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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.
- 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: 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 Fatima, Portugal.[1]
- 1917 - The Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, is consecrated Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV[2]
- 1940 - World War II: 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 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.
- 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.
- 1950 - First All-time Formula One Grand Prix. It is held at Silverstone Circuit, England
- 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, world's seventh-highest mountain.
- 1969 - Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the 13 May Incident.
- 1976 - The 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 Ağca attempts to 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 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 (BRAC 2005).
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 - Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 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, Irish singer and songwriter
- 1956 - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation
- 1957 - Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, producer
- 1961 - Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
- 1962 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003)
- 1966 - Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & The Blowfish)
- 1967 - Chuck Schuldiner, American singer (Death) (d. 2001)
- 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 of Sweden
- 1981 - Sunny Leone, Canadian model
- 1981 - Jimmy Yang, American professional wrestler
- 1988 - Casey Donovan, Australian singer
- 1989 - Scott Kraemer, American Musician
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, 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 laureate (b. 1861)
- 1945 - Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895)
- 1961 - Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
- 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, 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:
- Roman Empire - Feast of the Lemures (See Larvae)
- Abbotsbury Garland Day, Dorset, England
- World Fair Trade Day (2006)
External links
May 12 - May 14 - April 13 - June 13 – listing of all days