Some of the significant events which took place on July 13 taken from the leaf of History:
1558 – The Flemish army under Duke of Egmont in service of Spain’s King Philip II, aided by an English fleet, defeats the French at Gavelines.
1793 – French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is murdered in his bath by patriot Charlotte Corday.
1822 – The Greeks defeat Turks at Thermopylae in Greece.
1830 – The Scottish church college was established by popular Indian religious and social reformer, Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Alexander Duff, a Christian missionary in India. The school had a humble beginning with only five students. Located in Kolkota, the Scottish Church College is one of the oldest colleges for liberal arts and sciences in India.
1837 – King William approves the naming of Adelaide after his queen.
1854 – Abbas I, Viceroy of Egypt, is murdered, and succeeded by Mohammed Said.
1863 – Rioting against US Civil War military conscription breaks out in New York City, and about 1000 people are killed in three days of disorder.
1878 – Russo-Turkish War ends.
1905 – Gandhi opposes the Bengal Partition and supports boycott of British-made goods.
1911 – Britain and Japan renew their alliance for four years.
1912 – Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area at Yanco, NSW, is officially opened.
1913 – Industrialist Tulsi Prasad Khaitan is born in Chandi village, Bihar
1930 – The first-ever soccer World Cup competition begins in Montevideo, Uruguay.
1945 – Ben Chifley becomes Australian prime minister following the death of John Curtin.
1947 – The Indian Independence Bill becomes an Act.
1955 – Ruth Ellis becomes the last woman to be hanged in Britain, after she had murdered her lover.
1960 – John F Kennedy wins the Democratic presidential nomination at his party’s convention in Los Angeles.
1985 – Live Aid concert watched by 1.5 billion around the world raises $100 million for African famine relief.
1990 – Mayors of Moscow and Leningrad show solidarity with populist Boris Yeltsin by resigning from the Communist Party on the last day of the Party Congress.
1997 – A 12-year-old Canberra girl is killed by a chunk of flying metal when the implosion to level the old Royal Canberra Hospital goes wrong.
2000 – Vietnam signs a landmark trade deal with the United States that clears the way for normal trade relations for the first time since the Vietnam War.
2001 – Fiji’s coup leaders release their remaining 18 captives, ending a two-month-old parliamentary hostage crisis.
2003 – The International AIDS Society (IAS) holds its second international conference in Paris to examine scientific developments in the fight against AIDS.
2004 – The Red Cross says it suspects the United States is holding terror suspects secretly in locations across the world despite granting the organisation access to thousands of detainees in Iraq and elsewhere.
2005 – Bernard Ebbers, the folksy entrepreneur who built WorldCom Inc into a telecommunications giant, is sentenced to 25 years in prison for business fraud.
2006 – Peter Costello accuses Prime Minister John Howard of reneging on a deal to hand over power in his second term in office.
2007 – Argentina’s Supreme Court throws out a 1989 presidential pardon absolving a former army general of alleged human rights abuses during Argentina’s dictatorship.
2008 – Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Sydney for World Youth Day events.
2010 – Swiss authorities declare Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski a free man.
2011 – Rupert Murdoch’s dream of controlling a British broadcasting behemoth evaporates after he withdraws his bid for BSkyB.
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