Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on July 13 throughout history.
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government a…
Former president of the United States Donald Trump is injured in an assassination attempt while speaking at an…
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative…
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May.
The Germany national football team represents Germany in men's international football and played its first match in 1908. The team is governed by the German Football Association, …
Germany wins the FIFA World Cup, defeating Argentina in the final 1–0 after extra time.
Typhoon Soulik, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Huaning, was a powerful tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in Taiwan and East China in mid-July 2013. It is the sev…
Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan.
Mumbai, also known as Bombay, is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India, with an estimated…
Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 was adopted without a vote on 13 July 2011 after examining the application of the Republic of South Sudan for membership into the U…
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of United Nations.
On 13 July 2011, Noar Linhas Aéreas Flight 4896, a Let L-410 Turbolet passenger aircraft on a domestic service from Recife to Mossoró, Brazil, crashed shortly after take-off in th…
Noar Linhas Aéreas Flight 4896 crashes in Boa Viagem, Recife, killing all 16 people on board.
The Battle of Wanat took place on July 13, 2008, when around 200 Taliban insurgents attacked American troops stationed in the Waygal district of Afghanistan's far eastern Nuristan…
Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in…
The Directorate General for External Security is France's foreign intelligence agency, equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, established on 27 November 1943. The DGS…
French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political…
Space Shuttle Discovery is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operation…
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-70 to deploy the TDRS-7 satellite.
The Lenin Peak disaster occurred on 13 July 1990 when 43 climbers were killed during an avalanche on the 7,134-meter-high mountain peak in northeast Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The…
Lenin Peak disaster: a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan triggers an avalanche on Lenin Peak, killing 43…
Live Aid was a two-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise furthe…
The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.
The vice president of the United States is the second-highest office in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks fi…
Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes…
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. Stretching across the Horn of Africa, it borders Ethiopia to the west, Djibo…
Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War.
Immediately after World War II, New York City became known as one of the world's greatest cities. However, after peaking in population in 1950, the city began to feel the effects …
Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil, New York City experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24…
The Watergate scandal, or simply Watergate, was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon. On June 17, 1972, operatives asso…
Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators…
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Super…
In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking…
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered to be the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field. The w…
The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
Vuoristorata is a wooden roller coaster located at the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland. It was built in the winter of 1950 by Linnanmäki's staff on the basis of dra…
Vuoristorata, one of the oldest still-operating wooden roller coasters in Europe, is opened at the Linnanmäki…
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. World War II…
World War II: Montenegrins begin the Trinaestojulski ustanak (Thirteenth of July Uprising), a popular revolt against…