13 June
Notable Births
Macklin Celebrini
b. 2006
Canadian ice hockey player (born 2006)
Bowen Byram
b. 2001
Canadian ice hockey player (born 2001)
Sung Han-bin
b. 2001
South Korean singer (born 2001)
Penny Oleksiak
b. 2000
Canadian swimmer (born 2000)
Emily Fanning
b. 1995
New Zealand tennis player
Deepika Kumari
b. 1994
Indian archer and Olympian
Atsuhiro Inukai
b. 1994
Japanese actor (born 1994)
Simona Senoner
b. 1993
Italian ski jumper (1993–2011)
Denis Ten
b. 1993
Kazakh figure skater (1993–2018)
Semi Radradra
b. 1992
Fiji international dual-code rugby footballer
Will Claye
b. 1991
American triple jumper and long jumper (born 1991)
Ryan Mason
b. 1991
English association football player and manager (born 1991)
Kang Si-ra
b. 1991
South Korean singer (born 1991)
James McCann (baseball)
b. 1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Andrzej Lepper
b. 1954
Polish politician (1954–2011)
John Forbes Nash Jr.
b. 1928
American mathematician and Nobel Laureate (1928–2015)
Leo Kanner
b. 1894
Austrian-American physician and psychiatrist
Gao Qifeng
b. 1889
Chinese painter (1889–1933)
W. B. Yeats
b. 1865
Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
Frances Burney
b. 1752
English novelist, diarist and playwright (1752–1840)
Notable Deaths
Angela Bofill
d. 2024
American R&B singer (1954–2024)
Cormac McCarthy
d. 2023
American writer (1933–2023)
Ned Beatty
d. 2021
American actor (1937–2021)
Buddy Boudreaux
d. 2015
Musical artist
Sergio Renán
d. 2015
Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter
Mike Shrimpton
d. 2015
New Zealand cricketer (1940–2015)
Mahdi Elmandjra
d. 2014
Moroccan economist, sociologist and futurologist
Gyula Grosics
d. 2014
Hungarian footballer and manager (1926–2014)
Chuck Noll
d. 2014
American football player and coach (1932–2014)
Robert Peters (writer)
d. 2014
American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor and actor
Sam Most
d. 2013
American jazz musician (1930–2013)
Albert White Hat
d. 2013
Native American language activist (1938–2025)
Sam Beddingfield
d. 2012
American test pilot and aerospace engineer (1933–2012)
Graeme Bell
d. 2012
Australian jazz pianist, composer and band leader (1914–2012)
Roger Garaudy
d. 2012
French philosopher and politician (1913 – 2012)
Mehdi Hassan
d. 2012
Pakistani ghazal singer (1927–2012)
Jimmy Dean
d. 2010
American singer, television host and actor (1928–2010)
Mitsuharu Misawa
d. 2009
Japanese professional wrestler (1962–2009)
Tim Russert
d. 2008
American lawyer and TV journalist (1950–2008)
Charles Haughey
d. 2006
Taoiseach (1979–1981, 1982, 1987–1992)
On This Day in History
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2025
Israel initiates air strikes against Iran, initiating the Twelve Day War.
Twelve-Day War
2023
At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria.
Kwara boat disaster
2023
Three people are killed and another three injured in an early morning stabbing and van ramming attack in Nottingham, England.
2023 Nottingham attacks
2021
A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.
2021 Shiyan pipeline explosion
2018
Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal.
Volkswagen
2015
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.
2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
2012
A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
13 June 2012 Iraq attacks
2010
A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback.
Hayabusa
2007
The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
Al-Askari Shrine
2005
The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of his charges for allegedly sexually molesting a child in 1993.
Trial of Michael Jackson
2002
The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
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.
Kim Dae-jung
2000
Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
Mehmet Ali Ağca
1999
BMW win 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans
BMW
1997
A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Timothy McVeigh
1997
The Uphaar Cinema Fire took place at Green Park, Delhi, resulting in the deaths of 59 people and seriously injured 103 others.
Uphaar Cinema fire
1996
The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
Montana Freemen
1996
Garuda Indonesia flight 865 crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, killing three people and injuring 170.
Garuda Indonesia Flight 865
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.
Anchorage, Alaska
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.
June 1990 Mineriad