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- 1110 Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath
- 1364 Peter Coutherel banished from Leuven
- 1497 Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola
- 1559 Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel
- 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.
- 1588 King Henri III flees Paris
- 1607 English colonists (John Smith) land near James River in Virginia
- 1619 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
- 1624 Admiral Hermites fleet blockade Lima Peru
- 1637 Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife
- 1643 Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists
- 1643 Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago Chile; kills 1/3 of population
- 1648 Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi was completed.
- 1652 Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki
- 1654 Venetian fleet under Admiral Adeler beats Turkish
- 1777 University library at Vienna opens
- 1779 War of Bavarian Succession ends
- 1787 A fleet of eleven ships left Britain with two years provision and a cargo of 759 unwilling convicts, their guards,and ships crew numbering - 1530 people in all. They were to colonise a new land. Australia
- 1787 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay
- 1820 The opera "Die Jäearsbraut" is completed
- 1828 US passes Tariff of Abominations
- 1830 Ecuador gains its independence.
- 1830 Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president
- 1835 The first foreign embassy in Hawaii is established
- 1846 US declares war on México, 2 months after fighting begins
- 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.
- 1861 Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality
- 1865 South Brownsville TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed
- 1876 Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens
- 1880 In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
- 1882 Toba-Indians killed 20 members of French expedition
- 1884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is founded
- 1888 Brazil abolishes slavery
- 1888 DeWolf Hopper first recited "Casey at the Bat"
- 1888 Princess Isabel of Brazil signs "Lei Auréa" abolishing slavery
- 1888 With the passage of the Lei urea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
- 1890 Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda & Equatoria
- 1906 Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem
- 1908 Navy Nurse Corps established.
- 1909 Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
- 1909 The first Giro d'Italia took place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the winner.
- 1912 Royal Flying Corps is established in England
- 1913 Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
- 1913 The first 4 engine aircraft built & flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)
- 1916 42nd Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard George Smith wins in 2:04
- 1916 The first observance of Indian (Native American) Day
- 1917 Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo" premieres
- 1917 The Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, is consecrated Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV.
- 1917 Three peasant children report seeing the Blessed Virgin Mary near Ftima, Portugal.[1]
- 1918 The first US airmail stamps issued (24¢)
- 1926 German Government of Luther falls
- 1927 "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
- 1927 VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk
- 1929 The first suicidal person jumps off of the Statue of Liberty.
- 1930 Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock TX; this is the only known fatality due to hail
- 1931 Paul Doumer elected President of France
- 1932 Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitch marries Nina Varsar
- 1934 Great dustbowl storm
- 1936 Quiroga Government takes office in Spain
- 1939 SS St Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives
- 1939 The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later became WDRC-FM.
- 1940 British bomb factory at Breda
- 1940 German breakthrough at Grebbelinie
- 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 Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany
- 1941 Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins
- 1941 Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland
- 1942 Helicopter makes its first cross-country flight
- 1942 US troops replace New Zealanders in Fiji
- 1943 Axis forces surrender in Tunisia – end of the North African campaign
- 1943 Bureau of Navigation renamed Bureau of Naval Personnel
- 1943 German & Italian forces in Africa surrender
- 1943 World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
- 1945 Aircraft from fast carrier task force begin 2-day attack on Kyushu airfields, Japan
- 1945 US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa
- 1946 Sarwate & Banerjee add 249 for 10th wicket for Indians vs Surrey
- 1946 US convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
- 1946 Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam
- 1947 Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
- 1949 The first British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its first test flight later this type of aricaraft was used in the 1982 war in the Falklands
- 1950 Diner's Club issues its first credit cards
- 1952 Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
- 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 French settlers riot against French army in Algeria
- 1958 Jordan & Iraq form the Arab Federation
- 1958 Visitor posting - May 13,1958 Jeffery Carbaugh is born in York,Pa.
- 1958 Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1958 Pierre Pflimlin forms French Government
- 1958 Rioters attack US Vice President Nixon in Venezuala
- 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.
- 1960 The first launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
- 1960 Visitor posting - Chris Peck born - Canada
- 1964 Organization and deployment of world's first all nuclear-powered task group, USS Enterprise, USS Long Beach, and USS Bainbridge, to Sixth Fleet
- 1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - Roger Miller - King Of The Road
- 1965 Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction"
- 1965 Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel
- 1966 Visitor posting - Mackenzie Kupyn born in Bellevue, WA
- 1966 Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
- 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.
- 1967 Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
- 1968 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle & Pompidou
- 1969 Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the May 13 Incident.
- 1970 Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres
- 1970 The Beatles movie Let It Be premieres today
- 1971 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
- 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.
- 1975 Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville TN
- 1975 Stanley Cup ; Philadelphia Flyers beat New York Islanders 4-3
- 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.
- 1978 Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels
- 1978 Number one hit on UK music charts - Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon / Brown Girl In The Girl
- 1979 Shah & family sentenced to death in Teheran
- 1980 An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
- 1981 Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st Europe Cup II
- 1981 Mehmet Ali Aca 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.
- 1981 Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St Peter's Square
- 1982 Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
- 1982 Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
- 1982 Terri Lea Utley, (20), from Arkansas, crowned 31st Miss USA
- 1983 Reggie Jackson becomes the first major league baseball player to strike out 2,000 times
- 1985 Laura Elena Martinez-Herring, 21, (Texas), crowned 34th Miss USA
- 1985 Philadelphia Police bomb a house held by group "Move", kills 11
- 1985 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania police storm MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
- 1986 Visitor posting - May 13 1986 great philosopher and clairvoyant Sean Johns born
- 1987 Ajax wins 27th Europe Cup II
- 1989 Approximately 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
- 1989 Large groups of students occupied Tiananmen Square and began a hunger strike. See Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
- 1989 Number one hit on UK music charts - Kylie Minogue - Hand On Your Heart
- 1989 Thousands of students stage a hunger strike in China's Tiananmen Square
- 1991 "Michael Jackson: The Magic & the Madness" goes on sale
- 1991 Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
- 1992 Ajax wins 21st UEFA Cup
- 1992 Final episode of "Night Court" airs on NBC-TV
- 1993 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street
- 1993 Visitor posting - Taylor graced this world with her existence! - USA
- 1993 Arsenio Hall's 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands
- 1993 Visitor posting - may 13 1993 Sarah was born YAYYYYY
- 1993 CBS' Knots Landing ends 14 year run with 334th show in Netherlands
- 1993 Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa, kills 50
- 1993 Visitor posting - Alonso Vasquez was born in Los Angeles Cali. and lives in El Paso Tx...ILY
- 1993 Visitor posting - Mr.Bedoya was born in Northern California and lives in Santa Rosa, the Bay Area!!!!!!!!!! - USA
- 1995 6.5 earthquake hits Greece
- 1995 Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe;
- 1995 New Zealand beats US for the America's Cup
- 1996 OJ Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict
- 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.
- 1998 Visitor posting - Travis Younger Dalton (Bubba) went to heaven. Rest in Peace our Angel - USA
- 1998 Visitor posting - Semeen Mahbubs Birthday - United Kingdom
- 2000 In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately 450 million in damage.
- 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.
- 2001 Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms coalition wins the Italian general elections.
- 2002 Ruth Cracknell Dies - 13/5/07
- 2005 Malcolm Glazer completes a hostile takeover of Manchester United for $1.4 billion.
- 2005 The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
- 2006 2006 So 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.
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