13-06-2013, 10:36
June 13th
1902 - Finland: Russia intensifies the process of "Russianisation" by imposing Russian as the official language.
1906 - France: Scientists claim they have successfully immunised cattle against tuberculosis.
1914 - Russia: The monk Gregory Rasputin, confidant of the Czar and Czarina is stabbed and wounded.
1915 - London: King George strips his cousin the German Kaiser of the Order of the Garter.
1922- Vienna: Austria announces it is bankrupt.
1929 - China: Soviet troops cross the Chinese border in retaliation for raids on USSR consulates.
1930 - Miami: Al Capone is arrested on a perjury charge.
1934 - Berlin: Hitler rejects a mutual aid pact with the USSR.
1941 - Vichy: Petain announces the arrest of 12,000 Jews for "plotting to hinder Franco-German co-operation.
1944 - Britain: The first V-1 bomb lands in England.
1949 - Tokyo: General Macarthur accuses the USSR of inciting disorder in Japan.
1953 - Britain: Jim Peters is the first person to run a marathon in under two hours, twenty minutes.
1956 - Vienna: Herbert von Karajan is made artistic director of the Vienna State Opera.
1957 - New York: Lawrence Olivier's "The Prince and the Showgirl" starring Marilyn Monroe, has it's premiere.
1967 - Washington: Thurgood Marshall is appointed the first black member of the US supreme court.
1972 - Mediterranean: Israeli and Egyptian warplanes clash for the first time in 22 months.
1974 - London: Prince Charles makes his maiden speech in the House of Lords, the first such Royal speech in 90 years.
1978 - Lebanon: The Israeli's withdraw the last of their troops in the south of the region.
1982 - Saudi Arabia: The reigning Monarch King Khalid dies aged 69 in Taif.
1986 - Johannesburg: Bishop Desmond Tutu meets President Botha for the first time in six years to protest against the state of emergency.
1991 - Russia: In the first free elections of Russia's 1,000 year history Boris Yeltsin is voted in as President.
1997- Colorado: Timothy McVeigh is sentenced to death for the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma.
2007 - Mongolia: Gigantorapor Erlianensis, a gigantic birdlike dinosaur is discovered by palaeontologist Xu Xing in Inner Mongolia.
1902 - Finland: Russia intensifies the process of "Russianisation" by imposing Russian as the official language.
1906 - France: Scientists claim they have successfully immunised cattle against tuberculosis.
1914 - Russia: The monk Gregory Rasputin, confidant of the Czar and Czarina is stabbed and wounded.
1915 - London: King George strips his cousin the German Kaiser of the Order of the Garter.
1922- Vienna: Austria announces it is bankrupt.
1929 - China: Soviet troops cross the Chinese border in retaliation for raids on USSR consulates.
1930 - Miami: Al Capone is arrested on a perjury charge.
1934 - Berlin: Hitler rejects a mutual aid pact with the USSR.
1941 - Vichy: Petain announces the arrest of 12,000 Jews for "plotting to hinder Franco-German co-operation.
1944 - Britain: The first V-1 bomb lands in England.
1949 - Tokyo: General Macarthur accuses the USSR of inciting disorder in Japan.
1953 - Britain: Jim Peters is the first person to run a marathon in under two hours, twenty minutes.
1956 - Vienna: Herbert von Karajan is made artistic director of the Vienna State Opera.
1957 - New York: Lawrence Olivier's "The Prince and the Showgirl" starring Marilyn Monroe, has it's premiere.
1967 - Washington: Thurgood Marshall is appointed the first black member of the US supreme court.
1972 - Mediterranean: Israeli and Egyptian warplanes clash for the first time in 22 months.
1974 - London: Prince Charles makes his maiden speech in the House of Lords, the first such Royal speech in 90 years.
1978 - Lebanon: The Israeli's withdraw the last of their troops in the south of the region.
1982 - Saudi Arabia: The reigning Monarch King Khalid dies aged 69 in Taif.
1986 - Johannesburg: Bishop Desmond Tutu meets President Botha for the first time in six years to protest against the state of emergency.
1991 - Russia: In the first free elections of Russia's 1,000 year history Boris Yeltsin is voted in as President.
1997- Colorado: Timothy McVeigh is sentenced to death for the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma.
2007 - Mongolia: Gigantorapor Erlianensis, a gigantic birdlike dinosaur is discovered by palaeontologist Xu Xing in Inner Mongolia.