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July 13

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

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4 Holidays and observances

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

See Also:

July 12 - July 14 - June 13 - August 13 - more listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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