Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 13
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This is a list of selected July 13 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.July 13: National Day of Commemoration in Ireland (2008); Traditional date of the Bon Festival in Japan
- 1772 – HMS Resolution set sail from Plymouth, England, under the command of Captain James Cook.
- 1793 – Jean-Paul Marat (pictured), a leader in the French Revolution, was murdered in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday. The death was later portrayed in the painting The Death of Marat.
- 1863 – Three days of rioting began in New York City by opponents of new laws passed by the United States Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
- 1878 – The major powers in Europe redrew the map of the Balkans in the Treaty of Berlin.
- 1985 – Live Aid benefit concerts, organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia, were held at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.