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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_13" title="July 13">July 13</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1260" title="1260">1260</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonian_Crusade" title="Livonian Crusade">Livonian Crusade</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samogitians" title="Samogitians">Samogitian</a> forces defeated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Order" title="Teutonic Order">Teutonic</a> knights and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonian_Order" title="Livonian Order">Livonian Order</a> at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Durbe" title="Battle of Durbe">Battle of Durbe</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1643" title="1643">1643</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalier" title="Cavalier">Royalist</a> forces defeated the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundhead" title="Roundhead">Parliamentarians</a> at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Roundway_Down" title="Battle of Roundway Down">Battle of Roundway Down</a></b> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devizes" title="Devizes">Devizes</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiltshire" title="Wiltshire">Wiltshire</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913" title="1913">1913</a> – While on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Balkan_War" title="Second Balkan War">a campaign</a> in Bulgaria, the Romanian Army suffered <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913_Romanian_Army_cholera_outbreak" title="1913 Romanian Army cholera outbreak">a cholera outbreak</a></b> that led to around 1,600 deaths.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973" title="1973">1973</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal" title="Watergate scandal">Watergate scandal</a>: Under questioning by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a> investigators, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> deputy chief of staff <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Butterfield" title="Alexander Butterfield">Alexander Butterfield</a> revealed the existence of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_White_House_tapes" title="Nixon White House tapes">a secret taping system</a></b> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oval_Office" title="Oval Office">Oval Office</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003" title="2003">2003</a> – French <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate-General_for_External_Security" title="Directorate-General for External Security">Directorate-General for External Security</a> personnel aborted <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ration_14_juillet" title="Opération 14 juillet">an operation</a></b> to rescue Colombian politician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Dngrid_Betancourt" title="Íngrid Betancourt">Íngrid Betancourt</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_Colombia" title="Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia">FARC</a> guerrillas, resulting in a political scandal.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Yuanheng" title="Wu Yuanheng">Wu Yuanheng</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 815); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataldo_Amodei" title="Cataldo Amodei">Cataldo Amodei</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1693); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba_C%E1%BB%A5t" title="Ba Cụt">Ba Cụt</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1956); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leda_Valladares" title="Leda Valladares">Leda Valladares</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2012)</p>