Today in history - June 13

in history •  5 years ago 

Happened today

  • 1373 - England and Portugal sign an alliance treaty that has never been broken.
  • 1774 - Rhode Island is the first of the thirteen American colonies to outlaw the importation of slaves.
  • 1878 - The Congress of Berlin begins.
  • 1995 - President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in Polynesia.
  • 2005 - Michael Jackson is declared not guilty for all the accusations concerning pedophilia.

Born Today

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Thomas Young (1773)
Harry Shannon (1890)


Died Today

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Matthew Garber (1977)
Jimmy Dean (2010)


Today's quote

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

~Thomas Young


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