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What happened on 13 June?
7 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.
1911
Stravinsky's Petrushka
Ballet score for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
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
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.
1814
Strathnaver Clearances peak
Most violent clearances on the Sutherland estates; tenants burned out of their homes.
1971
Pentagon Papers published
The New York Times publishes a leaked secret history of US decision-making in Vietnam, fuelling antiwar sentiment.
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.
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.
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