Historical Events on June 13 (Part 2)

Baseball Record

2012 San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston Astros

2014 Stanley Cup Final, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA: LA Kings edge New York Rangers, 3-2 in double OT for a 4-1 series win; second Championship in LA franchise history
2015 Floods in Tbilisi, Georgia, kill 12 people and free animals from the city's zoo, including bears and hippos, to roam the city
2015 Philae, 1st spacecraft to land on a comet in European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission re-awakes after 7 months
2016 Some Democratic Party members of US House of Representatives protest 'moment of silence' as an inadequate response to mass shooting, and demand legislative action on gun control
2017 Otto Warmbier returns to the US in an unresponsive state after being held in Norther Korean jail for 17 months,

2017 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee, denies secretly meeting Russians

2017 Warriors win 2nd NBA title in 3 years over the Cavaliers (129-120)
2018 Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate - 200 billion tonnes a year, 3 trillion tonnes in 25 years, in report published in "Nature" journal
2018 FIFA Congress votes to award 2026 World Cup to joint bid by US, Canada & Mexico
2018 Raccoon climbs 23 story office building in St Paul, Minnesota, becoming an internet sensation
2018 The Spanish Football Association sacks coach Julen Lopetegui just 2 days out from first World Cup game after he agreed to manage Real Madrid
2018 Volkswagen fined €1 billion (£880m) by German prosecutors over diesel emissions scandal
2019 Archaeologists announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in lochs) far older than first thought, radiocarbon dated to 3640-3360 BC, older than Stonehenge
2019 Kenyan MP Rashid Kassim arrested for slapping female MP Fatuma Gedi, following a walk out of parliament by female MPs after claiming male MPs joked "its slapping day"
2019 NBA Finals: Toronto Raptors beat defending champion Golden State Warriors, 114-110 to win franchise's first Championship; last game at Oracle Arena, Oakland; MVP: Kawhi Leonard

2019 President Donald Trump announces Sarah Sanders will be leaving her position as White House Press Secretary

2019 Recently deposed Sudan President Omar al-Bashir is charged with corruption in Sudan

2019 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Iran is responsible for recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman

2021 French Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković wins his 19th Grand Slam singles title; beats Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece 6-7, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4

2021 G7 summits ends in Cornwall, England, with leaders promising one billion vaccine doses for poorer nations

2021 Israel's Knesset votes in a new coalition government with Naftali Bennett as Prime Minister, ousting Benjamin Netanyahu after a record 12 years

2021 US President Joe Biden has tea with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle

2022 A Google engineer claims one of its AI systems, Lamda, might have a sentient mind, causing the company to place him on leave [1]
2022 MIT researchers propose creating raft of "space bubbles" floating above the earth to reflect the sun's rays and help fight climate change [1]
2022 New York stock exchange enters bear market territory (defined as falling 20% from a recent high - Jan 3) after the S&P falls 3.9%, amid fears of high inflation and a recession [1]

2022 The Rolling Stones cancel concert in Amsterdam due to singer Mick Jagger testing positive for COVID-19

2022 World's largest freshwater fish, a stingray 3.98m x 2.2m caught in the Mekong river, Cambodia (tagged and released) [1]
2023 Former US President Donald Trump and his aide Walt Nauta plead not guilty to federal charges of intentionally holding on to classified documents at a court in Miami [1]
2023 Stanley Cup Final, T-Mobile Arena, LV: Vegas Golden Knights rout Florida Panthers 9-3 to clinch 4-1 series win; franchise's first title in only 6th year in the NHL; MVP: Jonathan Marchessault (VGK forward)