100BC Julius Caesar was born on July 13, 100 BC. in Rome. An ancestor had been untimely ripped from his mother's womb at birth hence his name Caesarian. (from the Latin verb to cut, caedere). His father Caius Julius Caesar, was a Roman Praetor of the most ancient and aristocratic lineage who had encountered hard times. s a young child Caesar used to race around in a little cart pulled by a goat. A show-off as he grew older he would ride at top speed without stirrups with his hands behind his head.
1705 Titus Oates died July 13, 1705. An Anglican priest, he announced that he had discovered a 'popish plot' to murder Charles II and re-establish Catholicism. The story was entirely false but many innocent Catholics were executed. Upon the 1689 accession of the Protestant William of Orange and Mary, Oates was pardoned and granted a pension of £260 a year, but his reputation did not recover.
By the time of Oates' death he was an obscure and largely forgotten figure.
1787 The Northwest Ordinance was enacted on July 13, 1787. It was the first federal law that prohibited slavery in a U.S. territory. The Ohio River served as the boundary between free and slave territory in the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
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1705 Titus Oates died July 13, 1705. An Anglican priest, he announced that he had discovered a 'popish plot' to murder Charles II and re-establish Catholicism. The story was entirely false but many innocent Catholics were executed. Upon the 1689 accession of the Protestant William of Orange and Mary, Oates was pardoned and granted a pension of £260 a year, but his reputation did not recover.
By the time of Oates' death he was an obscure and largely forgotten figure.
1787 The Northwest Ordinance was enacted on July 13, 1787. It was the first federal law that prohibited slavery in a U.S. territory. The Ohio River served as the boundary between free and slave territory in the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
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1793 Charlotte Corday assassinated Jean-Paul Marat, a leader in the French Revolution, in his bathtub on July 13, 1793. His death was one of the pretexts for the subsequent Reign of Terror, a ten-month period of systematic repression and mass executions by guillotine of perceived enemies within France.
1802 National French Fry Day is celebrated each year on July 13th. French fries were invented in Belgium. One of the earliest references to fried potato strips being referred to as “French" was in 1802 when Thomas Jefferson had the White House chef, Frenchman Honoré Julien, prepare “potatoes served in the French manner” for a dinner party. He described them as “Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small cuttings”.
1807 Henry Benedict Stuart, younger brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie died on July 13, 1807, ending the Stuart male line and Jacobites dynasty. A Roman Catholic cardinal, as well as the fourth and final Jacobite heir to claim the thrones of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland publicly, Stuart made no effort to seize the throne, unlike his father, James Francis Edward Stuart, and brother, Charles Edward Stuart.
1837 Buckingham Palace was built in 1705 as the town house of the Duke of Buckingham. It was originally known as Buckingham House. King George III brought Buckingham House as a gift for his newly wed wife, Queen Charlotte, leaving St James Palace to be the official royal residence. Queen Victoria became the first monarch to live at Buckingham Palace, after moving there on July 13, 1837.
1865 P. T. Barnum purchased Scudder's American Museum on the corner of Broadway and Ann Street in New York City in 1841. He converted it into a combination zoo, museum, lecture hall, wax museum, theater and freak show museum, which offered both strange and educational attractions. At its peak, the museum had as many as 15,000 visitors a day, but on July 13, 1865 the building burned to the ground in one of the most spectacular fires New York has ever seen.
1876 One of the first recorded games of water polo was played at Bournemouth, England on July 13, 1876. The game of water ‘handball’ was played by 12 members of the Premier Rowing Club in the water near to the midpoint of Bournemouth Pier. It lasted for 15 minutes until the ball burst.
1911 The future Edward VIII was officially invested as Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarvon Castle on July 13, 1911. Aged 17, he was tutored by future Prime Minister David Lloyd George to speak a few words of Welsh.
1917 The Virgin Mary is said to have entrusted three revelations to some Fátima shepherd children on July 13, 1917. Two of the revelations were revealed in 1941 in a document written by one of the children, Lúcia dos Santos, who had become a Carmelite nun. The first was a vision of Hell. In the second the Madonna prophesied the end of World War I, but another World War would follow. She also predicted the spread of communism with much persecution for believers but later the conversion of Russia.
1923 In 1887 Harvey Wilcox of Kansas started selling off 120 acres he owned in Southern California as a real estate development. His wife, Daeida, named it Hollywood. The Hollywoodland Sign was officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, on July 13, 1923. The last four letters of the sign were removed after renovation in 1949
1925 Walt Disney proposed to his eventual wife ink artist Lillian Bounds by saying, "I've got $75; shall I buy a new car or a wedding ring?" They married in Lewiston, Idaho on July 13, 1925. The ceremony was taken by Reverend D.J.W. Somerville. Their marriage produced two daughters, Diane (born December 1933) and Sharon (adopted in December 1936, born six weeks previously).
1930 France defeated Mexico 4-1 and the US beat Belgium 3-0 in the first-ever World Cup football matches played on July 13, 1930 in Uruguay. At the first World Cup Egypt missed their boat, Bolivia wore berets, a player was suspended for opening a cafe, a referee called the final whistle after 84 minutes, another referee did all his games in suit, tie and knickerbockers, and a Romanian was believed to have died before turning up at his wake.
1939 When Frank Sinatra was just starting out as a singer, he carried his own P.A. system to the dives in which he typically performed. He got his big break when bandleader Harry James' wife heard him sing as a waiter and recommended him to her husband.Sinatra made his first commercial recording on July 13, 1939 — "From The Bottom Of My Heart" and "Melancholy Mood" with Harry James and his Orchestra for the Brunswick label. No more than 8,000 copies of the record were sold.
1942 Harrison Ford was born July 13, 1942, at Chicago, Illinois's Swedish Covenant Hospital and graduated from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois in 1960. Hillary Clinton attended Maine East from 1961–1964. Though Ford didn't meet her at the school, he later became a close friend and golf partner of Bill Clinton. Ford worked as a carpenter in Los Angeles before achieving fame in movies, garnering a reputation as one of the best cabinetmakers in the city.
1802 National French Fry Day is celebrated each year on July 13th. French fries were invented in Belgium. One of the earliest references to fried potato strips being referred to as “French" was in 1802 when Thomas Jefferson had the White House chef, Frenchman Honoré Julien, prepare “potatoes served in the French manner” for a dinner party. He described them as “Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small cuttings”.
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1807 Henry Benedict Stuart, younger brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie died on July 13, 1807, ending the Stuart male line and Jacobites dynasty. A Roman Catholic cardinal, as well as the fourth and final Jacobite heir to claim the thrones of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland publicly, Stuart made no effort to seize the throne, unlike his father, James Francis Edward Stuart, and brother, Charles Edward Stuart.
1837 Buckingham Palace was built in 1705 as the town house of the Duke of Buckingham. It was originally known as Buckingham House. King George III brought Buckingham House as a gift for his newly wed wife, Queen Charlotte, leaving St James Palace to be the official royal residence. Queen Victoria became the first monarch to live at Buckingham Palace, after moving there on July 13, 1837.
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1865 P. T. Barnum purchased Scudder's American Museum on the corner of Broadway and Ann Street in New York City in 1841. He converted it into a combination zoo, museum, lecture hall, wax museum, theater and freak show museum, which offered both strange and educational attractions. At its peak, the museum had as many as 15,000 visitors a day, but on July 13, 1865 the building burned to the ground in one of the most spectacular fires New York has ever seen.
1876 One of the first recorded games of water polo was played at Bournemouth, England on July 13, 1876. The game of water ‘handball’ was played by 12 members of the Premier Rowing Club in the water near to the midpoint of Bournemouth Pier. It lasted for 15 minutes until the ball burst.
1911 The future Edward VIII was officially invested as Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarvon Castle on July 13, 1911. Aged 17, he was tutored by future Prime Minister David Lloyd George to speak a few words of Welsh.
1917 The Virgin Mary is said to have entrusted three revelations to some Fátima shepherd children on July 13, 1917. Two of the revelations were revealed in 1941 in a document written by one of the children, Lúcia dos Santos, who had become a Carmelite nun. The first was a vision of Hell. In the second the Madonna prophesied the end of World War I, but another World War would follow. She also predicted the spread of communism with much persecution for believers but later the conversion of Russia.
1923 In 1887 Harvey Wilcox of Kansas started selling off 120 acres he owned in Southern California as a real estate development. His wife, Daeida, named it Hollywood. The Hollywoodland Sign was officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, on July 13, 1923. The last four letters of the sign were removed after renovation in 1949
1925 Walt Disney proposed to his eventual wife ink artist Lillian Bounds by saying, "I've got $75; shall I buy a new car or a wedding ring?" They married in Lewiston, Idaho on July 13, 1925. The ceremony was taken by Reverend D.J.W. Somerville. Their marriage produced two daughters, Diane (born December 1933) and Sharon (adopted in December 1936, born six weeks previously).
1930 France defeated Mexico 4-1 and the US beat Belgium 3-0 in the first-ever World Cup football matches played on July 13, 1930 in Uruguay. At the first World Cup Egypt missed their boat, Bolivia wore berets, a player was suspended for opening a cafe, a referee called the final whistle after 84 minutes, another referee did all his games in suit, tie and knickerbockers, and a Romanian was believed to have died before turning up at his wake.
1939 When Frank Sinatra was just starting out as a singer, he carried his own P.A. system to the dives in which he typically performed. He got his big break when bandleader Harry James' wife heard him sing as a waiter and recommended him to her husband.Sinatra made his first commercial recording on July 13, 1939 — "From The Bottom Of My Heart" and "Melancholy Mood" with Harry James and his Orchestra for the Brunswick label. No more than 8,000 copies of the record were sold.
1942 Harrison Ford was born July 13, 1942, at Chicago, Illinois's Swedish Covenant Hospital and graduated from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois in 1960. Hillary Clinton attended Maine East from 1961–1964. Though Ford didn't meet her at the school, he later became a close friend and golf partner of Bill Clinton. Ford worked as a carpenter in Los Angeles before achieving fame in movies, garnering a reputation as one of the best cabinetmakers in the city.
1951 The Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg suffered from Triskaidekaphobia, which is the fear of the number 13. As 7+6=13 he feared he would die aged 76. And he did: Schoenberg passed away in Los Angeles on Friday, July 13, 1951, at 13 minutes to midnight. Schoenberg's ashes were later interred at the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna on June 6, 1974.
1972 Frasier was an 18-year-old circus lion from Mexico, who was given to The Lion Country Safari franchise in Irvine, California in 1970. He was blind, had no teeth, and could barely walk, but ended up siring 35 cubs. By the time Frasier the Sensuous Lion died of pneumonia on July 13, 1972, he had become a media sensation.
1977 On July 13, 1977 New York City, amidst a period of financial and social turmoil, experienced an electrical blackout. The shutdown lasted nearly 24 hours and it led to widespread fires, citywide looting and other disorders, including arson.
2016 Theresa May succeeded David Cameron as United Kingdom's Prime Minister on July 13, 2016 becoming the second female head of government. In 2016, Theresa May's salary as Prime Minister was £143,462. After versions of her draft withdrawal agreement from the European Union were rejected by Parliament three times, she resigned in 2019 and was succeeded by Boris Johnson, her former Foreign Secretary.
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