June 13 in history: • 1850 – The American League of Colored Laborers, one of the first labor unions for African Americans, was established in New York City. → go there • 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Mont Sorrel in the Ypres Salient came to an end as a Canadian assault led German forces to withdraw to their original lines. → go there • 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. → go there • 1981 – English teenager Marcus Sarjeant fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony. → go there • 2011 – A 6.0 Mw earthquake (aftermath pictured) caused up to NZ$6 billion of additional damage to Christchurch, New Zealand, which was still recovering from an earthquake four months earlier. → go there Died 976: Mansur I Wiki link Died 1550: Veronica Gambara Wiki link Died 1846: Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès Wiki link Born 1986: Thabo Bester Wiki link Pictured: Aftermath of the June 2011 Christchurch earthquake.