History for July 13

History for July 13 - On-This-Day.com:
Edward J. Flanagan 1886 - Founder of Boys Town in Nebraska, Sam Hanks 1914, Jack Kemp 1935


Patrick Stewart 1940 - Actor, Harrison Ford 1942 - Actor ("Star Wars" movie series, "The Fugitive"), Erno Rubik 1944 - Creator of Rubik's Cube puzzle


1099 - The Crusaders launched their final assault on Muslims in Jerusalem.


1585 - A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, NC.


1643 - In England, the Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller, were defeated by royalist troops under Lord Wilmot in the Battle of Roundway Down.


1754 - At the beginning of the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French.


1787 - The U.S. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which established the rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.



1863 - Opponents of the Civil War draft began three days of rioting in New York City, which resulted in more than 1,000 casualties.


1978 - Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.


1984 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis was injured in a car accident and was left comatose. He came out of the coma in June of 2003.