SATURDAY, 13th.
1771 Captain Cook, in the Endeavour, returned to Portsmouth, having sailed round the world.
1788 A dreadful storm took place in France, which desolated the country and destroyed the harvest for a space of fifty leagues.
1789 The first breaking out of the French Revolution; the mob of Paris forcibly entered the Hospital des Invalides, and possessed themselves of the arms deposited there.
1793 Marat, the coadjutor of Robespierre and Danton, and one of the worst monsters the Revolution produced, was assassinated by Charlotte Cordé.