13 July History


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  • 1099    -    The Crusaders launch their final assault on Jerusalem.
  • 1534    -    Ottoman armies capture Tabriz in northwestern Persia.
  • 1558    -    Led by the court of Egmont, the Spanish army defeats the French at Gravelines, France.
  • 1585    -    A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reaches Roanoke Island, North Carolina.
  • 1643    -    In England, the Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller, are defeated by Royalist troops under Lord Wilmot in the Battle of Roundway Down.
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  • 1754    -    George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to the French, leaving them in control of the Ohio Valley.
  • 1787    -    Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacts the Northwest Ordinance, establishing rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.
  • 1798    -    English poet William Wordsworth visits the ruins of Tintern Abbey.
  • 1832    -    Henry Schoolcraft discovers the source of the Mississippi River in Minnesota.
  • 1862    -    Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats a Union army at Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
  • 1863    -    Opponents of the draft begin three days of rioting in New York City.
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  • 1866    -    The Great Eastern begins a two week voyage to complete a 12-year effort to lay telegraph cable across the Atlantic between Britain and the United States.
  • 1878    -    The Congress of Berlin divides the Balkans among European powers.
  • 1939    -    Frank Sinatra records his first song, "From the Bottom of my Heart," with the Harry James Band.
  • 1941    -    Britain and the Soviet Union sign a mutual aid pact, providing the means for Britain to send war materiel to the Soviet Union.
  • 1954    -    In Geneva, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China and France reach an accord on Indochina, dividing Vietnam into two countries, North and South, along the 17th parallel.
  • 1971    -    The Army of Morrocco executes 10 leaders accused of leading a revolt.
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  • 13 July Birthdays

  • 1793    -    John Clare, English poet.
  • 1886    -    Edward J. Flanagan, Catholic priest, founder of Boys' Town.
  • 1928    -    Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., first African-American chief justice of a state supreme court.
  • 1933    -    David Storey, English novelist (The Sporting Life).
  • 1934    -    Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright.
  • 1935    -    Jack Kemp, football player, politician.