more events on June 13
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1983
Pioneer 10, already in space for 11 years, leaves the solar system.
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1979
Sioux Indians are awarded $105 million in compensation for the 1877 U.S. seizure of the Black Hills in South Dakota.
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1978
Israelis withdraw the last of their invading forces from Lebanon.
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1971
The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers.
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1949
Installed by the French, Bao Dai enters Saigon to rule Vietnam.
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1944
The first German V-1 buzz-bomb hits London.
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1943
German spies land on Long Island, New York, and are soon captured.
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1940
Paris is evacuated as the Germans advance on the city.
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1923
The French set a trade barrier between occupied Ruhr and the rest of Germany.
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1920
The U.S. Post Office Department rules that children may not be sent by parcel post.
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1903
Harold “Red” Grange, American football player.
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1894
Mark Van Doren, American poet, writer and educator.
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1893
Dorothy Leigh Sayers, English detective writer, creator of Lord Peter Wimsey.
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1865
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist.
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1863
Confederate forces on their way to Gettysburg clash with Union troops at the Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia.
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1831
James C. Maxwell, scientist.
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1786
Winfield Scott, U.S. Army general.
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1777
The Marquis de Lafayette arrives in the American colonies to help in their rebellion against Britain.
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1752
Fanny Burney, English writer.
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40
Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general.