Unix Timestamp: 1026518400
Saturday, July 13. 2002, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Thailand's Election Commission fails to endorse 142 prospective members of the House of Representatives including incoming Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and outgoing Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. //www.bangkokpost.com/news/election/246778/leading-names-in-limbo ("Bangkok Post")

A suicide bomber blows himself up next to a police patrol in Orūzgān Province of Afghanistan killing at least 18 people. //ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i8dGftYb0s4XWdUMRdIVs3vh1CKAD91SS0BG0 (AP via Google News)

The International Olympic Committee session in Moscow, Russia. Beijing wins the bid as the host city for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

The FBI arrests Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, for violating a provision of the DMCA.

Beijing wins the bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics.

The People\'s Republic of China and the Russian Federation sign the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation.

July 25 ndash Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO head Yasser Arafat meet at C David, but fail to reach an agreement.

The remains of Che Guevara are returned to Cuba for burial, alongside some of his comrades.

A Republican Sinn Féin bomb explodes outside of a hotel in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, disrupting a wedding reception and injuring 17 people.

Yitzhak Rabin becomes prime minister of Israel.

At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton accepts his party's presidential nomination on behalf of the forgotten middle class.

Ross Perot announces he is ending his presidential caign.

Terry Wallis, a nineteen-year old living in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas falls into a deep coma after a severe automobile accident. He would eventually awaken nineteen years later on June 13, 2003.

The New York City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours, resulting in looting and other disorder.

Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ethiopian-Somali War.

In what the press dubs the Night of the Long Knives, United Kingdom Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan dismisses 1/3 of his Cabinet.

The U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy is nominated for President of the United States at

Ruth Ellis (born 1926) is hanged for murder in London, becoming the last woman ever to be executed in the United Kingdom.

East Germany announces the formation of its National People's Army.

The attempted assassination of Palmiro Togliatti, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, incites numerous strikes all over the country.

The first London chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous is founded.

The Coptic and Ethiopian Churches reach an agreement leading to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate. Five bishops are immediately consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria, and the successor to Abuna Qerellos IV is granted the power to consecrate new bishops, who are empowered to elect a new Patriarch for their church.

WWII: Vilnius is occupied by USSR.

WWII: The invasion of Sicily begins with British landings at Augusta on the island's eastern side and American landings to the south.

WWII: German U-Boats sink 3 more merchant ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

WWII: Montenegro starts the second popular uprising in Europe against the Axis Powers, the first being the so-called February strike against deportation of Jews in Amsterdam and surroundings on February 25, 1941.

14 ndash Peak of July 1936 heat wave: The U.S. states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana all set new state records for high temperature. At Mio in northern Michigan, it soars to 113°F (45°C).

The first FIFA World Cup starts: Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for France against Mexico.

The Hollywood Sign is inaugurated in California (originally reading "Hollywoodland").

London County Council bars foreigners from council jobs.

The National Czechoslovak Committee is established.

Reports surface of a projected Serbian attack upon the Austro-Hungarian Legation at Belgrade.

United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (UIBPIP or BIRPI).

In Minnesota, storms result in the Sea Wing disaster on Lake Pepin killing 98.

The Treaty of Berlin makes Serbia, Montenegro and Romania completely independent.

The prosecution of Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman, for using ritualist practices begins.

The "Ems Dispatch" serves as a reason for a war between Prussia and France.

Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union, and the Confederate States of America is dissolved.

The British government admits the former Hudson\\'s Bay Company territory of Rupert\'s Land and the North-Western Territory to the Dominion of Canada.

The British government admits the former Hudson's Bay Company territory of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to the Dominion of Canada.

American Civil War ndash (New York Draft Riots): In New York City, opponents of conscription begin 3 days of violent rioting, which would later be regarded as the worst in the history of the United States.

American Civil War: The Battle of Corrick's Ford takes place in western Virginia.

The Tri-Kap fraternity is founded at Dartmouth College. It is the oldest local fraternity in the nation.

Queen Victoria moves from Kensington Palace into Buckingham Palace, the first reigning British monarch to make this, rather than St James's Palace, her London home.ref name=Pocket On This Day

The first numbered (after filing 9,957 unnumbered patents) is granted, to John Ruggles for improvements to railroad steam locomotive tires.

The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.

Greek War of Independence: Greeks defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae.

With the death of Henry Benedict Stuart, the last Stuart claimant to the throne of the United Kingdom, the movement of Jacobitism comes to an effective end.

Charlotte Corday kills Jean-Paul Marat in his bath.

The people begin to seize arms for the defense of Paris.

A hailstorm sweeps across France and the Dutch Republic with hailstones 'as big as quart bottles' that take 'three days to melt' immense damage is done.

The U.S. Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.

Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russian forces occupy the Crimea under Prince Vasily Dolgorukov.

The Treaty of Portsmouth brings an end to Queen Anne's War.

Following his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to Oliver Cromwell, English army leader John Lambert is ordered to resign his commissions.ref name=british-civil-wars timelines/

First English Civil War ndash Battle of Roundway Down: In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.

The municipality of Boac in Marinduque, Philippines is founded.

Karlovac is founded.

Akbar abolishes jizya.

Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.

John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje (now southwestern Slovenia).

Battle of Montlhéry: Troops of King Louis XI of France fight inconclusively against an army of the great nobles organized as the League of the Public Weal.

Yelu Longxu becomes the sixth emperor of the Liao Dynasty.

The Kalbids troops of the emir of Sicily defeat the imperial German army of Otto II near Crotone.

The Buyid ruler, \'Adud al-Dawla, establishes what was soon to become the most important hospital of Bagdad.

Adalbert becomes Bishop of Prague.