May 13
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May 13 is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 232 days remaining until the end of the year.
Births [change]
- 1024 - Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
- 1254 – Maria of Brabant, Queen of France (d. 1321)
- 1588 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and archaeologist (d. 1654)
- 1655 – Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
- 1699 - Sebastiao Jose de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquess of Pombal, Portuguese statesman (d. 1782)
- 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)
- 1767 – John VI of Portugal (d. 1826)
- 1785 – Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, German historian and statesman (d. 1860)
- 1792 – Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
- 1795 - Gerard 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 doctor, won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1932)
- 1868 - Sumner Paine, American sports shooter (d. 1904)
- 1881 - Lima Barreto, Brazilian author (d. 1922)
- 1882 – Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
- 1883 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor and inventor (d. 1962)
- 1885 - Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984)
- 1894 – Asgeir Asgeirsson, second President of Iceland (d. 1972)
- 1898 – Justin Tuveri, Italian-French World War I veteran (d. 2007)
- 1901 - William S. Beardsley, 31st Governor of Iowa (d. 1954)
- 1905 - Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, President of India (d. 1977)
- 1907 – Daphne du Maurier, British writer (d. 1989)
- 1909 - Ken Darby, American composer, songwriter and conductor (d. 1992)
- 1912 - Gil Evans, Canadian pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader (d. 1988)
- 1913 – William Tolbert, President of Liberia (d. 1980)
- 1914 – Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
- 1922 – Bea Arthur, American actress (d. 2009)
- 1924 – Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer and politician (d. 2010)
- 1928 - Edouard Molinaro, French actor, director and screenwriter
- 1930 – Vernon Shaw, former President of Dominica
- 1930 – Mike Gravel, United States Senator
- 1930 - Jose Jimenez Lozano, Spanish writer
- 1931 – Jim Jones, American religious cult leader (d. 1978)
- 1937 - Trevor Baylis, English stuntman and inventor
- 1939 – Harvey Keitel, American actor
- 1940 - Bruce Chatwin, British writer
- 1941 – Ritchie Valens, American musician (d. 1959)
- 1941 – Senta Berger, Austrian actress
- 1942 - Pal Schmitt, former President of Hungary
- 1944 – Uwe Barschel, German politician (d. 1987)
- 1949 – Zoe Wanamaker, actress
- 1950 – Stevie Wonder, American singer
- 1950 – Danny Kirwan, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
- 1951 – Paul Thompson, British musician (Roxy Music)
- 1951 – Selina Scott, British broadcast journalist
- 1952 – Wang Xiaobo, Chinese writer
- 1952 - John Kasich, 69th Governor of Ohio
- 1954 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist and composer
- 1956 – Richard Madeley, British TV presenter
- 1957 – Alan Ball, American screenwriter
- 1957 – Andrea Klump, former Red Army Faction member
- 1957 - Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer
- 1958 – Frances Barber, British actress
- 1961 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player
- 1964 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian
- 1964 – Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
- 1965 - Hikari Ota, Japanese writer
- 1966 – Alison Goldfrapp, English musician
- 1967 - Chuck Schuldinger, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1967 - Melanie Thornton, American-German singer (d. 2001)
- 1968 – Miguel Angel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997)
- 1969 - Buckethead, American musician
- 1975 - Brian Geraghty, American actor
- 1976 - Ana Popovic, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1977 - Samantha Morton, English actress
- 1979 – Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
- 1979 - Michael Madden, American musician (Maroon 5)
- 1982 - Albert Crusat, Spanish footballer
- 1982 – Oguchi Onyewu, American soccer player
- 1983 – Gregory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
- 1983 – Yaya Toure, Ivorian footballer
- 1983 - Anita Gorbicz, Hungarian handball player
- 1985 – Jaroslav Halak, Slovakian ice hockey player
- 1986 – Robert Pattinson, British actor
- 1986 – Alexander Rybak, Norwegian singer
- 1986 - Lena Dunham, American filmmaker and actress
- 1987 - Candice Accola, American actress and musician
- 1987 - Hunter Parrish, American actor and singer
- 1988 – Casey Donovan, Australian singer
- 1993 – Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer
- 1993 - Debby Ryan, American actress
Deaths [change]
- 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)
- 1742 - Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
- 1835 – John Nash, architect (b. 1752)
- 1884 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
- 1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
- 1901 - Leopoldo Alas, Spanish novelist (b. 1851)
- 1903 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
- 1916 – Sholom Aleichem, author (b. 1859)
- 1926 – Libert H. Boeynaems, ss.cc., Roman Catholic prelate
- 1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer and diplomat (b. 1861)
- 1937 – Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
- 1938 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, Swiss physicist (b. 1861)
- 1941 – Onishiki Uichiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1891)
- 1945 – Tubby Hall, American jazz musician (b. 1895)
- 1957 - Michael Fikete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician (b. 1886)
- 1961 – Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1963 – Alois Hudal, Austrian Roman Catholic bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (b. 1885)
- 1972 – Dan Blocker, actor (b. 1928)
- 1975 – Bob Wills, American country musician (b. 1905)
- 1977 – Mickey Spillane, gangster (b. 1934)
- 1988 – Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
- 1999 – Gene Sarazen, golfer (b. 1902)
- 2001 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
- 2002 – Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and coach (b. 1939)
- 2003 – John Savage, former Premier of Nova Scotia
- 2005 – George Dantzig, American mathematician
- 2008 – Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
- 2009 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountain climber (b. 1914)
- 2009 - Monica Bleibtreu, German actress (b. 1944)
- 2011 – Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
- 2011 – Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist (b. 1916)
- 2012 - Nguyen Van Thien, Vietnamese bishop (b. 1906)
- 2012 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American musician (b. 1941)
- 2013 - Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (b. 1924)
- 2013 - Philippe Gaumont, French racing cyclist (b. 1973)
- 2013 - Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and TV personality (b. 1927)
Events [change]
- 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.
- 1572 - Pope Gregory XIII is elected. During his time, some countries in Europe would become the first to use the Gregorian calendar, which is named after him.
- 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.
- 1647 – 12,000 people are killed in an earthquake in Santiago, Chile.
- 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 the First Fleet, 11 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.
- 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 claim to see the Blessed Virgin Mary above a holmoak tree in Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal.
- 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 – First Kashmir War between India and Pakistan
- 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 - The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone racecourse in Northamptonshire.
- 1958 - Ben Carlin becomes the first, and only, person to circumnavigate (travel round) the world in an amphibious vehicle, a vehicle that can travel both in water and on land.
- 1958 - May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers, demanding a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle as its head, in order to defend French control in Algeria.
- 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.
- 1967 - Zakir Hussain becomes President of India, as the first person of Islamic faith to hold the post of President in India.
- 1969 – Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the 13 May Incident.
- 1972 – A nightclub fire in Osaka kills 119 people.
- 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.
- 1980 - A Force-2 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
- 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.
- 1994 - Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance.
- 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.
- 1997 – Storms in Yunnan and Guangdong kill 290 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 f 1,000,000,000 (€450,000,000) damage.
- 2005 – The final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise airs in the United States, bringing to a close an 18-year uninterrupted television franchise.
- 2005 – The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
- 2012 – Pastor Maldonado becomes the first Venezuelan to win a Formula One Grand Prix, in Spain.
