On This Day for June 13 - Historic meeting between North and South Korean leaders, Christo is featured, and more

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view. June 13 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Christo READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 2000 Historic meeting between North and South Korean leaders READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY 2005: After a 14-week trial that became a media circus, American pop singer Michael Jackson was acquitted of child-molestation charges. 1982: Following the death of his half brother Khalid, Fahd became king of Saudi Arabia, overseeing a period of modernization in the country. [ Take our quiz about kings and emperors.] 1913: Hudson Stuck and Harry Karstens led a mountaineering party to the south peak, the true summit of Mount McKinley, becoming the first people to ascend North America's highest peak (6,194 metres [20,320 feet]). [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about mountains.] 1897: Finnish track athlete Paavo Nurmi—who dominated long-distance running in the 1920s, capturing nine gold medals in three Olympic Games (1920, 1924, 1928)—was born. [ How much do you know about track and field?] 1886: Louis II—the eccentric monarch of Bavaria whose mania for extravagant building projects led, in part, to his nickname "Mad King Ludwig"—died in Starnberger See. 1865: Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer William Butler Yeats—one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century and the winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature—was born. [Take our quiz about authors and poets.] SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY 1944 Ban Ki-Moon South Korean statesman and secretary-general of the United Nations 1928 John Nash American mathematician 1831 James Clerk Maxwell Scottish mathematician and physicist 1865 William Butler Yeats Irish author and poet 1928 Li Ka-shing Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist 1892 Basil Rathbone British actor SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY   Advertisement   FOLLOW: To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2021 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Privacy Policy • Help