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13 June, 2005
Michael Jackson cleared of abuse - Pop star Michael Jackson is found not guilty of all charges after a four-month-long child abuse trial.
13 June, 2000
President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
13 June, 1997
A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
13 June, 1996
Guernsey votes to legalise abortion - overturning a ban which dates back to 1910. The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
13 June, 1995
French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
13 June, 1991
Yeltsin wins first Russian elections - Boris Yeltsin celebrates victory as Russia's first popularly-elected president.
13 June, 1983
Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system.
13 June, 1981
Queen shot at by youth - A 17-year-old man, Marcus Sarjeant, is arrested for shooting six blank rounds from a replica gun at the Queen as she rode past crowds in London.
13 June, 1978
Israeli troops leave southern Lebanon - Israeli troops complete their withdrawal from southern Lebanon handing over many of their positions to a right-wing Christian movement.
13 June, 1977
Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
13 June, 1971
Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers.
13 June, 1970
"The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song.
13 June, 1967
Moscow calls for UN action against Israel - The United Nations Security Council rejects Soviet demands for an immediate vote to condemn Israel's aggression in the so-called six-day war.
13 June, 1956
Real Madrid win the inaugural European Champion Clubs' Cup final, defeating Stade de Reims 4-3 at the Parc des Princes, Paris.
13 June, 1955
Mir Mine, the first diamond mine of the USSR, is discovered.
13 June, 1944
World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets. Germany launches a counter attack on Carentan.
13 June, 1935
In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and became the heavyweight champion of the world.
13 June, 1934
Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
13 June, 1920
The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.
13 June, 1913
Great Gorge and International Railway trolley passes under garbage chute in Niagara Falls, New York when it breaks, covering the passenger-loaded car in garbage.
13 June, 1902
Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland.
13 June, 1886
A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
13 June, 1881
The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
13 June, 1774
Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
13 June, 1525
Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy doctrine decreed by the Roman Catholic Church on priests.

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