Monday, June 13, 2011

June 13

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 1373 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force. The Beach Boys Friends Friends
2 1893 Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death. The Band Look Out Cleveland The Band
3 1934 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey". The Spiders Mr. Monkey Let's Go Spiders!
4 1955 Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered. Battles Ddiamondd Mirrored
5 1966 The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them. Poison Idea I Gotta Right Best of Poison Idea
6 1970 "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song. The Beatles The Long and Winding Road Let It Be
7 1983 Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time). Boduf Songs I Am Going Away and I Am Never Coming Back This Alone Above All Else In Spite of Everything

(Historical facts about June 13 are from Wikipedia.)

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