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This is a list of selected July 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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Harold Macmillan

Harold Macmillan
Jean-Paul Marat
Wallachian copy of Regulamentul Organic
New York Draft Riots
Modern Carabiniere officer
Scottish Church College
Nixon's tape recorder
Theresa May
1st Filipino Infantry soldiers

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Statehood Day in Montenegro (1878)	refimprove sections
1174 – William the Lion, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–1174, was captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.	refimprove
1772 – Under the command of explorer James Cook, HMS Resolution set sail from Plymouth, England, along with HMS Adventure.	needs more footnotes
1787 – The Northwest Ordinance was passed by the Congress of the Confederation, creating the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States.	refimprove section, missing information
1814 – The Carabinieri, the national military police of Italy, was founded by Victor Emmanuel I as the police force of the Kingdom of Sardinia.	refimprove section
1830 – Scottish Church College, the oldest continuously running Christian liberal arts and sciences college in India, was founded as the General Assembly's Institution.	cleanup required
1941 – The Communist Party of Yugoslavia initiated a general and popular uprising against Italian occupation forces in Montenegro that was suppressed within six weeks.	refimprove section
1977 – A power outage in New York City resulted in city-wide looting and other disorder.	refimprove
1977 – Ethiopia and Somalia went to war over the disputed Ogaden region in eastern Ethiopia.	unreferenced section
1985 – Live Aid rock music concerts, organised by singers Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia, were held at Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia.	refimprove section
2011 – Three coordinated bombings across Mumbai, India, killed 26 victims and injured 130 more.	lead too short
2016 – Having won a leadership election two days prior, Theresa May took office as prime minister of the United Kingdom.	expansion
John Wallop \|d\|1551	lead too short

Eligible

1260 – Livonian Crusade: Samogitian forces decisively defeated Teutonic knights and the Livonian Order at the Battle of Durbe.
1831 – Wallachian officials adopted Regulamentul Organic (cover shown), which engendered a period of unprecedented reforms that provided for the Westernization of the local society.
1863 – Four days of rioting began in New York City by opponents of new laws passed by the United States Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
1942 – World War II: The 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment was converted from a battalion to accommodate a larger number of volunteers spurred on by the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.
1962 – In an unprecedented action, British prime minister Harold Macmillan dismissed seven members of his Cabinet.
2003 – French DGSE personnel aborted an operation to rescue Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt from FARC guerrillas, later causing a political scandal when details were leaked to the press.
Born/died: | Aisha |d|678| Giulio d'Este |b|1478| Afonso, Prince of Portugal |d|1491| Margaret Murray |b|1863| Stan Coveleski |b|1889| Young Man Afraid of His Horses |d|1893| Kenneth Clark |b|1903| Harrison Ford |b|1942| Lucinda Ruh |b|1979| Liu Xiaobo |d|2017

Notes

Fort William College appears on July 10, so Scottish Church College should not appear in the same year

July 13

The Assassination of Marat by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry

1643 – English Civil War: Royalist forces defeated the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Roundway Down near Devizes, Wiltshire.
1793 – Charlotte Corday assassinated the French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat in his bathtub (depicted); his death became a pretext for the subsequent Reign of Terror.
1878 – At the conclusion of the Congress of Berlin, the great powers of Europe signed the Treaty of Berlin to redraw the map of the Balkans.
1973 – Watergate scandal: Under questioning by Senate investigators, White House deputy chief of staff Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence of a secret taping system in the Oval Office.
2008 – War in Afghanistan: Taliban guerrillas attacked U.S. troops at the Battle of Wanat in Nuristan Province.

Hubert Walter (d. 1205)
Nathan Bedford Forrest (b. 1821)
Ma Ying-jeou (b. 1950)

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