June 13 Historical Events

The following events took place on June 13. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 49 events. Showing 31 - 49.

• 1982
  Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
• 1982
  Riccardo Paletti, was killed when he crashed on the start grid for the Canadian Grand Prix
• 1983
  Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the farthest planet from the Sun at the time).
• 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.
• 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.
• 1996
  The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
• 1997
  A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• 1997
  Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India, killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.
• 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.

• 2000
  Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
• 2002
  The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 2002
  Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the U.S.
• 2005
  A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
• 2007
  The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
• 2010
  A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
• 2012
  A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
• 2013
  Czech investigative authorities start a raid against organized crime, affecting the top levels of Czech politics.
• 2015
  The Wedding of Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland, and Sofia Hellqvist takes place in Stockholm, Sweden.
• 2015
  A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in the Texas city of Dallas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police.