July 13

Today in History
• 1522 - Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht
• 1568 - Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
• 1657 - Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
• 1772 - Captain James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas
• 1836 - U.S. patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels
• 1837 - Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
• 1851 - John F. Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton
• 1865 - P. T. Barnum's museum burns down


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Fool's Paradise Day
• Gruntled Workers Day
• International Rock Day
• National Barbershop Music Appreciation Day
• National Beans ‘N’ Franks Day
• National Delaware Day
• National French Fry Day
• Sovereignty Day of Montenegro

Birthdays
• 1396 - Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
• 1590 - Clement X, Emilio Altieri, Italy, Pope, 1670 - 1676
• 1608 - Ferdinand III, King of Hungary/Bohemia/German Emperor, 1637 - 1657
• 1776 - Caroline of Baden, Queen of Bavaria
• 1798 - Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Tsarina of Russia
• 1850 - Hipolito Irigoyen, president Argentina, 1916-22, 1928-30
• 1889 - Louise of Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden
• 1909 - Souphanouvong, President of Laos (1975-87)