June 13 birthdays & history

Famous people born on June 13

• 1831James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician
• 1865W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 1888Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic
• 1928John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1981Chris Evans, American actor and producer
• 1773Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist
• 1911Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943Malcolm McDowell, English actor and producer
• 1966Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician

What happened on June 13

• 1805Lewis and Clark Expedition: Meriwether Lewis became the first white American to sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
• 1850The American League of Colored Laborers, one of the first labor unions for African Americans, was established in New York City.
• 1855Twentieth opera of Giuseppe Verdi, Les vêpres siciliennes ("The Sicilian Vespers"), is premiered in Paris.
• 1881The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• 1895Émile Levassor wins the world's first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about fifteen miles per hour (24 km/h).
• 1898Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
• 1927Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade up 5th Avenue in New York City.
• 1967U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1969Preston Smith, Governor of Texas, signed a law converting a research arm of Texas Instruments into the University of Texas at Dallas.
• 1970"The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
• 1973In a game versus the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium, Los Angeles Dodgers teammates Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Bill Russell play together as an infield for the first time, going on to set the Major League Baseball record of staying together for 8+1⁄2 years.
• 1983Pioneer 10 passed the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.

Also observed on June 13

• Inventors' Day (Hungary)
• International Albinism Awareness Day (international)