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June 13

 * 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
 * 1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda.
 * 1944 - Germans launch counter attack on Carentan.
 * 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
 * 1995 - French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.