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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