June 13th, 1944

Born on June 13th, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 29,000 days old!

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What happened on June 13th, 1944?

June 13th, 1944

World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb

June 13th, 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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

What else happened on June 13th?

June 13th, 2013

Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech prime minister Petr Nečas were arrested for corruption.

June 13th, 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.

June 13th, 2007

Insurgents carried out a second bombing at the al-Askari Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam.

June 13th, 1996

After an 81-day standoff sparked by their refusal to be evicted from their foreclosed property in Jordan, Montana, the Christian Patriot group Montana Freemen surrendered to the FBI.

June 13th, 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.

June 13th, 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.

June 13th, 1970

"The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

June 13th, 1969

Preston Smith, Governor of Texas, signed a law converting a research arm of Texas Instruments into the University of Texas at Dallas.

June 13th, 1952

Soviet aircraft shot down a Swedish military plane carrying out signals-intelligence gathering operations, followed three days later by the shootdown of a second plane searching for the first one.

June 13th, 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.

June 13th, 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.

June 13th, 1881

The Jeannette expedition to reach the North Pole from the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait came to an end when the USS Jeannette (pictured) was finally crushed and sank after having been trapped in ice for almost two years.

June 13th, 1805

Lewis and Clark Expedition: Meriwether Lewis became the first white American to sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on June 13th

Born on June 13th, 1944

80

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

80

Joe Amato

American dragster driver

*June 13th, 1944, Exeter

80

Jim Suttle

American politician

*June 13th, 1944, Morrison

80

Tom Alandh

Swedish journalist

*June 13th, 1944, Stockholm

80

Bjørn Tveter

Norwegian speed skater

*June 13th, 1944, Sandefjord Municipality

70

Levi Watkins

American surgeon (1944-2015)

*June 13th, 1944, Parsons †April 11th, 2015, Baltimore

80

Edelgard Wendorf

German handball player

*June 13th, 1944, Opalenica

80

David Curry

British politician (born 1944)

*June 13th, 1944, Burton upon Trent

80

Robert W. Field

American chemist

*June 13th, 1944, Wilmington

80

Terry Evanshen

Player of American and Canadian football

*June 13th, 1944, Montreal

80

Larry Kennan

American football coach

*June 13th, 1944, Pomona

80

Þórhallur Sveinsson

Icelandic cross-country skier

*June 13th, 1944, Siglufjörður

80

Kent Dawson

American judge

*June 13th, 1944, Ogden

80

Gord Arrowsmith

English-born Canadian soccer referee

*June 13th, 1944, London

80

Gary Keller

American basketball player, center, power forward

*June 13th, 1944, Elizabeth

80

Lee M. Thomas

Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1985-1989

*June 13th, 1944, Ridgeway

80

E. Brian Davies

British mathematician

*June 13th, 1944, Cardiff

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Who's birthday is on June 13th?

81

Malcolm McDowell

British actor (born 1943)

*June 13th, 1943, Horsforth

55

Søren Rasted

Danish musician

*June 13th, 1969, Blovstrød

45

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

27

Yuta Watanabe

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1997, Suginami-ku

83

Esther Ofarim

Israeli singer

*June 13th, 1941, Safed

70

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Nigerian-American economist

*June 13th, 1954, Ogwashi-Uku

87

Erich Ribbeck

German football player and coach

*June 13th, 1937, Wuppertal

61

Michal Malý

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1963, Hradec Králové

74

Barry Wood

Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Durban (1942-2017)

*June 13th, 1942, Gqeberha †May 2nd, 2017, Durban

58

Nick Ponting

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1966, London

83

Frans Verbeeck

Cyclist

*June 13th, 1941, Langdorp

54

Sandra Dimbour

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1970, Saint-Denis

48

Qiang Hong

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1976, Jiangsu

36

Nikita Khakimov

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1988, Moscow

65

Klaus Iohannis

President of Romania from 2014-

*June 13th, 1959, Sibiu

27

070 Shake

American rapper (born 1997)

*June 13th, 1997, North Bergen

86

John Forbes Nash

American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)

*June 13th, 1928, Bluefield †May 23rd, 2015, Monroe Township

51

Kim Sønderholm

Danish actor and film director

*June 13th, 1973, Aarhus

75

Ulla Schmidt

German politician (SPD)

*June 13th, 1949, Aachen

71

Tim Allen

American actor and comedian

*June 13th, 1953, Denver

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Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

80

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

80

John Rhys-Davies

Welsh actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Gernot Erler

German politician

*May 3rd, 1944, Meissen

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

80

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

79

Bernard Hill

British actor (1944–2024)

*December 17th, 1944, Manchester †May 5th, 2024, London

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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