Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 13

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  James Braddock
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  Mir mine, Siberia
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  Pioneer 10 under construction
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  Pioneer 10 plaque
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  Al-Askari Mosque in 2006
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  Katharina von Bora
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  Sofia Hellqvist
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  Black Eagle Falls, Montana
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  Henry Grace à Dieu as depicted in the Anthony Roll

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
313 – The Edict of Milan, an agreement between Constantine the Great and Licinius to treat Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire, was posted in Nicomedia.	Too much uncited
1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria was found dead in Lake Starnberg near Munich under mysterious circumstances.	trivia
1898 – The Yukon Territory was formed in Canada, splitting from the Northwest Territories after the area's population substantially increased due to the Klondike Gold Rush.	outdated
1955 – Soviet geologists discovered a diamond-bearing deposit in Eastern Siberia, leading to the construction of the Mir mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR and the second-largest excavated hole in the world.	Date not in source cited
1966 – The Miranda v. Arizona landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court established the Miranda warning, requiring law enforcement to advise suspects in custody of their rights to remain silent and to obtain an attorney.	lots of CN tags (5)
1982 – Fahd became King of Saudi Arabia, succeeding his half-brother Khalid upon the latter's death.	neutrality issues
1997 – In one of the worst fire tragedies in recent Indian history, 59 people died and 103 others were seriously injured during a premiere screening of the film Border at the Uphaar Cinema in Green Park, Delhi.	refimprove section
2010 – The Japanese Hayabusa space mission became the first to return samples of an asteroid (25143 Itokawa) to Earth for analysis.	refimprove section
2015 – The royal wedding between Prince Carl Philip and glamour model Sofia Hellqvist took place in Stockholm, Sweden.	unreferenced section
2019 – Two oil tankers were attacked in the Gulf of Oman amidst heightened tensions between Iran and the United States.	Tagged for update needed
Fernando Pessoa |b|1888	refimprove/unreferenced sections
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen|b|1986	additional citations for verification

Eligible

• 1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, the largest warship ever built at the time, was launched from Woolwich Dockyard, England.
• 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: Meriwether Lewis became the first white American to sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
• 1850 – The American League of Colored Laborers, one of the first labor unions for African Americans, was established in New York City.
• 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Mont Sorrel in the Ypres Salient came to an end as a Canadian assault led German forces to withdraw to their original lines.
• 1935 – In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
• 1944 – Second World War: At the Battle of Villers-Bocage, German tank commander Michael Wittmann destroyed around 30 Allied vehicles in less than 15 minutes.
• 1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
• 1971 – The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.
• 1981 – English teenager Marcus Sarjeant fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony.
• 1983 – Pioneer 10 passed the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.
• 2007 – Insurgents carried out a second bombing at the al-Askari Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam.
• 2011 – A 6.0 M_w earthquake caused up to NZ$6 billion of additional damage to Christchurch, New Zealand, which was still recovering from an earthquake four months earlier.
• Born/died: | Charles the Bald|b|823| Mansur I |d|976| Veronica Gambara |d|1550| Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet |b|1617| Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès |d|1846| [[W. B. Yeats|Template:Nowrap Yeats]] |b|1865| Karl Blossfeldt |b|1865| Dorothy L. Sayers |b|1893| Carolyn Eisele |b|1902| Augusto Roa Bastos |b|1917| Marianne Means |b|1934| Christo and Jeanne-Claude |b|1935| Ban Ki-moon |b|1944| Tim Allen |b|1953| Yamandú Orsi |b|1967| Rivers Cuomo |b|1970| Thabo Bester |b|1986| Birger Ruud |d|1998| Malik Meraj Khalid |d|2003| Mitsuharu Misawa|d|2009|

Notes

• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band appears on May 26, so Long and Winding Road should not appear in the same year

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• 1525 – Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, beginning the practice of clerical marriage in Protestantism.
• 1881 – The Jeannette expedition to reach the North Pole from the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait came to an end when the USS Jeannette (pictured), after having been trapped in ice for almost two years, was crushed and sank.
• 1952 – Soviet aircraft shot down a Swedish military plane carrying out signals-intelligence gathering operations, followed three days later by the shootdown of a second plane searching for the first one.
• 1969 – Preston Smith, Governor of Texas, signed a law converting a research arm of Texas Instruments into the University of Texas at Dallas.
• 2013 – Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech prime minister Petr Nečas were arrested for corruption.