Major Events
- 1772 Captain James Cook begins his second voyage to the South Seas aboard HMS Resolution to search for Terra Australis (Southern Continent)
- 1832 Source of Mississippi River discovered by American geographer Henry Schoolcraft
- 1835 Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw propeller design
- 1870 King Wilhelm I of Prussia sends the “Emser Depeche (Ems Telegram)” to Otto von Bismarck who publishes an edited version to purposely offend the French government precipitating the Franco-German War
- 1966 A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founds the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement) in New York City
- 2024 Former US President Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt at an outdoor campaign rally in rural Butler, Pennsylvania; gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks fires 6 to 8 shots killing one spectator, critically wounding two, and hits Trump in the ear with a bullet before being killed by a Secret Service sniper
Jul 13 in Film & TV
- 1923 The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads “Hollywoodland,” but the last four letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
Jul 13 in Music
- 1956 RCA releases Elvis Presley‘s single “Hound Dog”, a cover of Big Mama Thorton’s original, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, backed with “Don’t Be Cruel”, written by Otis Blackwell
- 1985 Live Aid concerts held at both Wembley Stadium (London) and JFK Stadium (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) raise over $70 million for African famine relief
Jul 13 in Sport
- 1930 First football World Cup competition begins in Uruguay
Did You Know?
Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the “New-York Tribune,” reputedly advises his readers to “Go west, young man”
Fun Fact About July 13
Dean of St. Paul’s London, Alexander Nowell, perfects a way to bottle beer
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