TODAY in HISTORY
Today is Tuesday, June 13, the 164th day of 2017. There are 201 days left in the year.
1514 Henry Grace a Dieu, at over 90,7185 kg the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated. 1525 Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns. 1740 Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine. 1774 Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves. 1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri river. 1881 The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack. 1886 A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia. 1898 Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital. 1917 WWI: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries. 1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City. 1944 WWII: German combat elements — reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division — launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan. 1952 Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter. 1967 US President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates solicitor-general Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the US Supreme Court. 1970 The Long and Winding Road
becomes The Beatles' last US number one song. 2000 President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in Pyongyang. 2002 The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. 2010 A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft
Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth. 2013 Czech investigative authorities start a raid against organised crime, affecting the top levels of Czech politics. 2015 A man opens fire at cops outside the police headquarters in Texas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found.