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What happened on 13 June?

12 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

  1. 1911 Stravinsky's Petrushka Ballet score for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
  2. 1381 The rebels take London London's own poor open the bridge and the gates, and the rebels burn the Savoy Palace of the hated John of Gaunt — pointedly destroying its treasures rather than looting them ('we
  3. 2000 First inter-Korean summit Kim Dae-jung flies to Pyongyang to meet Kim Jong-il in the first summit between the two Koreas, the high-water mark of the Sunshine Policy.
  4. 1814 Strathnaver Clearances peak Most violent clearances on the Sutherland estates; tenants burned out of their homes.
  5. 1971 Pentagon Papers published The New York Times publishes a leaked secret history of US decision-making in Vietnam, fuelling antiwar sentiment.
  6. 1878 Congress of Berlin Bismarck redraws the Balkans after Russia's victory over the Ottomans: Serbia, Romania and Montenegro become independent, Bulgaria is cut down, and Bosnia is handed to Austria-Hung
  7. 2009 Iranian Green Movement Mass protests against a disputed re-election of President Ahmadinejad, met with a violent crackdown; a precursor to the Arab Spring.
  8. 1525 Luther marries Katharina von Bora The former monk marries a former nun who escaped her convent in a herring cart; their household at Wittenberg becomes the model of the Protestant pastor's family.
  9. 2000 Fantastic, Vol. 2 (Slum Village album) J Dilla's off-kilter Detroit soul at full stretch.
  10. 1917 Pershing lands in France Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, Pershing arrives in France with a tiny staff and insists on building an independent American army rather than feeding his men into A
  11. 1769 Wedgwood opens the Etruria works Wedgwood's purpose-built pottery on the new canal — factory discipline, division of labour and showroom marketing decades before the textbook.
  12. 1665 Battle of Lowestoft Commanding the fleet as Lord High Admiral, James, Duke of York, wins England's greatest victory of the Second Anglo-Dutch War; the Dutch flagship blows up with its admiral aboard.
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