📜 This Day in History

July 13

• 1260Livonian Crusade: Samogitian forces defeated Teutonic knights and the Livonian Order at the Battle of Durbe.
• 1794The Battle of Trippstadt between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria began.
• 1913While on a campaign in Bulgaria, the Romanian Army suffered a cholera outbreak that led to around 1,600 deaths.
• 1943World War II: Operation Fustian, an Allied operation to capture the Primosole Bridge in Sicily, was launched.
• 2003French Directorate General for External Security personnel aborted an operation to rescue Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt from FARC guerrillas, resulting in a political scandal.
• 2020After a five day search, the body of American actress and singer Naya Rivera was recovered from Lake Piru, confirming her death.

Born on this day

• 1851Marie Andrieu, French anarchist, cartomancer and spiritualist (died 1911)
• 1934Wole Soyinka, Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942Harrison Ford, American actor and producer
• 2007Lamine Yamal, Spanish footballer