A birthday on the globe
13 June on the globe: what happened in the world on this day, and who was born
For 13 June, the English Wikipedia lists 60 events and 288 births. 31 of the events stand at their places as rays of light; three more are dashed circles, where the sentence links only to a country or a sea. The taller the ray, the longer ago it happened. The people born that day come further down, as blue points.
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The Earth on 13 June
The picture on the globe was assembled by NASA from satellite photographs taken in June 2004: the snow, the ice and the green are those of the month.
On 13 June the Sun passes straight overhead at noon along the parallel of 23.2° north. In London, the day lasts about 16 hours 35 minutes.
Beyond 67° north the Sun no longer sets; beyond 67° south it no longer rises.
The line between day and night is tilted on the globe exactly as on this day of the year. On the dark side you can see the lights of towns.
Europe · Parc des Princes
1956
Spanish football club Real Madrid CF wins the inaugural European Cup, UEFA's premier club competition, by winning 4–3 against French club Stade de Reims in the final.
On the map: Parc des Princes.
Europe · Circuit de la Sarthe
1999
BMW win 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans.
On the map: Circuit de la Sarthe.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
Africa · Tangier
1325
Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years).
On the map: Tangier.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish and Chinese.
Asia · Nicomedia
313
The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.
On the map: Nicomedia.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
Asia · Pyongyang
2000
President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
On the map: Pyongyang.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish and Chinese.
North America · Great Falls
1805
Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
On the map: Great Falls.
North America · Supreme Court of the United States
1966
The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their Fifth Amendment rights before questioning them (colloquially known as "Mirandizing").
On the map: Supreme Court of the United States.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish and Chinese.
North America · University of Texas at Dallas
1969
Preston Smith, Governor of Texas, signed a law converting a research arm of Texas Instruments into the University of Texas at Dallas.
On the map: University of Texas at Dallas.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Chinese.
13 June
What the other Wikipedias remember#
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Spanish and were translated for this page.
From Wikipedia in Spanish · Isla de la Juventud
1494
Off the south coast of the island of Cuba, Christopher Columbus and his sailors arrive at the Isle of Youth.
On the map: Isla de la Juventud.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Spanish.
From Wikipedia in Spanish · Seville
1993
In Seville (Spain), Pope John Paul II closes the 45th International Eucharistic Congress.
On the map: Seville.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Spanish.
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Born on 13 June#
The English Wikipedia lists 288 births for this day. The blue points are the birthplaces of 60 of these people: those written about in the most Wikipedia editions, where Wikidata gives a place of birth.
Born on 13 June
1831
James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (died 1879)
Place of birth: Edinburgh.
Born on 13 June
1865
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1939)
Place of birth: Sandymount.
Born on 13 June
1888
Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (died 1935)
Place of birth: Lisbon.
Born on 13 June
1928
John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
Place of birth: Bluefield.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1773
Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (died 1829)
Place of birth: Milverton.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1943
Malcolm McDowell, English actor and producer
Place of birth: Horsforth.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1893
Dorothy L. Sayers, English author and poet (died 1957)
Place of birth: Oxford.
13 June
Number one in the charts that week
At the cinema
An animal recorded that day
The record can be seen in GBIF, which brings together wildlife records from around the world.
All your birthdays
The weather that day
Data: Met Office Hadley Centre (HadCET); NOAA (GHCN-Daily, Mauna Loa).
Above the Earth
Sources: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (launches); GFZ Potsdam (Kp index). Days are counted in Universal Time.
Football that day
International matches played that day:
Source: the “International football results” dataset kept by Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
Also that day
The earthquake’s page at the USGS
Source: the USGS catalogue. The day is counted in Universal Time (UTC).
In those days
Make a link for someone
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Below: 13 June through the years.
The whole globe of the day
Drag the globe to turn it. Touch a ray or a point to read what happened there.
Everything Wikipedia lists for 13 June
The list is the English Wikipedia’s, in its own wording, as it stood in October 2026. 26 events have no place on the map: the sentence links to no place with coordinates, only to places too wide to mark, or to several countries.
- 313
The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.
Asia · NicomediaWikipedia: Nicomedia - 1325
Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years).
Africa · TangierWikipedia: Ibn Battuta - 1381
In England, the Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, comes to a head, as rebels set fire to the Savoy Palace.
Britain & Ireland · Savoy PalaceWikipedia: Peasants' Revolt - 1514
Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.
Britain & Ireland · Woolwich DockyardWikipedia: Henry Grace à Dieu - 1525
Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Martin Luther - 1625
King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury.
Europe · NavarreWikipedia: Charles I of England - 1740
Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
North America · Siege of St. AugustineWikipedia: Siege of St. Augustine - 1774
Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
North America · Rhode IslandWikipedia: Rhode Island - 1777
American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
North America · Charleston, South CarolinaWikipedia: American Revolutionary War - 1805
Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
North America · Great FallsWikipedia: Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1850
The American League of Colored Laborers, the first African American labor union in the United States, is established in New York City.
no place on the mapWikipedia: American League of Colored Laborers - 1855
Twentieth opera of Giuseppe Verdi, Les vêpres siciliennes ("The Sicilian Vespers"), is premiered in Paris.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Giuseppe Verdi - 1878
Start of the Congress of Berlin in which the major powers of Europe revise the Treaty of San Stefano, signed on March 3 the same year, that Russia had imposed on a defeated Ottoman Empire.
Asia · YeşilköyWikipedia: Treaty of San Stefano - 1881
The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
no place on the mapWikipedia: USS Jeannette - 1886
A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
North America · Great Vancouver FireWikipedia: Great Vancouver Fire - 1893
Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Grover Cleveland - 1895
Émile Levassor wins the world's first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about fifteen miles per hour (24 km/h).
no place on the mapWikipedia: Émile Levassor - 1898
Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
North America · Dawson CityWikipedia: Yukon - 1907
The Workers' Federation of Chile declares a general strike in solidarity with a rail workers' strike.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Workers' Federation of Chile - 1916
World War I: The Battle of Mont Sorrel in the Ypres Salient came to an end as a Canadian assault led German forces to withdraw to their original lines.
Europe · Battle of Mont SorrelWikipedia: World War I - 1917
World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
no place on the mapWikipedia: World War I - 1927
Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade up 5th Avenue in New York City.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Charles Lindbergh - 1935
In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Boxing - 1944
World War II: German combat elements, reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
Europe · Battle of Bloody GulchWikipedia: Battle of Bloody Gulch - 1944
World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.
no place on the mapWikipedia: V-1 flying bomb - 1944
World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.
Europe · Battle of Villers-BocageWikipedia: Battle of Villers-Bocage - 1952
Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
Europe · Catalina affairWikipedia: Catalina affair - 1956
Spanish football club Real Madrid CF wins the inaugural European Cup, UEFA's premier club competition, by winning 4–3 against French club Stade de Reims in the final.
Europe · Parc des PrincesWikipedia: 1956 European Cup final - 1966
The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their Fifth Amendment rights before questioning them (colloquially known as "Mirandizing").
North America · Supreme Court of the United StatesWikipedia: Supreme Court of the United States - 1967
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
North America · Supreme Court of the United StatesWikipedia: Supreme Court of the United States - 1969
Preston Smith, Governor of Texas, signed a law converting a research arm of Texas Instruments into the University of Texas at Dallas.
North America · University of Texas at DallasWikipedia: Preston Smith - 1970
"The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
no place on the mapWikipedia: The Long and Winding Road - 1971
Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Vietnam War - 1973
In a game versus the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium, Los Angeles Dodgers teammates Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Bill Russell play together as an infield for the first time, going on to set the Major League Baseball record of staying together for 8+1⁄2 years.
North America · Veterans StadiumWikipedia: Philadelphia Phillies - 1977
Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Martin Luther King Jr. - 1981
At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Trooping the Colour - 1982
Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.
Latin America · Battle of Wireless RidgeWikipedia: Battle of Wireless Ridge - 1982
Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Fahd of Saudi Arabia - 1983
Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Pioneer 10 - 1990
First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
no place on the mapWikipedia: June 1990 Mineriad - 1994
A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
North America · Anchorage, AlaskaWikipedia: Anchorage, Alaska - 1996
Garuda Indonesia flight 865 crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, killing three people and injuring 170.
Asia · Garuda Indonesia Flight 865Wikipedia: Garuda Indonesia Flight 865 - 1996
The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Montana Freemen - 1997
A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
North America · Oklahoma City bombingWikipedia: Oklahoma City bombing - 1997
The Uphaar Cinema Fire takes place at Green Park, Delhi, resulting in the deaths of 59 people and seriously injuring 103 others.
Asia · Green Park, DelhiWikipedia: Uphaar Cinema fire - 1999
BMW win 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Europe · Circuit de la SartheWikipedia: 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans - 2000
Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Mehmet Ali Ağca - 2000
President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
Asia · PyongyangWikipedia: Kim Dae-jung - 2002
The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - 2005
The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of all charges for allegedly sexually abusing a child in 2003.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Trial of Michael Jackson - 2007
The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
Asia · 2007 al-Askari mosque bombingWikipedia: 2007 al-Askari mosque bombing - 2010
A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Hayabusa - 2011
A 6.0 Mw earthquake caused up to NZ$6 billion of additional damage to Christchurch, New Zealand, which was still recovering from an earthquake four months earlier.
Oceania · June 2011 Christchurch earthquakeWikipedia: June 2011 Christchurch earthquake - 2012
A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
Asia · BaghdadWikipedia: 13 June 2012 Iraq attacks - 2013
Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech prime minister Petr Nečas were arrested for corruption.
no place on the mapWikipedia: 2013 Czech political corruption scandal - 2018
Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Volkswagen emissions scandal - 2021
A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China, kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.
Asia · 2021 Shiyan pipeline explosionWikipedia: 2021 Shiyan pipeline explosion - 2023
At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria.
Africa · Kwara StateWikipedia: Kwara boat disaster - 2023
Three people are killed and another three injured in an early morning stabbing and van ramming attack in Nottingham, England.
Britain & Ireland · NottinghamWikipedia: 2023 Nottingham attacks - 2025
Israel initiates air strikes against Iran, initiating the Twelve Day War.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Twelve-Day War
What the other Wikipedias remember
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Spanish and were translated for this page.
- 1494
Off the south coast of the island of Cuba, Christopher Columbus and his sailors arrive at the Isle of Youth.
Latin America · Isla de la JuventudTranslated from the list on Wikipedia in SpanishWikipedia: Isla de la Juventud - 1993
In Seville (Spain), Pope John Paul II closes the 45th International Eucharistic Congress.
Who was born on 13 June
In order of how many Wikipedia editions have an article about each. The first 60 of 288 are shown.
- 1831
James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (died 1879)
EdinburghWikipedia: James Clerk Maxwell - 1865
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1939)
SandymountWikipedia: W. B. Yeats - 1944
Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Eumseong CountyWikipedia: Ban Ki-moon - 1888
Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (died 1935)
- 1928
John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
BluefieldWikipedia: John Forbes Nash Jr. - 1981
Chris Evans, American actor and producer
- 1773
Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (died 1829)
MilvertonWikipedia: Thomas Young - 1959
Klaus Iohannis, Romanian educator and politician, 5th President of Romania
- 823
Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (died 877)
FrankfurtWikipedia: Charles the Bald - 1911
Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)
San FranciscoWikipedia: Luis Walter Alvarez - 1943
Malcolm McDowell, English actor and producer
HorsforthWikipedia: Malcolm McDowell - 1966
Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
Saint PetersburgWikipedia: Grigori Perelman - 1959
Boyko Borissov, Bulgarian footballer and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
BankyaWikipedia: Boyko Borisov - 1986
Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer
SettsuWikipedia: Keisuke Honda - 839
Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (died 888)
NeudingenWikipedia: Charles the Fat - 1897
Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner and coach (died 1973)
- 1953
Tim Allen, American actor, comedian, and producer
DenverWikipedia: Tim Allen - 1986
Måns Zelmerlöw, Swedish singer
Lund Cathedral parishWikipedia: Måns Zelmerlöw - 1870
Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
SoigniesWikipedia: Jules Bordet - 1954
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria
Ogwashi-UkuWikipedia: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - 1951
Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
Göteborgs Kristine församlingWikipedia: Stellan Skarsgård - 1980
Florent Malouda, French footballer
CayenneWikipedia: Florent Malouda - 1986
Kat Dennings, American actress and comedian
Bryn MawrWikipedia: Kat Dennings - 1893
Dorothy L. Sayers, English author and poet (died 1957)
- 1946
Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1990
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor
High WycombeWikipedia: Aaron Taylor-Johnson - 1982
Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian runner
- 1892
Basil Rathbone, South African-born British-American actor (died 1967)
JohannesburgWikipedia: Basil Rathbone - 1931
Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist and academic
Washington, D.C.Wikipedia: Irvin D. Yalom - 1580
Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (died 1626)
- 1917
Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (died 2005)
AsunciónWikipedia: Augusto Roa Bastos - 1946
Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepalese politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal
AshigramWikipedia: Sher Bahadur Deuba - 1752
Frances Burney, English novelist and playwright (died 1840)
King's LynnWikipedia: Frances Burney - 1854
Charles Algernon Parsons, English engineer, founded C. A. Parsons and Company (died 1931)
- 40
Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (died 93)
Forum IuliiWikipedia: Gnaeus Julius Agricola - 1901
Tage Erlander, Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1985)
RansäterWikipedia: Tage Erlander - 1918
Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (died 1996)
ForakerWikipedia: Ben Johnson - 1915
Don Budge, American tennis player and coach (died 2000)
OaklandWikipedia: Don Budge - 1986
DJ Snake, French DJ and record producer
ParisWikipedia: DJ Snake - 1884
Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and academic (died 1978)
7th arrondissement of ParisWikipedia: Étienne Gilson - 1965
Infanta Cristina Federica of Spain
- 1969
Virginie Despentes, French author, screenwriter and director
- 1986
Ashley Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer and businesswoman
Sherman OaksWikipedia: Ashley Olsen - 1986
Mary-Kate Olsen, American child actress, fashion designer and businesswoman
Sherman OaksWikipedia: Mary-Kate Olsen - 1994
Deepika Kumari, Indian archer
- 1935
Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (died 2009)
BangkokWikipedia: Samak Sundaravej - 1980
Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player
Sant Feliu de LlobregatWikipedia: Juan Carlos Navarro - 1786
Winfield Scott, American general (died 1866)
Dinwiddie CountyWikipedia: Winfield Scott - 1955
Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
- 1962
Ally Sheedy, American actress and author
New York CityWikipedia: Ally Sheedy - 1367
Taejong of Joseon, third monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea (died 1422)
Hamhung Royal VillaWikipedia: Taejong of Joseon - 1790
José Antonio Páez, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (died 1873)
Captaincy General of VenezuelaWikipedia: José Antonio Páez - 1964
Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1989
Andreas Samaris, Greek footballer
- 1932
Bob McGrath, American singer and actor (died 2022)
OttawaWikipedia: Bob McGrath - 1991
Ryan Mason, English footballer
EnfieldWikipedia: Ryan Mason - 1763
José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (died 1838)
- 1864
Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and academic (died 1922)
- 1934
Leonard Kleinrock, American computer scientist and engineer
New York CityWikipedia: Leonard Kleinrock - 1949
Ann Druyan, American popular science writer
QueensWikipedia: Ann Druyan
What is celebrated on 13 June
- Christian feast day: Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church
- Christian feast day: Aquilina
- Christian feast day: Cetteus (Peregrinus)
- Christian feast day: Eulogius of Alexandria
- Christian feast day: Felicula
- Christian feast day: G. K. Chesterton (Episcopal Church (USA))
- Christian feast day: Gerard of Clairvaux
- Christian feast day: Blessed Marianna Biernacka
- Christian feast day: Psalmodius
- Christian feast day: Ragnebert (Rambert)
- Christian feast day: Blessed Thomas Woodhouse
- Christian feast day: Triphyllius
- Christian feast day: June 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Inventors' Day (Hungary)
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Each edition of this page uses the day’s list from Wikipedia in its own language: Romanian, English, Spanish, Chinese. The lists are written by volunteers and differ from one edition to the next; the text of each event is Wikipedia’s, with a link to the article. A row that appears twice in a list is shown once. The lists have not been checked event by event: they are Wikipedia’s, mistakes included.
For events before 1582, and for countries that moved to the Gregorian calendar later (Britain in 1752, Russia in 1918), the same day may be counted Old Style in one list and New Style in another.
The chapter “What the other Wikipedias remember” adds up to five events a day from the lists of the other three editions, only for years in which the English list has nothing on that day. They were translated for this page, passed the same filters as the tour, and are not counted among the events of the English list.
How an event gets onto the map
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Where the tour stops
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The tour of births names the people with articles in the most editions and leaves aside those whom the list or Wikidata describes as rulers, politicians, commanders, leaders of movements or criminals; they stay in the list.
The Earth and the Sun
The daytime images are NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation mosaics, one for each month of 2004; the night side is Black Marble 2016. The tilt of the line between day and night is computed for the day; the hour is chosen so that the place being read is in daylight. The latitude where the Sun stands overhead is the average of the four years of the leap cycle; in a given year it can differ by up to 0.4°.
The day you were born
The number ones come from the weekly lists on Wikipedia: Billboard for the United States (from 1940; the Hot 100 from August 1958), the UK Singles Chart (from November 1952), Los 40 Principales for Spain (from July 1966) and, for Romania, the Romanian Top 100 and Airplay 100 (2001–2021, with missing weeks). The page shows the chart of the week in which the day of birth falls, with its date; Billboard and the UK chart are dated at the end of their week. For Romania before 2001 and for China these sources have no weekly chart.
The films are those that reached cinemas in the United States up to ten days before or three days after that day (some of them in a few cinemas at first), from the English Wikipedia’s yearly lists (from 1968), in order of how many editions have an article about them. The events “in those days” are the ones on the neighbouring days’ lists that carry the year of birth, passed through the same filter as the tour.
The day of birth, year included
The Moon, the star sign and the constellation are worked out by the page itself, for noon Universal Time on the day. The lit part of the Moon is rounded and can differ by a few per cent from that at the hour of birth. The sign follows the usual zodiac of twelve equal parts starting at the March equinox; the constellation is the one the Sun actually stood in front of, by the borders set by the International Astronomical Union, and within a day of a border the page does not name it. When the Sun changes sign while it is that day anywhere on Earth, the page gives the moment of crossing, rounded to ten minutes and accurate to within about a quarter of an hour, and the clock time in a few cities, with the time zone and summer time of that year.
The year in the Chinese calendar is the one your device’s own calendar gives for the date, checked against the Hong Kong Observatory’s tables. “All your birthdays” uses the same sources as the rest of the chapter for the same day in every year since the birth: the temperature, well-known launches that took place on that very day, matches of the teams the edition follows, snow deeper than 10 cm and strong geomagnetic storms. The three things at the top and the four on the picture are chosen in a fixed order (the song, the animal, a full Moon, a well-known launch before an ordinary earthquake); on the picture you can change them.
When the link carries a year of birth, the page adds a few things about that exact day. The weather is the Met Office’s Central England temperature record and the readings from New York’s Central Park; the “usual high” is the average of the daily highs of 1961–1990 for that date, with two days either side. The carbon dioxide figure is the monthly mean at the Mauna Loa observatory, where measurements begin in March 1958.
The earthquake is the one with the largest magnitude in the USGS catalogue for that day, counted in Universal Time. Before the 1960s the catalogue has gaps even above magnitude 5.5, so in the older years many days have no earthquake. The page gives only the magnitude and the place: the country the epicentre falls in or, when the epicentre is at sea within 300 km of a coast, the nearest country; farther out, only the ocean.
The launches are those that reached orbit or left for the Moon and the planets, from Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT catalogue. If nothing left that day, the page shows the nearest launch within three days before or after, and says how many days away it was. The geomagnetic storm appears only when the Kp index reached at least 5 in one of the day’s eight three-hour intervals.
The animal comes from GBIF: an observation made by a person (the animal seen or heard, or its tracks), dated to that exact day, with coordinates and a CC0 or CC BY licence. Only a few hundred well-known species are searched (mammals, birds, turtles, butterflies); of those noted that day, mammals and species with articles in many Wikipedia editions come first; birds noted almost every day, and species used recently, wait their turn. Observations dated 1 January are left out, because records without a day are often filed there. An observation shows that the animal was recorded there, not how many animals there were.
The matches are those between national teams. Only matches of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada and Australia are shown, along with those at the big final tournaments. The picture to send is drawn in the page from the day’s globe and the facts above, and stays on your device until you send it.
Sources
- Events, births and holidays: the day’s page on Wikipedia, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates, places of birth and the number of editions: Wikidata (CC0).
- The Earth by day: NASA Blue Marble Next Generation. The Earth by night: NASA Black Marble 2016.
- Borders and regions: Natural Earth.
- World population and births per year: UN World Population Prospects 2024.
- Charts and films: Wikipedia’s lists for Billboard, the UK Singles Chart, Los 40 Principales, Romanian Top 100, Airplay 100 and American films by year (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Weather: Met Office Hadley Centre, HadCET (Open Government Licence) and NOAA GHCN-Daily, New York Central Park. Carbon dioxide: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Mauna Loa.
- Earthquakes: the USGS catalogue. Launches: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (CC BY). Kp index: GFZ Potsdam (CC BY 4.0). Matches: International football results, Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
- Animal observations: GBIF, with a link to each record; species names come from Wikidata.