Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 13
July 13: Traditional date of the Bon Festival in Japan
- 1772 - HMS Resolution set sail from Plymouth, England, under the command of Captain James Cook.
- 1793 - Jean-Paul Marat (pictured), a leader in the French Revolution, was murdered in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
- 1878 - The major powers in Europe redrew the map of the Balkans in the Treaty of Berlin.
- 1923 - The Hollywoodland Sign was officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, California. The last four letters of the sign were removed in 1949.
- 1985 - Live Aid benefit concerts, organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia, were held in London and Philadelphia.