On This Day

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July 13 Birthdays



Harrison Ford
MOVIE ACTOR

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
July 13, 1942

BIRTHPLACE
Chicago, IL

AGE
77 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Bob Crane
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 13, 1928

BIRTHPLACE
Waterbury, CT

DEATH DATE
Jun 29, 1978 (age 49)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Patrick Stewart
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 13, 1940

BIRTHPLACE
Mirfield, England

AGE
78 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Cheech Marin
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 13, 1946

BIRTHPLACE
Los Angeles, CA

AGE
72 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Ken Jeong
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 13, 1969

BIRTHPLACE
Detroit, MI

AGE
49 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Michael Spinks
BOXER

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
July 13, 1956

BIRTHPLACE
St. Louis, MO

AGE
63 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer

July 13 Deaths




Cory Monteith
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
May 11, 1982

BIRTHPLACE
Calgary, Canada

DEATH DATE
Jul 13, 2013 (age 31)

BIRTH SIGN
Taurus




George Steinbrenner
ENTREPRENEUR

BIRTHDAY
July 4, 1930

BIRTHPLACE
Rocky River, OH

DEATH DATE
Jul 13, 2010 (age 80)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Charles Bachman
COMPUTER SCIENTIST

BIRTHDAY
December 11, 1924

BIRTHPLACE
New York

DEATH DATE
Jul 13, 2017 (age 92)

BIRTH SIGN
Sagittarius




Red Buttons
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
February 5, 1919

BIRTHPLACE
New York City, NY

DEATH DATE
Jul 13, 2006 (age 87)

BIRTH SIGN
Aquarius

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Historical Events on July 13


1787  Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)

1832  Source of Mississippi River discovered by American geographer Henry Schoolcraft

1836  US patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels

1837  Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace

Queen of the United Kingdom
Queen Victoria

1854  US forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua

1861  Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia

1862  Battle of Murfreesboro, fought in Rutherford County, Tennessee begins (Forrest's Raid), Confederate victory (US Civil War)

1863  Battle of Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana

1863  Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die

1863  Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi (Harrisburg) [->JUL 15]

1863  Rebellion at Morgan's, Ohio [->JUL 26]

1864  Early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley

1865  Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the "New-York Tribune" reputedly advises his readers to "Go west young man"

1865  P. T. Barnum's museum burns down

Circus Showman and Businessman
P. T. Barnum

1868  Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana

1898  San Francisco Ferry Building at foot of Market St opens

1919  Race riots in Longview and Gregg counties, Texas

1923  The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland" but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949

Dedication of the"Hollywoodland" sign

1923  American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first recognised dinosaur eggs, in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia

1930  David Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"

1936  112°F (44°C), Mio, Michigan (state record)

1936  114°F (46°C), Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin (state record)

1939  Frank Sinatra makes his recording debut

Singer and Actor
Frank Sinatra

1941  World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).

1942  5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis

1942  German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages

1942  SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland

1943  Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 lost by Germany

1953  Battle of the Kumsong River begins - last major battle of the Korean war

1960  US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate

35th US President
John F. Kennedy

1966  Richard Speck murders 8 nurses in Chicago

1967  Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die

1975  8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record)

1977  NYC experiences 25 hr black-out

1978  BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"

Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious on stage during the band's last show at
Winterland in San Francisco, January 14, 1978

1978  Lee Lacocca fired as president of the Ford Motor Company by chairman Henry Ford II

1979  George Harrison releases single "Faster"

Singer-Songwriter
George Harrison

1982  Iran launches first attack into Iraq

1984  Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert

Hall of Fame rocker
Eddie Van Halen

1984  Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows

1987  Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials

Actress and Singer
Bette Midler

1994  Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan

1994  O.J. Simpson (charged with murder) gives hair samples for testing

NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal
O.J. Simpson

2015  Sandra Bland is found dead in Waller County jail, Texas after spending weekend in jail after a traffic offence. Her family disputes her supposed suicide

2016  Theresa May is elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Conservative Party MPs

British Prime Minister
Theresa May

2018  Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay record $4.7 billion in damages in talc cancer case by jury in US state of Missouri