June 13th, 1956

Born on June 13th, 1956

Age in days, weeks and months
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What 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

Governor of Texas Preston Smith 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, 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.

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.

June 13th, 1525

Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, beginning the practice of clerical marriage in Protestantism.

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

Born on June 13th, 1956

67

Leonid Taranenko

Belarusian Soviet weightlifter

*June 13th, 1956, Malaryta

67

Blair Chapman

Canadian ice hockey player

*June 13th, 1956, Lloydminster

67

Sal Paolantonio

Sports announcer

*June 13th, 1956, Queens

67

Shunichi Mizuoka

Japanese politician

*June 13th, 1956, Hyogo Prefecture

67

Ryszard Woźniak

Polish painter, performer and teacher

*June 13th, 1956, Białystok

67

Lee Hyun-se

South Korean cartoonist

*June 13th, 1956, Uljin County

67

Francesco Alfano

Italian Catholic archbishop

*June 13th, 1956, Nocera Inferiore

67

Hans Grunder

Swiss politician

*June 13th, 1956, Rüderswil

62

Yurik Vardanyan

Soviet weightlifter

*June 13th, 1956, Gyumri †November 1st, 2018, United States of America

67

José Elías Moreno González de Cossío

Mexican actor

*June 13th, 1956, Mexico City

67

Pedro Larraquy

Argentine footballer

*June 13th, 1956, Buenos Aires

67

Francis Hervieu

French canoeist

*June 13th, 1956, Saint-Lô

67

Dorothée Jemma

French actress

*June 13th, 1956, Paris

Same Day
Who's birthday is on June 13th?

54

Søren Rasted

Danish musician

*June 13th, 1969, Blovstrød

69

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Nigerian-American economist

*June 13th, 1954, Ogwashi-Uku

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

26

Yuta Watanabe

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1997, Suginami-ku

64

Klaus Iohannis

President of Romania from 2014-

*June 13th, 1959, Sibiu

60

Michal Malý

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1963, Hradec Králové

80

Malcolm McDowell

British actor (born 1943)

*June 13th, 1943, Horsforth

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

66

Janet Hemingway

British parasitologist

*June 13th, 1957, West Yorkshire

57

Nick Ponting

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1966, London

68

Annette Kansy

German figure skater

*June 13th, 1955, Dresden

53

Sandra Dimbour

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1970, Saint-Denis

70

Tim Allen

American actor and comedian

*June 13th, 1953, Denver

64

Boyko Borisov

Bulgarian politician

*June 13th, 1959, Bankya

47

Qiang Hong

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1976, Jiangsu

70

Greg Cohen

American musician

*June 13th, 1953, Los Angeles

50

Kim Sønderholm

Danish actor and film director

*June 13th, 1973, Aarhus

35

Nikita Khakimov

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1988, Moscow

68

Alan Hansen

Scottish footballer (born 1955)

*June 13th, 1955, Alloa

30

Kai Schäfer

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1993, Darmstadt

Same year
Born in 1956

68

Peter Hook

English musician

*February 13th, 1956, Salford

67

Charles M. Huber

German actor and politician

*December 3rd, 1956, Munich

68

Sheila McCarthy

Canadian actress

*January 1st, 1956, Toronto

67

Stephan Barratt-Due

Norwegian musician

*June 1st, 1956, Oslo

67

Tom Hanks

American actor and film producer (born 1956)

*July 9th, 1956, Concord

67

Theresa May

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019

*October 1st, 1956, Eastbourne

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

60

Carrie Fisher

American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)

*October 21st, 1956, Burbank †December 27th, 2016, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

23

Ian Curtis

British musician (1956–1980)

*July 15th, 1956, Stretford †May 18th, 1980, Macclesfield

67

Valgerd Svarstad Haugland

Norwegian politician

*August 23rd, 1956, Kvam Municipality

67

Ulrike Meyfarth

German former high jumper

*May 4th, 1956, Frankfurt

67

Martyn Ware

English musician

*May 19th, 1956, Sheffield

68

Gunnar Brands

German classical archaeologist

*March 30th, 1956, Duisburg

67

Justus Carrière

German actor

*May 16th, 1956, Schwerin

68

Michel Houellebecq

French writer

*February 26th, 1956, Saint-Pierre

68

Bryan Cranston

American actor, director, and producer

*March 7th, 1956, Hollywood

62

Minken Fosheim

Norwegian actress (1956-2018)

*March 20th, 1956, Oslo †June 7th, 2018, Oslo

68

Imelda Staunton

English actress (born 1956)

*January 9th, 1956, London

67

Andreas Bornschein

German association football player

*November 29th, 1956, Leipzig

67

Han Jian

Chinese badminton player

*July 6th, 1956, Liaoning

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Leap year

Yes: 1956 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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