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This day in history: June 13

1. 1970

   "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

2. 1971

   The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.

3. 1981

   English teenager Marcus Sarjeant fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony.

4. 1983

   Pioneer 10 passed the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.

5. 2007

   Insurgents carried out a second bombing at the al-Askari Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam.

6. 2011

   A 6.0 Mw earthquake caused up to NZ$6 billion of additional damage to Christchurch, New Zealand, which was still recovering from an earthquake four months earlier.

7. 2013

   Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech prime minister Petr Nečas were arrested for corruption.

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