This Day In History
- Activism
- 2013 Outraged and saddened after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed Black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012, Oakland, California resident Alicia Garza posts a message on Facebook on July 13, 2013. Her post contains the phrase "Black lives matter," which soon becomes a rallying cry and a movement throughout the United States and around the world.
- Crime
- 1793 Jean-Paul Marat, one of the most outspoken leaders of the French Revolution, is stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, a Royalist sympathizer.
- 1955 Nightclub owner Ruth Ellis is convicted of murdering her boyfriend David Blakely on July 13, 1955. Ellis was later executed by hanging and became the last woman in Great Britain to be put to death.
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