Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 13

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 * 1260 – Livonian Crusade: Samogitian forces defeated Teutonic knights and the Livonian Order at the Battle of Durbe.
 * 1643 – English Civil War: Royalist forces defeated the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Roundway Down near Devizes, Wiltshire.
 * 1863 – Four days of rioting began in New York City in response to laws passed by the U.S. Congress to draft men to fight in the American Civil War.
 * 1913 – While on a campaign in Bulgaria, the Romanian Army suffered a cholera outbreak that led to around 1,600 deaths.
 * 1942 – World War II: The 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment was converted from a battalion to accommodate a larger number of volunteers spurred on by the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.
 * 1973 – Watergate scandal: Under questioning by Senate investigators, White House deputy chief of staff Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence of a secret taping system (tape recorder pictured) in the Oval Office.
 * 2003 – French Directorate-General for External Security personnel aborted an operation to rescue Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt from FARC guerrillas, resulting in a political scandal.
 * 2013 – Typhoon Soulik made landfall in East China and Taiwan, killing at least 20 people.
 * 2020 – After a five day search, the body of American actress and singer Naya Rivera was recovered from Lake Piru, confirming her death.


 * Born/died: | Wu Yuanheng |d|815| Hubert Walter|d|1205| Afonso, Hereditary Prince of Portugal|d|1491| Cataldo Amodei|d|1693| Nathan Bedford Forrest|b|1821| Margaret Murray|b|1863| Stan Coveleski|b|1889| Tasunka Kokipapi|d|1893| Kenneth Clark|b|1903| Kate Sheppard|d|1934| Ernő Rubik|b|1944| Harrison Ford|b|1942| Frida Kahlo|d|1954| Ba Cụt |d|1956| Lucinda Ruh|b|1979| Leda Valladares|d|2012| Liu Xiaobo|d|2017|