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.

• 1863 – Three 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.

• 1878 – The major powers in Europe redrew the map of the Balkans in the Treaty of Berlin.

• 1985 – Live Aid benefit concerts, organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia, were held at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.

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