History of the Day for:
June 13
- 1888: Congress created the Department of Labor.
- 1898: The Yukon Territory of Canada was organized.
- 1900: China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted into violence.
- 1942: President Roosevelt created the Office of War Information, and appointed radio news commentator Elmer Davis to be its head.
- 1944: Nazi Germany began flying?bomb attacks on Britain.
- 1966: The Supreme Court ruled in "Miranda vs. Arizona" that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional rights before they are questioned by police.
- 1967: President Lyndon Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall as the first African?American justice on the Supreme Court.
- 1971: "The New York Times" began publishing the "Pentagon Papers," a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam.
- 1983: Pioneer Ten, the U.S. space probe launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune.
- 1986: Benny Goodman, clarinetist/orchestra leader known as "The King of Swing," died in New York at age 77.
- 1988: A federal jury found cigarette manufacturer Liggett Group liable in the lung?cancer death of Rose Cipollone, but innocent of misrepresenting the risks of smoking.
- 1993: Canada's Progressive Conservative Party chose Defense Minister Kim Campbell as the first female prime minister.
- 1997: A jury voted unanimously to give Timothy McVeigh the death penalty for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
- 1997: Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India, killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.
- 1997: American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16 years on the run, though he would not return for another four years.
- 2000: President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
- 2000: Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
- 2002: The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 2005: A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
- 2007: The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a third time.