On This Day | 13 June

On this day:

1950: South Africa implements the Group Areas Act, a major pillar of apartheid

1983: Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central solar system

Born on this day:

1865: W. B. Yeats, Irish poet, Nobel Prize laureate

Gone on this day:

1927: Henry CK “Clan” Petty-Fitzmaurice, Governor of India (1888-94), dies at 82