia
Holidays and observances:
- Feast of St Anthony of Padua
See Also:
June 12 - June 14 - May 13 - July 13 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December