WillDekkard
05-13-2010, 03:21 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 13th
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* 1373 Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations.
* 1497 Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
* 1515 Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
* 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 being convicted of treason.
* 1648 Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
* 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 Innviertel).
* 1780 Cumberland Compact signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
* 1787 Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts (First Fleet) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
* 1804 Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derne from the Americans attack the city.
* 1830 Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
* 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 the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
* 1861 The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
* 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Resaca the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia.
* 1865 American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. 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 Αurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
* 1909 The first Giro d'Italia takes place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna is the winner.
* 1912 The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom.
* 1913 Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
* 1917 Three children report the first apparition of the Virgin Mary in Fαtima, Portugal.
* 1939 The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
* 1940 World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
* 1940 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Great Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
* 1941 World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
* 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 The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
* 1952 The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
* 1954 The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
* 1958 During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
* 1958 The trade mark Velcro is registered.
* 1958 May 1958 crisis: a group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers, demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
* 1960 Hundreds of UC Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
* 1967 Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of Indian Union. He held this position until August 24, 1969.
* 1969 Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
* 1972 Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators cause 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
* 1980 An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
* 1981 Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
* 1985 Police storm MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
* 1989 Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
* 1992 Li Hongzhi gave the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
* 1994 Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
* 1996 Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
* 1998 Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
* 1998 India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
* 2000 In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately 450 million in damage.
* 2005 The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
* 2006 2006 Sγo Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
* 2007 Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins.
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- May 13th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1373 Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations.
* 1497 Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
* 1515 Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
* 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 being convicted of treason.
* 1648 Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
* 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 Innviertel).
* 1780 Cumberland Compact signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
* 1787 Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts (First Fleet) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
* 1804 Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derne from the Americans attack the city.
* 1830 Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
* 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 the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
* 1861 The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
* 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Resaca the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia.
* 1865 American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. 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 Αurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
* 1909 The first Giro d'Italia takes place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna is the winner.
* 1912 The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom.
* 1913 Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
* 1917 Three children report the first apparition of the Virgin Mary in Fαtima, Portugal.
* 1939 The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
* 1940 World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
* 1940 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Great Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
* 1941 World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
* 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 The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
* 1952 The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
* 1954 The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
* 1958 During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
* 1958 The trade mark Velcro is registered.
* 1958 May 1958 crisis: a group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers, demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
* 1960 Hundreds of UC Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
* 1967 Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of Indian Union. He held this position until August 24, 1969.
* 1969 Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
* 1972 Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators cause 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
* 1980 An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
* 1981 Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
* 1985 Police storm MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
* 1989 Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
* 1992 Li Hongzhi gave the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
* 1994 Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
* 1996 Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
* 1998 Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
* 1998 India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
* 2000 In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately 450 million in damage.
* 2005 The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
* 2006 2006 Sγo Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
* 2007 Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins.
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