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Events on June 13

• 1525 Martin Luther and the former nun Katharina von Bora are married by Johannes Bugenhagen. The wedding celebration takes place two weeks later.
• 1794 Friedrich Schiller invites Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to contribute to the journal Die Horen and receives his agreement. This marks the beginning of their closer relationship and the friendship that endured until Schiller's death, as well as the period of Weimar Classicism.
• 1886 Ludwig II. drowns in Würmsee, the present-day Lake Starnberg. The exact circumstances of his death remain unclear.
• 1917 The Germans carry out the first major air raid on London with Gotha G.IV aircraft. In this attack, 162 people are killed and 432 are injured – more than in any other air raid on England during the entire First World War.
• 1944 During the Second World War, the first Fieseler Fi 103, designated as V1 for propaganda purposes, strikes London. The Germans launch the cruise missiles from the occupied Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.
• 1956 Real Madrid wins the first European Cup for domestic champions with a 4:3 victory over Stade Reims in the final at the Parc des Princes in Paris.
• 1974 The 10th FIFA World Cup opens in Germany. The opening match between Brazil and Yugoslavia ends 0:0.
• 1983 The American company Motorola introduces the world's first commercial mobile phone with the DynaTAC 8000X.
• 1990 The demolition of the Berlin Wall officially begins in Bernauer Straße.
• 2005 The pop star Michael Jackson is acquitted by the jury in Santa Monica on all ten charges of sexual harassment of a child.
• 2011 Alois Andritzki, Sorbian priest and martyr, is beatified in front of the Hofkirche in Dresden as the first Sorb and Saxon.
• 2018 Canada, Mexico, and the USA are announced by FIFA as the hosts of the 2026 FIFA World Cup on the eve of the opening match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. In the vote, the three-nation trio prevails over the candidate Morocco with 134:65 votes.

Born on June 13

• 1892 Basil Rathbone, American actor
• 1893 Dorothy L. Sayers, British writer and translator
• 1920 Walter Ernsting, German science fiction writer
• 1927 Klaus Höhne, German actor and voice actor
• 1931 Ingeborg Krabbe, German actress and cabaret artist
• 1940 Gojko Mitić, Serbian actor and director
• 1941 Esther Ofarim, Israeli actress and singer
• 1951 Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
• 1980 Sarah Connor, German singer
• 1990 Aaron Taylor-Johnson, British actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „13. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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