May 13
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May 13
is the 134th day of the year (135th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of the year.
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[edit] Events
- 1497 - Pope Alexander VI
excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
- 1568 - Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
- 1619 - Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
- 1648 - Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi was completed.
- 1779 - War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from them (the Innviertel).
- 1787 - Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts (First Fleet) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
- 1830 - Ecuador gains its independence.
- 1846 - Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
- 1848 - First performance of Finland's national anthem.
- 1861 - American Civil War: Queen Victoria of Britain issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
- 1861 - Great Comet of 1861 discovered in Australia.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
- 1865 - American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
- 1880 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
- 1888 - With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
- 1909 - The first Giro d'Italia took place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the winner.
- 1912 - In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) was established.
- 1913 - Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
- 1917 - Three peasant children report seeing the Blessed Virgin Mary near Fátima, Portugal.[1]
- 1917 - The Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, is consecrated Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV.
- 1929 - The first suicidal person jumps off of the Statue of Liberty.
- 1939 - The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later became WDRC-FM.
- 1940 - World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
- 1940 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
- 1941 - World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
- 1943 - World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
- 1948 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
- 1952 - The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, held its first sitting.
- 1954 - Anti-National Service Riots, a riot in Singapore by Chinese Middle School students.
- 1958 - During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
- 1958 - Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1958 - Velcro's trade mark is registered.
- 1960 - Hundreds of UC Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Un-American Activities Committee. 31 students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
- 1967 - Dr. Zakir Hussain became 3rd President of India. He was the first Muslim President of Indian Union. He held this position till August 24, 1969.
- 1969 - Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the May 13 Incident.
- 1972 - Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka. Blocked exits and nonfunctional elevators cause 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
- 1976 - The final game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the New York Nets defeat the Denver Nuggets 112-106 in New York to win the 1976 ABA Championship.
- 1980 - An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
- 1981 - Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope was rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery, and managed to survive.
- 1985 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania police storm MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
- 1989 - Large groups of students occupied Tiananmen Square and began a hunger strike. See Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
- 1996 - Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
- 1998 - India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on May 11. United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
- 2000 - Lara Dutta (21), who said beauty pageants give women a platform to voice our choices and opinions is named Miss Universe 2000 in the Cyprus capital Nicosia.
- 2000 - In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
- 2001 - Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms coalition wins the Italian general elections.
- 2005 - Malcolm Glazer completes a hostile takeover of Manchester United for $1.4 billion.
- 2005 - The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
- 2006 - 2006 São Paulo violence: A major rebellion occurs in several prisons of the Brazilian state.
- 2007 - Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins.
- 2007 - Republic Protests in Turkey
[edit] Births
- 1024 - Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
- 1254 -Maria of Brabant, queen of France (d. 1321)
- 1588 - Ole Worm, Danish physician (d. 1654)
- 1638 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712)
- 1655 - Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
- 1699 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
- 1712 - Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (d. 1772)
- 1717 - Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1780)
- 1730 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1782)
- 1742 - Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
- 1753 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)
- 1792 - Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
- 1794 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
- 1795 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
- 1822 - Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (d. 1902)
- 1830 - Zebulon Baird Vance, three-time governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)
- 1840 - Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (d. 1897)
- 1842 - Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)
- 1857 - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1932)
- 1882 - Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
- 1883 - Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (d. 1962)
- 1894 - Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972)
- 1898 - Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (d. 2007)
- 1907 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)
- 1911 - Robert Middleton, American film and television actor (d. 1977)
- 1912 - Gil Evans, Canadian musician (d. 1988)
- 1912 - Judah Nadich, American rabbi (d. 2007)
- 1913 - William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian president (d. 1980)
- 1913 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985)
- 1914 - Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
- 1918 - T. Balasaraswati, Bharatanatyam dancer (d.1984)
- 1920 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
- 1922 - Michael Ainsworth, British cricketer (d. 1978)
- 1923 - Beatrice Arthur, American actress
- 1924 - Harry Schwarz, South African MP and Ambassador to the US
- 1926 - Wallace Breem, British author
- 1927 - Herbert Ross, American director (d. 2001)
- 1928 - Édouard Molinaro