On This Day for June 13 - Historic meeting between North and South Korean leaders, Christo is featured, and more

Created: 2020-06-13 10:02 Updated: 2020-06-13 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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June 13

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Christo

FEATURED EVENT

2000

Historic meeting between North and South Korean leaders

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2005: After a 14-week trial that became a media circus, American pop singer Michael Jackson was acquitted of child-molestation charges.

1982: Following the death of his half brother Khalid, Fahd became king of Saudi Arabia, overseeing a period of modernization in the country. [ Take our quiz about kings and emperors.]

1913: Hudson Stuck and Harry Karstens led a mountaineering party to the south peak, the true summit of Mount McKinley, becoming the first people to ascend North America's highest peak (6,194 metres [20,320 feet]). [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about mountains.]

1897: Finnish track athlete Paavo Nurmi—who dominated long-distance running in the 1920s, capturing nine gold medals in three Olympic Games (1920, 1924, 1928)—was born.

1886: Louis II—the eccentric monarch of Bavaria whose mania for extravagant building projects led, in part, to his nickname “Mad King Ludwig”—died in Starnberger See.

1865: Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer William Butler Yeats—one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century and the winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature—was born. [Take our quiz about authors and poets.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1944

Ban Ki-Moon
South Korean statesman and secretary-general of the United Nations

1928

John Nash
American mathematician

1831

James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist

1865

William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet

1928

Li Ka-shing
Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist