Public Holidays on July 13

• 🌍 Battle of the Boyne (United Kingdom)

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On This Day in History — July 13

• 2016 — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May.
• 2013 — Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan.
• 2011 — Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.
• 2011 — United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of United Nations.
• 2008 — Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of...
• 2003 — French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.

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Notable Births on July 13

• 1995 — Cody Bellinger, American baseball player
• 1993 — Daniel Bentley, English footballer
• 1992 — Elise Matthysen, Belgian swimmer
• 1990 — Kieran Foran, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 — Eduardo Salvio, Argentinian footballer
• 1989 — Justin Chua, Filipino basketball player

Notable Deaths on July 13

• 2017 — Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic, human rights activist (b. 1955)
• 2015 — Philipp Mißfelder, German historian and politician (b. 1979)
• 2015 — Martin Litchfield West, English scholar, author, and academic (b. 1927)
• 2014 — Thomas Berger, American author and playwright (b. 1924)
• 2014 — Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist, author, and academic (b. 1919)
• 2014 — Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)

Public Holidays on July 14

• 🌍 Bastille Day (France)
• 🌍 Fête nationale (France)

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On This Day in History — July 14

• 2016 — A terrorist vehicular attack in Nice, France kills 86 civilians and injures over 400 others.
• 2015 — NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
• 2002 — French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
• 1992 — 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.
• 1976 — Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.
• 1969 — Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer match against El Salvador, riots break out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers.

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Notable Births on July 14

• 1995 — Kim Hyo-joo, South Korean golfer
• 1991 — Shabazz Napier, American basketball player
• 1989 — Sakari Mattila, Finnish footballer
• 1989 — Rolando McClain, American football player
• 1989 — Cyril Rioli, Australian rules footballer
• 1988 — Conor McGregor, Irish mixed martial artist

Notable Deaths on July 14

• 2017 — Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (b. 1977)
• 2016 — Helena Benitez, Filipino politician, educator and environmentalist (b. 1914)
• 2015 — Willer Bordon, Italian businessman, academic, and politician, Italian Minister of the Environment (b. 1949)
• 2015 — Wolf Gremm, German director and producer (b. 1942)
• 2015 — Masao Horiba, Japanese businessman, founded Horiba (b. 1924)
• 2014 — Alice Coachman, American high jumper (b. 1923)