13 Julie

The 13t o Julie is the 194t day o the year (195t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 171 days ti come.

Events

1930: Poster for first FIFA Warld Cup in Uruguay

2014: Germany wins the FIFA Warld Cup in Brazil

• 1174 - William the Lion, Keeng o Scots, is captured at Alnwick, Northumberland, bi forces lyal tae Henry II o Ingland.
• 1249 - Coronation o King Alexander III o Scotland.
• 1501 - Basel jyns the Swiss Confederation.
• 1772 - James Cook stairts his seicont voyage frae Plymouth.
• 1793 - In Fraunce, Charlotte Corday kills Jean-Paul Marat.
• 1814 - The Carabinieri, Italy's naitional gendarmerie, is foondit.
• 1878 - The Treaty o Berlin grants Serbie an Montenegro unthirldom frae the Ottoman Empire.
• 1908 - Weemen compete at the Olympic Gemmes for the first time.
• 1930 - Stairt o the first FIFA Warld Cup in Uruguay: Lucien Laurent o Fraunce scores the first goal, against Mexico.
• 1941 - Warld War II: The Montenegrins stairt an uprisin against the Axis pouers.
• 1977 - A 25-oor black-oot stairts in New York Ceety.
• 1977 - Somalie declares war on Ethiopie.
• 1985 - Live Aid concerts tak place warldwide tae raise money for Africae.
• 2000 - A landslide in Mumbai kills 250 fowk.
• 2000 - A mudslide in Shaanxi province, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, kills 120 fowk.
• 2001 - Beijing is gien the richt tae host the 2008 Simmer Olympics.
• 2004 - Montenegro adopts its current banner.
• 2011 - E'en rush-oor bomb attacks kill 26 fowk in Mumbai.
• 2014 - Germany wins the 2014 FIFA Warld Cup, in Brazil, against Argentinae.
• 2016 - Theresa May becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick, succeedin David Cameron.
• 2018 - A terrorist attack in Mastung, Pakistan, kills 149 fowk.
• 2018 - Donald Trump maks his first veesit tae Scotland syne he acame Preses o the Unitit States, tae play gowf at his Turnberry coorse. He is met wi protests.
• 2019 - Tennis: Simona Halep wins her first Wimbledon teetle, defeatin Serena Williams in straicht sets.

Births

Wole Soyinka

Patrick Stewart

• 100 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman general an statesman (d. 44 BC)
• 1590 - Pape Clement X (d. 1676)
• 1608 - Ferdinand III, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1657)
• 1811 - George Gilbert Scott, Inglis airchitect (d. 1888)
• 1811 - James Young, Scots chemist (d. 1883)
• 1881 - Willie Kyle, Scots rugby union player (d. 1959)
• 1883 - Jack Reagan, faither o Unitit States Preses Ronald Reagan (d. 1941)
• 1918 - Alberto Ascari, Italian racin driver (d. 1955)
• 1922 - Anker Jorgensen, Prime meenister o Denmark (d. 2016)
• 1924 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor (d. 2014)
• 1924 - George Farm, Scots fitbawer (d. 2004)
• 1927 - Simone Veil, French politeecian (d. 2017)
• 1932 - Hubert Reeves, Canadian astropheesicist
• 1934 - Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer
• 1940 - Patrick Stewart, Inglis actor
• 1942 - Harrison Ford, American actor
• 1944 - Erno Rubik, Hungarian inventor an airchitect (Rubik's Cube)
• 1946 - Cheech Marin, American actor an comedian
• 1950 - Ma Ying-jeou, umwhile Preses o the Republic o Cheenae
• 1954 - Sezen Aksu, Turkish sangster
• 1963 - Hammy McMillan, Scots curler
• 1965 - Akina Nakamori Japanese sangster an actress
• 1973 - Roberto Martínez, Spaingie fitbawer an fitbaw manager
• 1974 - Jarno Trulli, Italian racin driver
• 1976 - Chris Innes, Scots fitbawer
• 1979 - Craig Bellamy, Welsh fitbawer
• 1988 - Tulisa, Inglis sangster

Daiths

• 574 - Pape John III
• 939 - Pape Leo VII
• 1024 - Henry II, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 973)
• 1122 - Sybilla o Normandy, Queen Consort o Scots (b. 1092)
• 1793 - Jean-Paul Marat, French politeecian (b. 1743)
• 1921 - Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg-French pheesicist an inventor (b. 1845)
• 1924 - Alfred Marshall, Inglis economist (b. 1842)
• 1946 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
• 1951 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrick componer (b. 1874)
• 1954 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican penter (b. 1907)
• 1980 - Seretse Khama, first Preses o Botswana (b. 1921)
• 2014 - Nadine Gordimer, Sooth African writer (b. 1923)
• 2017 - Liu Xiaobo, Cheenese human richts activist (b. 1955)

Halidays

• Statehood Day (Montenegro)