By the Numbers: July 13

On this day in history, July 13, the following events took place.

100 BC

The year Julius Caesar was born.

1568

The year Alexander Nowell, dean of St. Paul’s, London, perfected a method for bottling beer.

1772

The year Capt. James Cook began his second voyage aboard the Resolution to the south seas in search of a southern continent.

1793

The year journalist and revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was murdered while bathing by political opponent Charlotte Corday.

1832

The year the source of the Mississippi was discovered by American geographer Henry Schoolcraft.

1865

The year Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the New York Tribune, advises readers to “Go west, young man.”

1919

The year British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, after completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.

1930

The year the first World Cup tournament was held, in Uruguay.

1939

The year Frank Sinatra recorded his first song, “From the Bottom of My Heart” with the Harry James Band.

1942

The year American actor Harrison Ford was born.

1943

The year the greatest tank battle in history took place, ending with Russia’s defeat of Germany at Kursk. Almost 6,000 tanks were involved in the battle. Germany lost 2,900.

1944

The year Erno Rubik, inventor of Rubik’s Cube, was born.

1953

The year the first Shakespeare Festival was held in Stratford, Ontario. It opened with Alec Guinness in Richard III.

1954

The year Mexican painter Frida Kahlo died.

1960

The year Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party convention in Los Angeles.

1966

The year A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement) in New York City.

1973

The year Alexander Butterfield, deputy assistant to President Richard Nixon, reveals the existence of the “Nixon tapes” to the Senate committee investigating the Watergate break-in. On the same day one year later, the committee proposed sweeping reforms to prevent another Watergate-like scandal.

1985

“Live Aid” concerts held at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia raise more than $70 million for African famine relief.

Source:  onthisday.com