📜 This Day in History

June 13

• 1514Henry Grace à Dieu, the largest warship ever built at the time, was launched from Woolwich Dockyard, England.
• 1850The American League of Colored Laborers, one of the first labor unions for African Americans, was established in New York City.
• 1935In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
• 1969Preston Smith, Governor of Texas, signed a law converting a research arm of Texas Instruments into the University of Texas at Dallas.
• 1983Pioneer 10 passed the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.
• 2013Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech prime minister Petr Nečas were arrested for corruption.

Born on this day

• 1831James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (died 1879)
• 1865W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1939)
• 1928John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
• 1944Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations