Almanac for July 13: https://ko-fi.com/Post/July-13-I-Married-My-Best-Friend-E1E11HQD8B
Happy anniversary, Tit Elingtin!
Bummer July 13
July 13, 1793: 24-year-old royalist Charlotte Corday assassinates radical journalist Jean-Paul Marat in his bathtub with a knife she has concealed in her corset.
July 13, 1990: An earthquake and avalanche at Lenin Peak in the Trans-Alay mountains on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (still part of the USSR in 1990) kill 43 mountaineers.
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