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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_13" title="June 13">June 13</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1525" title="1525">1525</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Martin Luther</a> married <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_von_Bora" title="Katharina von Bora">Katharina von Bora</a></b>, beginning the practice of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_marriage" title="Clerical marriage">clerical marriage</a> in Protestantism.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1881" title="1881">1881</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_expedition" title="Jeannette expedition"><i>Jeannette</i> expedition</a></b> to reach the North Pole from the Pacific Ocean via the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait" title="Bering Strait">Bering Strait</a> came to an end when the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jeannette_(1878)" title="USS Jeannette (1878)">USS <i>Jeannette</i></a></b> was finally crushed and sank after having been trapped in ice for almost two years.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952" title="1952">1952</a> – Soviet aircraft <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalina_affair" title="Catalina affair">shot down a Swedish military plane</a></b> carrying out <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signals_intelligence" title="Signals intelligence">signals-intelligence</a> gathering operations, followed three days later by the shootdown of a second plane searching for the first one.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969" title="1969">1969</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Smith_(governor)" title="Preston Smith (governor)">Preston Smith</a>, Governor of Texas, signed a law converting a research arm of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments" title="Texas Instruments">Texas Instruments</a> into the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Dallas" title="University of Texas at Dallas">University of Texas at Dallas</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013" title="2013">2013</a> – Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech prime minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Ne%C4%8Das" title="Petr Nečas">Petr Nečas</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Czech_political_corruption_scandal" title="2013 Czech political corruption scandal">were arrested for corruption</a></b>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Middleton" title="Henry Middleton">Henry Middleton</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1784); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Marques_de_Sousa,_Count_of_Porto_Alegre" title="Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre">Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1804); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Algernon_Parsons" title="Charles Algernon Parsons">Charles Algernon Parsons</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1854); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Allison" title="Fran Allison">Fran Allison</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1989)</p>
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