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Day Of The Week: July 13
July 13, 2024 is the 195th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 171 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Cancer is your zodiac sign. Ruby is your modern birthstone. Ruby is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: July 13
- 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.
- 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.
- 1787 –The Continental Congress 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.
- 1814 –The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established.
- 1854 –In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.
- 1905 –The verdict in the six-month long Smarthavicharam trial of Kuriyedath Thathri is pronounced, leading to the excommunication of 65 men of various castes.
- 1941 –World War II: Montenegrins begin a popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak), the first in Axis-controlled countries.
- 1973 –Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the “Nixon tapes” to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
- 1990 –An earthquake with its epicentre in Afghanistan results in the greatest number of fatalities in a mountaineering accident in High Asian mountains when an avalanche kills 43 climbers in Camp I on Pik Lenina (Lenin Peak).
- 2008 –War in Afghanistan: Taliban guerrillas attack NATO troops near the village of Wanat in the Waygal district in Afghanistan’s far eastern province of Nuristan.
Who were born on July 13?
- 1590 –Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
- 1927 –Simone Veil, French politician
- 1948 –Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter
- 1956 –Michael Spinks, American boxer
- 1966 –Gerald Levert, American R&B singer (d. 2006)
- 1967 –Dean Barnett, American blogger (d. 2008)
- 1977 –Ashley Scott, American actress
- 1984 –Ida Maria, Norwegian singer
- 1988 –Steven R. McQueen, American actor
- 1989 –Charalampos Giannopoulos, Greek basketball player
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