| 13 June 323 BC | Macedon [births and deaths] | Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, who conquered Persia and much of the Near East, develops a fever and dies in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon (now in Iraq) (c. 33). |
| 13 June 1547 | Habsburg Monarchy, Ottoman Empire, Hungary [treaties] | The Archduke Ferdinand I of Austria, king of the Romans (the German king) and of Bohemia, agrees a five-year peace with the Ottoman sultan Suleiman I the Magnificent; he will pay 30,000 ducats annual tribute for the title ‘king of Hungary’ and for control of the northern and western fringes of the kingdom. |
| 13 June 1865 | Ireland [births and deaths] | W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats, Irish poet, dramatist, and nationalist, born in Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland (–1939). |
| 13 June 1900 | China [revolution] | The Boxer Rebellion by supporters of the Society of Harmonious Fists begins in China, in opposition to the growth of European influence there. |
| 13 June 1942 | USA [World War II (1939–45)] | The Office of War Information in the USA is created to manage the government's information activities. |
| 13 June 1944 | UK, Germany [World War II (1939–45)] | Germany launches the first V1 (Vergeltungswaffen, ‘retribution weapon’) pilotless flying-bombs from mainland Europe against London, England, in retaliation against Allied bombing of German cities. |
| 13 June 1971 | Australia [everyday life] | Geraldine Boodrick gives birth to the world's first set of nonuplets, five boys and four girls, in Sydney, Australia. Only six of the babies survive. |
| 13 June 1983 | USA [space exploration] | The US space probe Pioneer 10, launched 3 March 1972, becomes the first artificial object to leave the Solar System. |
| 13 June 1995 | France, Pacific [political events] | President Jacques Chirac of France announces a series of eight nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific (breaking France's self-imposed halt in testing of April 1992). |
| 13 June 2000 | North Korea, South Korea [diplomacy] | North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and South Korean leader Kim Dae Jung meet for the first time at a peace summit in Pyongyang, North Korea. It is the first time that leaders of the two countries have met in 55 years. |
| 13 June 2002 | [treaties] | The 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty between the USA and the then Soviet Union lapses as the US's notification to Russia in December 2001 of its intention to withdraw comes into effect. Despite Russian opposition and wider international concern, the US government claims that the treaty – long considered an important check on the global proliferation of long-range and nuclear weapons – is an outdated relic of the Cold War era. The US move clears the way for the development of its controversial National Missile Defense (NMD) system. |
