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May 13
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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 excommunication excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
*
1568 -
Battle of Langside: the forces of
Mary I of Scotland Mary Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of
Scotland 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.
*
1779 -
War of Bavarian Succession:
Russian and
France 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 (
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
Maamme national anthem.
*
1861 -
American Civil War:
Victoria of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria of Britain issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the
Confederate States of America 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
United States Union General
William Tecumseh Sherman Sherman fighting toward
Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta.
*
1865 - American Civil War:
Battle of Palmito Ranch – In far south
Texas, more than a month after
Confederate States of America Confederate General
Robert E. Lee 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 Ã?urea'' ("Golden Law"),
Brazil abolishes
slavery.
*
1909 - The first
Giro d'Italia took place in
Milan.
Italy Italian cycling 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
Our Lady of Fatima Blessed Virgin Mary near
Fatima,
Portugal.
[John De Marchi (1952) ''The True Story of Fatima'' Catechetical Guild Entertainment Society, St. Paul Minnesota, pp47-59]
*1917 - The Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future
Pope Pius XII, is consecrated Archbishop by
Pope Benedict XV[L'Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, 12/19 August 1998, page 9]
*
1940 -
World War II:
Nazi Germany Germany's conquest of
France begins as the
Germany German army crosses the
Meuse River.
Winston Churchill Churchill makes his "blood, tears, toil and sweat" speech to the
British House of Commons House of Commons.
*1940 - Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the
Nazism Nazi invasion in the
Netherlands to
United Kingdom Britain.
Princess Juliana of the Netherlands Princess Juliana takes her children to
Canada for their safety.
*
1943 - World War II:
Germany German Afrika Korps and
Italy Italian troops in
North Africa surrender to
Allies 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.
*
1950 - First All-time
Formula One Grand Prix. It is held at
Silverstone Circuit,
England
*
1958 - During a visit to
Caracas,
Venezuela,
Vice President of the United States Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by
Anti-Americanism anti-American demonstrators.
*1958 -
Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of
France.
*1958 -
Velcro's trade mark is registered.
*
1960 - First ascent of
Dhaulagiri, world's seventh-highest mountain.
*
1969 - Race riots in
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, later known as the
May 13 Incident 13 May Incident.
*
1976 - The
New Jersey Nets New York Nets defeat the
Denver Nuggets and win the
American Basketball Association championship, 112-106, in the final ABA game ever played.
*
1981 -
Mehmet Ali AÄŸca attempts to
assassination assassinate Pope John Paul II in
St. Peter's Square in
Rome.
*
1985 - The mayor of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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.
*
1995 - In
Dublin,
Ireland,
Secret Garden win the fortieth
Eurovision Song Contest for
Norway performing "Nocturne".
*
1996 - Severe
thunderstorms and a
tornado in
Bangladesh kill 600 people.
*
1998 - Following
India's second round of
nuclear tests the
United States and
Japan impose
economic sanctions.
*
2000 - In
Stockholm,
Sweden, the
Olsen Brothers win the forty-fifth
Eurovision Song Contest for
Denmark singing "Fly On The Wings of Love".
*2000 - In
Enschede, the
Netherlands, a
vuurwerkramp fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
*
2005 - The final episode of ''
Star Trek: Enterprise'' airs in the United States, bringing to a close an 18-year uninterrupted television franchise, Enterprise being one of two series created by Gene Roddenberry ending on the same day.
*2005 - The final episode of ''
Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda'' airs in the United States, Andromeda being one of two series created by Gene Roddenberry ending on the same day.
*2005 - The
United States Department of Defense issues a list of bases to be closed as part of the
Base Realignment and Closure process (
Base Realignment and Closure, 2005 BRAC 2005).
*2005 - The
May 2005 unrest in Uzbekistan Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
Births
*
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)
*
1753 -
Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d.
1823)
*
1792 -
Pope Pius IX (d.
1878)
*
1795 -
Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d.
1875)
*
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)
*
1894 -
Ã?sgeir Ã?sgeirsson, 2nd
President of Iceland (d.
1972)
*
1907 - Dame
Daphne du Maurier, English author (d.
1989)
*
1913 -
Gil Evans, Canadian musician (d.
1988)
*1913 -
William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian president (d.
1980)
*
1914 -
Joe Louis, American boxer (d.
1981)
*
1923 -
Beatrice Arthur, American actress
*
1926 -
Wallace Breem, British author
*
1927 -
Herbert Ross, American director (d.
2001)
*
1931 -
Jim Jones, American cult leader (d.
1978)
*
1934 -
Leon Wagner, baseball player (d.
2004)
*
1937 -
Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist
*
1937 -
Trevor Baylis, English inventor of the wind-up radio
*
1937 -
Roger Zelazny, American author (d.
1995)
*
1939 -
Harvey Keitel, American actor
*
1940 -
Bruce Chatwin, British writer (d.
1989)
*
1941 -
Senta Berger, Austrian actress
*1941 -
Ritchie Valens, American singer (d.
1959)
*
1944 -
Armistead Maupin, American author
*
1947 -
Stephen R. Donaldson, American author
*
1950 -
Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician
*
1951 -
Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
*
1954 -
Johnny Logan (singer) Johnny Logan, Irish singer and songwriter
*
1956 -
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation
*
1957 -
Alan Ball (screenwriter) Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, producer
*
1961 -
Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
*
1962 -
Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d.
2003)
*
1964 -
Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor
*
1966 -
Darius Rucker, American singer (
Hootie & the Blowfish Hootie & The Blowfish)
*
1967 -
Chuck Schuldiner, American singer (
Death (band) Death) (d.
2001)
*
1969 -
André Schmechta, German musician,
X Marks the Pedwalk.
*
1976 -
Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer
*
1977 -
Samantha Morton, English actress
*
1978 -
Mike Bibby, American basketball player
*1978 -
Barry Zito, baseball player
*
1979 -
Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Wermelandia Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
*
1981 -
Sunny Leone, Canadian model
*
1981 -
James Yun Jimmy Yang, American professional wrestler
*
1986 -
Robert Pattinson, English Actor
*
1988 -
Casey Donovan (singer) Casey Donovan,
Australian singer
Deaths
*
1176 -
Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b.
1119)
*
1312 -
Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b.
1263)
*
1573 -
Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b.
1521)
*
1619 -
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b.
1547)
*
1704 -
Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b.
1632)
*
1742 -
Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b.
1719)
*
1807 -
Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b.
1721)
*
1832 -
Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b.
1769)
*
1835 -
John Nash (architect) John Nash, English architect (b.
1752)
*
1871 -
Daniel Auber, French composer (b.
1782)
*
1884 -
Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b.
1809)
*
1885 -
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German phsyician (b.
1809)
*
1916 -
Sholom Aleichem, Russian author (b.
1859)
*
1926 -
Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b.
1857)
*
1930 -
Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1861)
*
1937 -
Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin
*
1938 -
Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1861)
*
1945 -
Tubby Hall, American musician (b.
1895)
*
1961 -
Gary Cooper, American actor (b.
1901)
*
1962 -
Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (b.
1893)
*
1972 -
Dan Blocker, American actor (b.
1928)
*
1974 -
Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer, politician, and diplomat (b.
1902)
*
1975 -
Bob Wills, American musician (b.
1905)
*
1985 -
Leatrice Joy, American actress (b.
1893)
*
1988 -
Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b.
1929)
*
1992 -
F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b.
1909)
*
1999 -
Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b.
1902)
*
2000 -
Paul Bartel, American actor,writer and director (b.
1938)
*
2001 -
R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b.
1906)
*2001 -
Jason Miller (actor) Jason Miller, American actor (b.
1939)
*
2005 -
George Dantzig, American mathematician (b.
1914)
Holidays and observances
* Commemoration of
Julian of Norwich (
Anglican)
*
Feast day of the following
saints in the
Roman Catholic Church:
**
Servatus
**
Robert Bellarmine
**
Gerald of Villamagna
**
Rolanda
**
John the Silent
*
Roman Empire -
Feast of the Lemures (See
Larvae)
*
Abbotsbury Garland Day,
Dorset,
England
*
World Fair Trade Day (
2006)
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
Today in History: May 13
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May 12 -
May 14 -
April 13 -
June 13 –
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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