July 13

July 13th is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining.

Events

• 1878 - The Treaty of Berlin[?] makes Serbia completely independent
• 1930 - The first football World Cup contest is held in Uruguay.
• 1977 - An electrical blackout hits the City of New York, lasting for 25 hours and resulting in looting and other disorder.
• 1985 - The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia
• 2002 - A lighting strike sets off the Sour Biscuit Fire[?] in Oregon and northern California, which had burned 499,570 acres when finally contained on September 5

Births

• 100 BC - Julius Caesar (or July 12), statesman and military leader (+ 44 BC)
• 1816 - Gustav Freitag[?], writer (+ 1895)
• 1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and postwar leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
• 1841 - Otto Wagner[?], architect (+ 1918)
• 1864 - John Jacob Astor, entrepreneur (+ 1912)
• 1913 - Dave Garroway[?], television host) (+ 1982)
• 1918 - Alberto Ascari, motorcycle racer (+ 1955)
• 1927 - Simone Veil[?], politician
• 1928 - Bob Crane, actor, (+ 1978)
• 1928 - Mace Neufeld[?], film producer
• 1933 - David Malcolm Storey[?], writer
• 1934 - Wole Soyinka, writer
• 1934 - Aleksei Yeliseyev, cosmonaut
• 1940 - Patrick Stewart, actor
• 1941 - Robert Forster[?], actor
• 1942 - Harrison Ford, actor
• 1942 - Roger McGuinn, musician
• 1946 - Cheech Marin[?], actor, comedian
• 1953 - Johnny Clegg, composer, musician
• 1957 - Cameron Crowe[?], film director, writer

Deaths

• 1706 - Titus Oates[?], Protestant plotter
• 1793 - Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary (murdered by Charlotte Corday)
• 1951 - Arnold Schoenberg, composer
• 1954 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
• 1970 - Arthur Miller, writer
• 1983 - Gabrielle Roy, author

Holidays and observances

• Kiribati - Independence Day, 2nd day (not a holiday)
• Mongolia - Naadam Holiday[?], 3rd day
• Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kálimát (Words) - First day of the seventh month of the Bahá'í Calendar

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