June 13 is Sewing Machine Day
Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
According to: foodimentary.com Today’s Food History:
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1789 Mrs. Alexander Hamilton served a new dessert treat for General George Washington. The highlight of the dinner party was ice cream! And all this time you thought Dolley Madison was responsible.
1817 Richard Lovell Edgeworth died. An Anglo-Irish inventor, among his many inventions and innovations were a turnip cutter, various improvements in agricultural machines, and a velocipede.
1893 African American inventor T.W. Stewart received a patent for a mop.
2010 Jimmy Dean died at age 81. A country music singer he also founded Jimmy Dean Meat Co. in 1969, well known for its Jimmy Dean Sausage brand.
National Lobster Day
Cupcake Lover’s Day
1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal. It is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.
June 13, 1525 – Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe began an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine on June 13, 1740.
Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River on June 13, 1805.
Birthday of Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), inventor of the steam turbine.
“The British engineer Charles Algernon Parsons thought up an excellent way of publicizing his newly devised steam turbine. He waited for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Julilee in 1897, at which time there was a stately review of the British Navy. Parson’s turbine-powered ship Turbinia”, going thirty-five knots with scarcely any vibration of noise, suddenly skimmed past the navy. It was an effective demonstration, and the navies of the world at once began bidding for turbine engines.”
From Asimov, Isaac. Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts. New York, Bell Publishing Company, 1981
On June 13, 1893, President Grover Cleveland noticed a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 he underwent a secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation was not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president’s death.
June 13, 1898 – Yukon Territory was formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
June 13, 1966 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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.