July 13

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on July 13. From 1900 until now. July 13 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Harrison Ford (1942), Simone Veil (1927) and Patrick Stewart (1940). Several movies were released around July 13 over the years, such as The Dark Knight Rises in 2012 directed by Christopher Nolan and Crossfire in 1947 directed by Edward Dmytryk.
But much more happened on July 13 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Mongolia - Naadam Holiday, 3rd day
Bah�'f Faith - Feast of K�lim�t (Words) - First day of the seventh month of the Bah�'f Calendar
Bon Festival - Buddhist festival to honor the dead (East Japan)
Kiribati - Independence Day, 2nd day (not a holiday)

Events

2019 War in Afghanistan: Taliban gunmen storm a hotel in Badghis Province, killing four soldiers and two civilians. Three of the five gunmen are killed and two are arrested. (RFE/RadioLiberty)A U.S. soldier is also killed in a separate bombing in Wardak Province. (Al Jazeera)
2018 2018 Mastung suicide bombing; Pakistani general election, 2018: A suicide bomb attack near Mastung, Pakistan, kills 129 people, including political party candidate Siraj Raisani, during a political campaign. This is the third consecutive attack on a political rally. (RTÉ.ie)
2017 Crime in Mexico: Masked men attack a child's birthday party in Tizayuca, Hidalgo, killing 11 adults. (BBC)
2016 Iraqi Civil War: A car bomb explodes at a checkpoint north of Baghdad, killing at least seven people. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
2015 Burundi's army kills 31 suspected rebels and captures 170 others in fighting in the country's north. (ABC News via AP)
2014 Operation Protective Edge:: Israel Defense Forces special forces raid a missile launch site in the Gaza Strip and destroy it. (CNN)
2013 The African Union – United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur confirms that seven peacekeepers were killed and 17 injured in a patrol while returning to their base in Manawashi near Nyala, the capital of Sudan's South Darfur state. (France 24)
2012 Delta Air Lines flight 126 en route to Madrid turns around and lands back at JFK following a security problem with some cut wires being discovered in the plane's bathroom. (NBC)
2011 13 July 2011 Mumbai bombings:
2010 George Steinbrenner, New York Yankees owner (1973-), dies at age 80 in Tampa, Florida, after a heart attack.
2009 Twelve European companies launch the €400nbspbillion Desertec project to build solar thermal power stations in North Africa. (Bloomberg)
2008 US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson unveils an emergency plan to save Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, mortgage holders of US$5.2 trillion.
2007 Conrad Black is found guilty on three charges of fraud and one charge of obstruction of justice in Chicago. (BBC)
2006 Alaksandar Kazulin, a candidate for President of Belarus against Alexander Lukashenko, is jailed for five and a half years for organising protests against Lukashenko's re-election. (Reuters)
2005 The National Hockey League labor dispute, the longest work stoppage in North American professional sports, ends after 301 days. (CBC)
2004 Khaled al-Harbi, a disabled militant Saudi sheikh linked to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, turns himself in to the Saudi authorities in Tehran under an amnesty program of the Saudi King. (BBC)
2003 A national governing council meets for the first time in Baghdad, as US troops launch a new assault on anti-coalition elements.
2001 The People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation sign the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation.
2000 July 25 ampndash Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO head Yasser Arafat meet at Camp David, but fail to reach an agreement.
1997 15th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Larry Gilbert
1996 Cigar wins record 16th straight win, (ties Citation in 1940)
1995 Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), launches
1994 Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1993 64th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore
1992 Yitzhak Rabin becomes prime minister of Israel.
1990 An earthquake with its epicentre in Afghanistan results in the greatest number of fatalities in a mountaineering accident in High Asian mountains when an avalanche kills 43 climbers in Camp I on Pik Lenina (Lenin Peak).
1988 9th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1986 In the California - Mexico border region, a magnitude 5.3 earthquake occurs.
1985 Live Aid concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief
1984 Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert
1982 53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal
1979 George Harrison releases Faster
1978 BBC bans Sex Pistols No One is Innocent
1977 New York City, amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences a blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.
1976 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia
1975 Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1974 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham
1973 Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
1971 42nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-4 at Tiger Stadium, Detroit
1970 Building begins of Amsterdam metro
1969 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
1968 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland
1967 Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die
1966 Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago
1965 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minnesota
1963 Early Wynn wins his 300th and last game at age 43.
1962 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea
1961 Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-US composer (Second Quartet), dies at age 86.
1960 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
1958 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham
1956 WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland
1952 East Germany announces the formation of its National People's Army.
1950 Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams elbow
1949 Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics
1948 The attempted assassination of Palmiro Togliatti, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, incites numerous strikes all over the country.
1946 Tidbits of 1946 closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 8 performances
1945 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico
1944 Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
1943 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
1942 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by Nazis
1941 24th PGA Championship: Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills Country Club - Denver
1939 Frank Sinatra made his recording debut
1936 A Midwestern U.S. heat wave sets the all-time highest temperature records for Wisconsin (46 C), Michigan (44 C), and Indiana (47 C).
1935 Richard Strauss resigns as Chairman of Reichskulturkammer
1934 Babe Ruth hits home run number 700 against Detroit Tigers.
1930 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay
1926 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4)
1925 French occupation force begins evacuating country
1924 Albin Stenroos wins Olympic marathon (2:41:22.6)
1923 Draft law passes
1920 London County Council bars foreigners from council jobs.
1919 Chicago White Sox pitcher Carl Mays walks off mound blaming teammates for lack of support afield
1918 The National Czechoslovak Committee is established.
1914 Reports surface of a projected Serbian attack upon the Austro-Hungarian Legation at Belgrade.
1905 The verdict in the six-month long Smarthavicharam trial of Kuriyedath Thathri is pronounced, leading to the excommunication of 65 men of various castes.
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