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What Happened on July 13th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	After a five-day search, the body of American actress and singer Naya Rivera is recovered from Lake Piru, where she drowned in California.
2016	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May.
2013	Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan.
2011	Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.
2011	United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of United Nations.
2008	Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
2003	French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.
1990	Lenin Peak disaster: a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan triggers an avalanche on Lenin Peak, killing 43 climbers in the deadliest mountaineering disaster in history.
1985	The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.
1985	Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
1977	Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War.
1977	New York City: Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.
1973	Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee.
1962	In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.
1956	The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
1941	World War II: Montenegrins begin the Trinaestojulski ustanak (Thirteenth Uprising), a popular revolt against the Axis powers.
1930	The inaugural FIFA World Cup begins in Uruguay.
1919	The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
1913	The 1913 Romanian Army cholera outbreak during the Second Balkan War starts.
1878	Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
1863	New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
1854	In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General José María Yáñez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.
1831	Regulamentul Organic, a quasi-constitutional organic law is adopted in Wallachia, one of the two Danubian Principalities that were to become the basis of Romania.
1830	The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengali Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
1814	The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established.
1794	The Battle of Trippstadt between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria begins.
1793	Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
1787	The Congress of the Confederation enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
1643	English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down: In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.
1586	Anglo–Spanish War: A convoy of English ships from the Levant Company manage to repel a fleet of eleven Spanish and Maltese galleys off the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria.
1573	Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
1558	Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.
1260	The Livonian Order suffers its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the Battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1249	Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
1174	William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.

Famous People Born on July 13

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Year	Name
1918	Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)
1953	David Thompson, American basketball player
1969	Ken Jeong, American actor, comedian, and physician
1951	Rob Bishop, American educator and politician
1941	Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter and translator (d. 2005)
1907	George Weller, American author, playwright, and journalist (d. 2002)
1915	Kaoru Ishikawa, Japanese author and educator (d. 1989)
1939	Lambert Jackson Woodburne, South African admiral (d. 2013)
1745	Robert Calder, Scottish-English admiral (d. 1818)
1922	Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar, Egyptian military commander (d. 2011)

Famous People Deaths On July 13

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Date	Name
1983	Gabrielle Roy, Canadian engineer and author (b. 1909)
2015	Philipp Mißfelder, German historian and politician (b. 1979)
1807	Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian cardinal, pretender to the British throne and last member of the House of Stuart (b. 1725)
1491	Afonso, Portuguese prince (b. 1475)
1793	Jean-Paul Marat, French physician and theorist (b. 1743)
1893	Young Man Afraid of His Horses, American tribal chief (b. 1836)
1976	Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (b. 1884)
1967	Tom Simpson, English cyclist (b. 1937)
1997	Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
1941	Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (b. 1913)