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May 13 is the 133rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (134th in leap years). There are 232
days remaining.
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.
- 1607 - Jamestown,
Virginia is settled as an English colony.
- 1619 - Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague
after having been accused of treason.
- 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 Inn District).
- 1787 - Captain Arthur Phillip
leaves Portsmouth, England with
eleven ships full of convicts 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: Victoria of the United Kingdom
issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
- 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 Union victory.
- 1880 - In Menlo
Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his
electric railway.
- 1888 - Brazil abolishes slavery.
- 1912 - In the United Kingdom,
the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established.
- 1913 - Igor Sikorsky becomes
the first person to pilot a four engine aircraft.
- 1917 - Three peasant children claim to see the Blessed Virgin Mary above a holmoak tree in Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal.
- 1940 - World War II: Nazi Germany's conquest of France begins
as the German army crosses the Meuse
River. Churchill makes his "blood, tears, toil and sweat"
speech to the British House of Commons.
- 1940 - Queen Wilhelmina of the
Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Great Britain. Princess Juliana brings her children
to Canada for their safety.
- 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 was an
atrocity committed by Arab armed forces on May 13, 1948, the day before
the declaration of independence of the state of Israel.
- 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 - First ascent of Dhaulagiri,
7th highest mountain
- 1969 - Race riots in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the May 13 Incident
- 1981 - Mehmet Ali Agca
attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Square in Rome.
- 1985 - Philadelphia's mayor orders police to storm the radical group's MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters killing 11 MOVE
members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents in the resulting fire.
- 1996 - Severe thunderstorms and a
tornado in Bangladesh kills
600.
- 1998 - Following India's second round of
nuclear tests the United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on the nation.
- 2000 - 22 people die after an explosion in an artificial fire deposit in Enschede,
Netherlands. *2000 - 22 people die
after an explosion in an artificial fire deposit in Enschede, Netherlands.
- 2000 - At Fatima, Portugal, Pope John Paul II revealed the
Third Secret given by the
Blessed Virgin Mary to three Portuguese peasant children in
1917 was his own attempted assassination by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca in St Peters Square, Rome, on 13 May 1981. The apparitions at Fatima had commenced on 13 May 1917.
Births
- 1655 - Pope Innocent
XIII (d. 1724)
- 1699 - Marquis of
Pombal, Portuguese prime minister (d. 1782)
- 1717 - Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1780)
- 1792 - Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
- 1830 - Zebulon Baird
Vance, three-time governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)
- 1840 - Alphonse Daudet,
French novelist (d. 1897)
- 1842 - Arthur
Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan, composer (d. 1900)
- 1882 - Georges Braque,
painter (d. 1963)
- 1894 - Ásgeir
Ásgeirsson, 2nd president of Iceland (d. 1972)
- 1907 - Dame Daphne du
Maurier, author (d. 1989)
- 1913 - Gil Evans, jazz musician (d. 1988)
- 1914 - Joe Louis, boxer (d. 1981)
- 1923 - Bea Arthur, actress
- 1927 - Herbert Ross, director (d. 2001)
- 1931 - Jim Jones, cult leader (d. 1978)
- 1934 - Adolf Muschg, author
- 1937 - Roger Zelazny, science fiction author (d. 1995)
- 1937 - Roch Carrier, Canadian
novelist and National Librarian
- 1939 - Harvey Keitel,
actor
- 1941 - Ritchie Valens, singer
(d. 1959)
- 1941 - Senta Berger, actress
- 1944 - Armistead Maupin,
author
- 1945 - Magic Dick, musician ("J. Geils Band")
- 1947 - Stephen R.
Donaldson, author
- 1950 - Stevie Wonder, singer,
pianist, bassist, drummer
- 1961 - Dennis Rodman, basketball player, actor
- 1966 - Darius Rucker, Hootie & The Blowfish frontman
- 1969 - Brian A. Ask, writer, philanthropist
- 1977 - Samantha Morton,
actress
- 1978 - Mike Bibby, basketball player
- 1978 - Barry Zito, baseball
pitcher
- 1979 - Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
- 1981 - Sunny Leone, Penthouse Magazine's pet of the Year, 2003
Deaths
- 1619 - Johan
van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
- 1835 - John
Nash, architect (b. 1752)
- 1884 - Cyrus McCormick,
inventor (b. 1809)
- 1916 - Sholom Aleichem,
author (b. 1859)
- 1930 - Fridtjof Nansen,
explorer (b. 1861)
- 1945 - Tubby Hall, jazz musician (b. 1895)
- 1961 - Gary Cooper, actor (b.
1901)
- 1972 - Dan Blocker, actor
- 1975 - Bob Wills, country musician (b. 1905)
- 1988 - Willem Drees, Dutch prime-minister (b. 1886)
- 1999 - Gene Sarazen, golfer (b. 1902)
Holidays and Observances
May 12 - May 14 - April 13 - June 13 -- listing of all days
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