June 13 has produced turning points in politics, science, culture, war, law, and technology. This timeline collects notable events recorded for this calendar day.
The list below is generated from public historical datasets and refreshed automatically by date.
Timeline for June 13
2025Twelve-Day War
Israel initiates air strikes against Iran, initiating the Twelve Day War.
2023Kwara boat disaster
At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria.
20232023 Nottingham attacks
Three people are killed and another three injured in an early morning stabbing and van ramming attack in Nottingham, England.
20212021 Shiyan pipeline explosion
A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.
2018Volkswagen
Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal.
20152016 shooting of Dallas police officers
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.
201213 June 2012 Iraq attacks
A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
2010Hayabusa
A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback.
2007Al-Askari Shrine
The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
2005Trial of Michael Jackson
The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of his charges for allegedly sexually molesting a child in 1993.
2002Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2000Kim Dae-jung
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.
2000Mehmet Ali Ağca
Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
1999BMW
BMW win 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans
1997Timothy McVeigh
A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
1997Uphaar Cinema fire
The Uphaar Cinema Fire took place at Green Park, Delhi, resulting in the deaths of 59 people and seriously injured 103 others.
1996Montana Freemen
The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
1996Garuda Indonesia Flight 865
Garuda Indonesia flight 865 crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, killing three people and injuring 170.
1994Anchorage, Alaska
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.
1990June 1990 Mineriad
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.
1983Pioneer 10
Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
1982Fahd of Saudi Arabia
Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
1982Battle of Mount Tumbledown
Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.
1981Trooping the Colour
At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
1977Martin Luther King Jr.
Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
1973Philadelphia Phillies
In a game versus the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium, Los Angeles Dodgers teammates Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Bill Russell play together as an infield for the first time, going on to set the Major League Baseball record of staying together for 8+1⁄2 years.
1971Vietnam War
Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
1967Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1966Supreme Court of the United States
The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their Fifth Amendment rights before questioning them (colloquially known as "Mirandizing").
1952Catalina affair
Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
1944World War II
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.
194417th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen
World War II: German combat elements, reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
1944V-1 flying bomb
World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.
1927Charles Lindbergh
Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade up 5th Avenue in New York City.
1917World War I
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.
1898Yukon
Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
1895Émile Levassor
Émile Levassor wins the world's first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about fifteen miles per hour (24 km/h).
1893Grover Cleveland
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.
1886Great Vancouver Fire
A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
1881USS Jeannette (1878)
The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1878Congress of Berlin
Start of the Congress of Berlin in which the major powers of Europe revise the Treaty of San Stefano, signed on March 3 the same year, that Russia had imposed on a defeated Ottoman Empire.
1855Giuseppe Verdi
Twentieth opera of Giuseppe Verdi, Les vêpres siciliennes ("The Sicilian Vespers"), is premiered in Paris.
1850American League of Colored Laborers
The American League of Colored Laborers, the first African American labor union in the United States, is established in New York City.
1805Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
1777American Revolutionary War
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.
1774Rhode Island
Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
1740Province of Georgia
Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
1625Charles I of England
King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury.
1525Martin Luther
Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
1514Henry Grace à Dieu
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.
1381Peasants' Revolt
In England, the Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, comes to a head, as rebels set fire to the Savoy Palace.
1325Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years).
313Edict of Milan
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.
