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1333 - ◆Ashikaga Yoshiakira escapes from Kamakura.
He is the son of the founder and first shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate, Ashikaga Takauji
Yoshiakira joins his father's army and later attacks the Kamakura shogunate. He becomes the 2nd shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate in 1358.
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1899 - ▼(birth) Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
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1914 - ★
Baron Pierre de Coubertin first presents the Olympic flag in Paris.
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1928 - ◇(birth) Che Guevara, Argentina-born Marxist Revolutionary.
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1946 - ◆(birth) Trump, US President.
(Japan's legal birthday) June 13, 1946
(birthday) June 14, 1946
(birthday Japan time) June 15. 1946
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1946 - ◆The Baruch Plan is proposed to the United Nations.
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1986 - ◆Nagashi Yamamoto retires as Commandant of the Japan Coast Guard.
He becomes President & C.E.O of the New Tokyo International Airport Authority on the same day.
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1986 - ◆A documentary video "Za shokkusu: sekai no mokugekisha" is released.
This documentary film includes decisive moment videos of accidents, disasters and sports which are collected from 83 countries. A performer who plunged to his death from the top of a 6-story building, the Running of the Bulls in the festival of San Fermin in Spain, an execution by firing squad in Nigeria, John F. Kennedy assassination and the Controlled Impact Demonstration (a joint project between NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration) are included, to name a few.
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2008 - ◇EU's Lisbon treaty is rejected by Irish voters (local time: 3:00 pm on June 13).
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2008 - ◇Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquake.
The day is the 3,000th day anniversary of the creation of JGSDF Northern Army Logistic Support Troop (March 28, 2000).
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2017 - ▲"Grenfell Tower fire". 72 people are killed (London).
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2017 - ▲House Majority Whip "Steve Scalise" of Louisiana is shot (US).
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July 15, 756 - ★(death) Yang Guifei, one of the Four Beauties of ancient China.
She is the beloved consort of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang during his later years.
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August 1, 1936 - ◆Hitler opens the 11th Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.
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August 1, 1936 - ◆Unit 731 is officially established (Japan).
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The number 731 was probably determined in commemoration of the Tokyo's winning of the 1940 Olympic bid. In fact the winning was announced the day before on July 31, 1936, (the seventh month the thirty-first day).
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July 12, 1946 - ◆Dry ice cloud seeding is discovered by Vince Schaefer.
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July 20, 1948 - ◇Public holidays in Japan are established by the Public Holiday Law.
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July 16, 1989 - ▼(death) Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor.
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August 1, 1993 - ◆Torrential rain reaches 405 mm in one day in Kyushu, Japan.
The death toll reaches 23 persons in the central parts of Kagoshima Prefecture.
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