Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 13

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 * 1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, the largest warship ever built at the time, was launched from Woolwich Dockyard, England.
 * 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: Meriwether Lewis became the first white American to sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
 * 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Mont Sorrel in the Ypres Salient came to an end as a Canadian assault led German forces to withdraw to their original lines.
 * 1935 – In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
 * 1944 – Second World War: At the Battle of Villers-Bocage, German tank commander Michael Wittmann destroyed around 30 Allied vehicles in less than 15 minutes.
 * 1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
 * 1971 – The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.
 * 1981 – English teenager Marcus Sarjeant fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony.
 * 1983 – Pioneer 10 passed the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.
 * 2007 – Insurgents carried out a second bombing at the al-Askari Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam.
 * 2011 – A 6.0 Mw earthquake caused up to NZ$6 billion of additional damage to Christchurch, New Zealand, which was still recovering from an earthquake four months earlier.
 * Born/died: | Charles the Bald |b|823| Mansur I |d|976| Veronica Gambara |d|1550| Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet |b|1617| Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès |d|1846| W. B. Yeats |b|1865| Karl Blossfeldt |b|1865| Dorothy L. Sayers  |b|1893| Carolyn Eisele |b|1902| Augusto Roa Bastos |b|1917|Marianne Means |b|1934|Christo and Jeanne-Claude |b|1935 Rivers Cuomo |b|1970| Birger Ruud |d|1998 Malik Meraj Khalid |d|2003 |Mitsuharu Misawa|d|2009