Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

On April 13, 2007 ( Friday the 13th ), a group of students from The California Tech, Caltech's campus newspaper, arrived and distributed fake copies of The Tech, MIT's campus newspaper, while prospective students were visiting for their Campus Preview Weekend.

On the left of the altar, towards the Eastern Orthodox chapel, there is a statue of Mary, believed to be working wonders ( the 13th Station of the Cross, where Jesus ' body was removed from the cross and given to his family ).

On the state legislative level, Ellensburg is in the 13th district.

On the steamboat trip upriver, he became ill ; on the 13th he left Brierfield to return to New Orleans.

On 14 September 2000, he was introduced there as the 126th " rühmlich ausgezeichneter Teutscher " and 13th composer among them, with a bust by sculptor Milan Knobloch.

On Friday, October 13, 1307 ( a date sometimes spuriously linked with the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition ) Philip ordered de Molay and scores of other French Templars to be simultaneously arrested.

On the 13th of January 2012, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the US will exchange ambassadors with Burma, after a landmark Burmese political prisoner amnesty .< ref > British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC )– US to exchange ambassadors with Burma, < http :// www. bbc. co. uk / news / world-asia-16554415 >.

* June 12 – Holocaust: On her 13th birthday, Anne Frank makes the first entry in her new diary.

On November the 13th of 2010, it merged with Europe Écologie to become Europe Ecology – The Greens.

On May 5, 1978, Rose became the 13th player in major league history to collect his 3, 000th career hit, with a single off Montreal Expos pitcher Steve Rogers.

On 8 November 1901, for example, the 13th Hussars captured 14 burghers near Mahamba.

On December 14, 1818, the French privateer Hipólito Bouchard, sailing under the flag of the " United Provinces of Rio de la Plata " ( Argentina ), brought his ships La Argentina and Santa Rosa to within sight of the Mission ; aware that Bouchard ( today known as " California's only pirate ") had recently conducted raids on the settlements at Monterey and Santa Barbara, Comandante Ruíz had sent forth a party of thirty men ( under the leadership of a young Spanish lieutenant named Santiago Argüello ) to protect the Mission at first news of the approach on the 13th.

On the 13th of September 2009 the contractors of the Dartford River Crossing ( Le Crossing ) changed to Connect Plus M25, which again is made up of a consortium of Atkins, Egis, Skanska, and Balfour Beatty.

:: On June 13th, 2012, Ortega was officially sworn in as the city's mayor replacing Dr. Michael Gomez.

On March 9, 1916, on the orders of Mexican revolutionary leader Francisco " Pancho " Villa, ( Colonel ) Francisco Beltrán, ( Colonel ) Candelario Cervantes, ( General ) Nicolás Fernández, ( General ) Pablo López and others led five hundred men in an attack against the town, which was garrisoned by a detachment of the U. S. 13th Cavalry Regiment.

On December 13th, 2011, Eau Claire, WI became The Kubb Capital of North America.

On 8 August 2012, Brazil ranked 13th in the FIFA World Ranking, making it their worst rank ever.

On 13 July 2007, Friday the 13th was screened for the first time on Blairstown's Main Street in the very theater which appears shortly after the opening credits.

On 3 February 2009, Paramount Home Entertainment released Friday the 13th on an unrated uncut home video version for the first time in the United States ( all previous VHS and DVD releases were the rated theatrical version ).

On rue Barre-St-Brice are two of the oldest private houses in Europe, dating from between 1175 and 1200 and built in the Romanesque style, while the rue des Jésuites includes a Gothic house from the 13th century.

On the left hand end of the right hand wall of the nave of the primitive basilica, rebuilt in 1933 on ancient remains, arches to end the middle of the nave of the actual church, built in the 13th century, are visible, along with the outside of the apse of the Chapel of the Relics ; whole and fragmentary collected sarcophagi ( mostly of 4th century date ) were found in excavations.

On the site where the Indoor Markets are now located, archaeologists discovered further leather tanning pits, these dating from the 13th century.

On the 13th day is Dhanteras, the days Diwali starts in the rest of India.

On the 13th Vergniaud boldly exposed the conspiracy in the Convention.

On June 6, 1958, General Motors submitted its objections to the Government's proposal.

Singing On The Mountain in Linville, North Carolina, on June 25.

On June 14, 1900 the Manchester Journal reported that an electrical engineer was installing an electric light plant for Edward S. Isham at `` Ormsby Hill ''.

On June 24 more than 400 families started the three-month trip across the plains to the Mississippi.

On June 19, 1862, endorsed by Lincoln, Congress passed an act banning slavery on all federal territory.

On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee tabled a resolution before the Continental Congress declaring the colonies independent ; at the same time he also urged Congress to resolve “ to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances ” and to prepare a plan of confederation for the newly-independent states.

On June 12, 1776, a day after appointing a committee to prepare a draft of the Declaration of Independence, the Second Continental Congress resolved to appoint a committee of 13 to prepare a draft of a constitution for a union of the states.

On the Arctic Circle those events occur, in principle, exactly once per year, at the June and December solstices, respectively.

< li > On June 15, 2012, a working Apple I was sold at auction by Sotheby's for a record $ 374, 500, more than double the expected price .</ li >

On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.

On June 10, 38, Drusilla died, possibly of a fever, rampant in Rome at the time.

On 19 June, the weak and ailing tsarevich received twenty-five strokes with the knout, and then, on the 24th, he was subject to fifteen more.

On 26 June, Alexei died in the Petropavlovskaya fortress in Saint Petersburg, two days after the senate had condemned him to death for conspiring rebellion against his father, and for hoping for the cooperation of the common people and the armed intervention of his brother-in-law, the emperor.

On 25 June 1870, he was recalled to Paris, where his mother abdicated in his favour, in the presence of a number of Spanish nobles who had tied their fortunes to that of the exiled queen.

On 6 June 1224 Andrew made a peace with Duke Leopold VI of Austria.

On June 21, 2004, Space Ship One became the first privately funded aircraft to make a spaceflight, opening the possibility of an aviation market capable of leaving the Earth's atmosphere.

On 25 June 2009, the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, Abune Paulos, said he would announce to the world the next day the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, which he said had been kept safe and secure in a church in Axum, Ethiopia.

On June 3, 2009, it was reported that Aon had signed a four year shirt sponsorship deal with English football giant Manchester United.

On June 1, 2010, Aon replaced troubled American insurance company AIG as the principal sponsor of the club.

On June 3, 1864 Abersychan was constituted a local government district, governed by a local board.

On June 7, 1809, Shuja Shah signed a treaty with the British, which included a clause stating that he would oppose the passage of foreign troops through his territories.

On June 8 he arrived in Miami, Florida with fellow hijacker Wail al-Shehri.

On June 25, Jarrah took Haznawi to Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale on advice of his landlord Charles Lisa.

On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.

On 16 June 1913, just a few months after the end of the first war, the Bulgarian government ordered an attack on Serbian and Greek positions in Macedonia, without declaring war.