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13 May 1106
Henry I of Limburg loses the duchy of Lower Lorraine to Godfrey of Louvain
13 May 1110
Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath
13 May 1497
Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola
13 May 1559
Exhumed corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel
13 May 1568
Mary Queen of Scots is defeated at Battle of Langside
13 May 1637
Cardinal Richelieu of France reputedly creates the table knife
13 May 1643
Battle of Grantham English parliamentary armies beat royalists
13 May 1643
Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago Chile kills 13 of population
13 May 1648
Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
13 May 1652
Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki
13 May 1830
Republic of Ecuador is founded with Juan Jose Flores as president
13 May 1846
US declares war on Mexico 2 months after fighting begins
13 May 1848
First performance of Finlands national anthem
13 May 1861
The Great Comet of is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor New South Wales Australia
13 May 1864
-16] Atlanta Campaign Battle of Resaca Georgia
13 May 1865
Battle of Palmito Ranch near Brownsville Texas final engagement of the American Civil War Private John Jefferson Williams of B Company 34th Regiment Indiana Infantry is last man killed
13 May 1874
Pope Pius IX encyclical On Greek-Ruthenian rite
13 May 1882
Toba indians kill 20 members of French expedition in Argentina
13 May 1884
Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) forms in New York
13 May 1887
15th Preakness William Donohue aboard Dunboyne wins in 239.25
13 May 1888
Princess Isabel of Brazil signs Lei Aura abolishing slavery
13 May 1890
18th Preakness W Martin aboard Montague wins in 236.75
13 May 1891
17th Kentucky Derby Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman wins in 252.25
13 May 1909
Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
13 May 1909
First Giro dItalia takes place in Milan - Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna is the winner
13 May 1911
37th Kentucky Derby George Archibald aboard Meridian wins in 205
13 May 1911
NY Giant Fred Merkle is 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
13 May 1915
US Secretary of State Bryan sends a note to Germany demanding that Germany disavow the attacks on the Lusitania and make immediate reparations however the note is written only to pacify exited public opinion according to Bryan
13 May 1916
1st observance of Indian (Native American) Day
13 May 1916
42nd Kentucky Derby Johnny Loftus aboard George Smith wins in 204
13 May 1917
1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima Portugal
13 May 1922
48th Kentucky Derby Albert Johnson aboard Morvich wins in 204.6
13 May 1922
47th Preakness L Morris aboard Pillory wins in 151.6
13 May 1923
Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter for One of Ours
13 May 1933
58th Preakness Charley Kurtsinger aboard Head Play wins in 202
13 May 1934
Great dustbowl storm sweeps across US prairies
13 May 1939
64th Preakness George Seabo aboard Challedon wins in 159.8
13 May 1939
SS St Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jewish fugitives
13 May 1941
Trial against resistance fighter comte dEstienne dOrves begins
13 May 1941
Willy Lewis US jazz band performs in Switzerland
13 May 1943
German occupiers attempt to confiscate all radios in the Netherlands
13 May 1944
69th Preakness Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 159.2
13 May 1946
Sarwate & Banerjee add 249 for 10th wkt for Indians v Surrey
13 May 1946
US sentences 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
13 May 1947
US Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
13 May 1949
1st British-produced jet bomber the Canberra makes its 1st test flight
13 May 1950
First ever race of the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship is run at Silverstone England and won by Giuseppe Farina of italy in an Alfa Romeo
13 May 1952
Minor-league Bristol pitcher Ron Necciai strikes out 27 in 9-innings
13 May 1952
The Rajya Sabha the upper house of the Parliament of India holds its first sitting
13 May 1954
Pajama Game opens at St James Theater NYC for 1063 performances
13 May 1954
Robin Roberts gives up a HR then retires next 27 men in a row
13 May 1954
Chinese Middle School students in Singapore take part in anti-National Service riots
13 May 1956
Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
13 May 1958
French settlers riot against French army in Algeria
13 May 1959
Kraft Music Hall with Milton Berle last airs on NBC-TV
13 May 1960
1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle it failed
13 May 1965
Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel
13 May 1966
US Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
13 May 1967
NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR 500 off Stu Miller
13 May 1967
Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
13 May 1967
Zakir Husain is elected the third President of India
13 May 1969
Race riots later known as the May 13 Incident take place in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
13 May 1971
Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
13 May 1972
115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi department store (Osaka Japan)
13 May 1972
Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins 4-3 in 22 innings (started 512)
13 May 1972
Battle at Springmartin following a loyalist car bombing of a Catholic-owned pub in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast clashes erupt between PIRA UVF and British Army
13 May 1973
Cyrano opens at Palace Theater NYC for 49 performances
13 May 1975
Rodgers & Hart opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 108 performances
13 May 1975
Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville Tennessee
13 May 1976
9th & final ABA championship NY Nets beat Denver Nuggets 4 games to 2
13 May 1978
Angel closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
13 May 1978
Musical Runaways opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 199 performances with Elizabeth Swados
13 May 1978
Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3000 m steeplechase (805.4)
13 May 1978
Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels
13 May 1979
Utter Glory... Morrissey Hall opens & closes at Mark Hellinger NYC
13 May 1979
Shah of Iran & family sentenced to death in Tehran
13 May 1980
Cincinnati Red Ray Knight hits 2 HRs in 5th inning vs NY Mets
13 May 1981
Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st European Cup Winners Cup against Carl Zeiss Jena of East Germany 2-1 in Dsseldorf
13 May 1982
Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
13 May 1982
Terri Lea Utley 20 (Arkansas) crowned 31st Miss USA
13 May 1984
Oliver closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 17 performances
13 May 1984
Dutch footballer Johan Cruyffs last competitive match
13 May 1985
Carlton Fisk becomes 5th catcher to steal 100 bases
13 May 1985
Laura Elena Martinez-Herring 21 (Texas) crowned 34th Miss USA
13 May 1985
Philadelphia police attack a house held by group Move 11 killed
13 May 1987
Ajax of the Netherlands win 27th European Cup Winners Cup against Lokomotive Leipzig 1-0 of East Germany in Athens
13 May 1989
Approx 2000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square China
13 May 1989
Trinidad & Tobago ties US 1-1 in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
13 May 1990
Change in the Heir closes at Edison Theater NYC after 16 performances
13 May 1991
Yankee Stadium fans sing Like a Virgin to Jose Canseco
13 May 1992
3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space for the 1st time
13 May 1992
Concrete foundation for ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) is poured
13 May 1992
Frank Stallone beats Geraldo Rivera in boxing on Howard Stern Show
13 May 1992
Li Hongzhi gave the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun Peoples Republic of China.
13 May 1993
6th annual business person run held in Wall Street
13 May 1993
Arsenio Halls 1000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands
13 May 1993
CBS soap opera Knots Landing ends 14 year-run with 334th show in Netherlands and US
13 May 1993
Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa kills 50
13 May 1994
Indians begin a 18 home game home win streak at Jacobs Field
13 May 1995
Team New Zealand beats Team Dennis Conner 5-0 to win the Americas Cup for the first time
13 May 1995
Chelsi Smith 21 of USA crowned 44th Miss Universe Shanna Lynn Moakler (19-NY) replaces Chelsi Smith as Miss USA
13 May 1995
40th Eurovision Song Contest Secret Garden for Norway wins singing Nocturne in Dublin
13 May 1996
Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
13 May 1998
Race riots break out in Jakarta Indonesia where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped
13 May 1998
India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran in addition to the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
13 May 1998
Chelsea of England win 38th European Cup Winners Cup against Stuttgart of Germany 1-0 in Stockholm
13 May 1999
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi is elected 10th President of Italy
13 May 2000
In Enschede the Netherlands a fireworks factory explodes killing 22 people wounding 950 and resulting in approximately 450 million in damage
13 May 2000
45th Eurovision Song Contest Olsen Brothers for Denmark wins singing Fly on the Wings of Love in Stockholm
13 May 2001
Silvio Berlusconis right-wing House of Freedoms coalition wins the Italian general election
13 May 2001
47th British Academy Television Awards Da Ali G Show Best Comedy Clocking Off Best Drama
13 May 2004
The final episode of Frasier on NBC is watched by 33 million people
13 May 2006
English FA Cup Final Millennium Stadium Cardiff (71140) Liverpool beats West Ham United 3-1 on penalties after 33 (a.e.t.) Reds 7th title
13 May 2007
Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins.
13 May 2007
5th Republic protest in support of state secularism held in zmir Turkey
13 May 2007
At 16 years 65 days Matthew Briggs debuts for Fulham in a 3-1 defeat at Middlesbrough youngest player to appear in an English Premier League match
13 May 2011
Portugal slips into double-dip recession after the economy contracts by 0.7% in the first quarter of with a 0.6% contraction in the last quarter of 2010 it is reported today
13 May 2011
Romania officially leaves the recession after 2 years following economic growth of an annualised 1.6% in the first quarter
13 May 2012
49 dismembered bodies are found on a Mexican highway as part of the Mexican drug war
13 May 2012
Torrential rain in Hunan Province China destroys a bridge 3500 homes and displaces 28000 people
13 May 2012
Manchester City win the English Premier League for the first time
13 May 2012
Manchester City beats QPR 3-2 at City of Manchester Stadium to win English Premier League title on goal difference from Manchester United Citizens recover from 21 down with 2 stoppage-time goals first EPL title decided on goal difference
13 May 2012
PGA Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass Matt Kuchar wins by 2 strokes ahead of Ricky Fowler Zach Johnson Martin Laird and Ben Curtis
13 May 2014
Unidentified shipwreck is discovered off the northern coast of Haiti by marine archaeologist Barry Clifford
13 May 2014
301 miners are killed by an underground explosion and mine fire in Soma Mine Manisa Turkey
13 May 2017
62nd Eurovision Song Contest Portugals Salvador Sobral wins singing Amar Pelos Dois
13 May 2017
Bus plunges off cliff near Marmaris Turkey killing at least 23 injuring 11
13 May 1916
Lafayette Escadrille an American air force unit under French command comprised of volunteers to fight for France see first combat at the Battle of Verdun
13 May 2017
22 year old UK blogger halts spread of global ransomware cyber-attack by accidentally identifying kill switch
13 May 1878
Danvers State Lunatic Hospital which served as the inspiration behind H.P. Lovercraft Arkham Sanitorium which in turn inspired DC Comics Arkham Asylum is opened in Danvers Massachusetts
13 May 1878
Danvers State Hospital a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts openslater serves as inspiration for Arkham Sanitorium in the work of H.P. Lovecraft which in turn inspired Arkham Asylum of the D.C. Batman universe
13 May 1956
Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens (Cleveland Ohio)
13 May 1277
As Vizier Mehmet I of Karaman issues a firman (decree) ordering only the Turkish language to be used not Arabic or Persian
13 May 1497
Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Italian Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola (urged the expulsion of the Medicis from Florence)
13 May 1624
Dutch Admiral Hermites Nassau fleet blockades Lima Peru
13 May 1638
Construction of the Red Fort begins at Shahjahanabad Mughal Empire (now Dehli India)
13 May 1654
Venetian fleet under Norwegian Admiral Cort Adeler beats Turkish fleet the near the Dardanelles sinking 15 Turkish galleys
13 May 1848
First performance of Finlands national anthem Maamme composed by Fredrik Pacius Swedish words by Johan Ludvig Runeberg
13 May 1864
-16] Atlanta Campaign Battle of Resaca Georgia
13 May 1876
Amersfoort-Zutphen railway in the Netherlands opens
13 May 1877
Caesar Francks symphonic poem Lesson Eolides premieres
13 May 1882
Toba indians kill 20 members of French expedition in Argentina including explorer Jules Nicolas Crevaux
13 May 1888
Princess Isabel of Brazil acting as regent signs the Lei Aura (Golden Law) abolishing slavery in Brazil
13 May 1947
US Senate approves the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
13 May 1952
Ron Necciai of Pittsburgh Pirates Bristol Twins Class D farm team strikes out 27 in 9-innings as he no-hits Welch Minors 4 Minors do reach base
13 May 1985
Philadelphia Pennsylvania police drop explosive device on house occupied by revolutionary Black separatist group Move killing 11 during stand-off after a shoot-out ensuing fire destroys 61 homes
13 May 1992
Concrete foundation for ballpark at Jacobs Field (now Progressive Field) is poured In downtown Cleveland Ohio
13 May 1994
MLB Cleveland Indians begin a 18 home game win streak at newly opened Jacobs Field
13 May 1497
Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Italian Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola for leading the expulsion of the Medicis from Florence
13 May 1643
Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago Chile kills a third of the population
13 May 1923
Pulitzer Prize awarded to Willa Cather for her World War I-based novel One of Ours
13 May 1939
SS St Louis departs Hamburg Germany with 937 Jewish refugees bound for Havana Cuba authorities refused to admit them and most of the passengers returned to Europe [1]
13 May 1962
Ossie Davis comedic stage farce Purlie Victorious starring the playwright closes the Longacre Theatre NYC after 261 performances
13 May 1989
Approximately 2000 students begin a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square China to force a dialogue with the government ahead of a visit by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
13 May 1991
Apple releases Macintosh operating System 7 codenamed the Big Bang
13 May 1993
6th annual businessperson run held in Wall Street
13 May 2017
22-year-old UK blogger halts spread of global ransomware cyber-attack by accidentally identifying kill switch
13 May 2018
Arsne Wenger guides Arsenal to a 1-0 win at Huddersfield in his final game as Gunners manager after 22 years in charge
13 May 2018
Chinas first domestically built aircraft carrier begins sea trials in Dalian China
13 May 2018
Family of six carry out 3 church bombings in Surabaya Indonesia killing at least 13. Islamic State claims responsibility.
13 May 2018
Manchester City ends the EPL season with a 1-0 win at Southampton having smashed 11 Premier League records including biggest title winning margin (19 points) and most points (100)
13 May 2019
China retaliates against the US as their trade war escalates raising tariffs on 60 billion worth of goods affecting over 4000 items
13 May 2019
Diary of Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelts last days rediscovered and displayed for the 400th anniversary of his execution
13 May 2019
New study on the moon shows it is still shrinking with recent moonquakes as it cools published in journal Nature Geoscience
13 May 2019
Sri Lanka imposes a nationwide curfew from 9pm to 4am to curb violence against Muslims after the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks
13 May 2020
Every African country records cases of COVID-19 as The Kingdom of Lesotho becomes the last country on the continent to record a case
13 May 2021
American CDC says people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can stop wearing masks
13 May 2021
Gaza conflict has killed 103 people in Palestine including 27 children through Israeli airstrikes more than 1000 rockets fired into Israel by Gaza militants killing seven city of Lod center of street fighting [1]
13 May 2021
Worlds largest iceberg A-76 at 1667-square-miles (4320 square km) calves off the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica [1]
13 May 1830
The Republic of Ecuador is founded with Juan Jos Flores as president
13 May 1878
Danvers State Hospital a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts opens and later serves as inspiration for Arkham Sanitorium in the work of H.P. Lovecraft which in turn inspires Arkham Asylum of the D.C. Batman universe
13 May 1888
DeWolf Hopper first recites the comedic baseball poem Casey at the Bat
13 May 1949
First British-produced jet bomber the Canberra makes its first test flight
13 May 1958
MLB San Francisco Giants teammates Willie Mays & Darryl Spencer each hit 2 HRs & a triple and combine for 10 RBI in a 16-9 win over the Dodgers at Los Angeles
13 May 1965
Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it establishes diplomatic relations with Israel
13 May 1992
Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun China
13 May 1992
Three astronauts simultaneously walk in space for the first time
13 May 1996
Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill an estimated 600 people
13 May 1998
India carries out two additional nuclear tests at Pokhran after the three conducted on May 11 resulting in the US and Japan imposing economic sanctions
13 May 1559
Exhumed corpse of heretic David Joris is burned in Basel
13 May 1652
Ingen Ryuki is invited to become abbot of Sofukuji Temple in Nagasaki
13 May 1916
First observance of Indian (Native American) Day
13 May 1917
First appearance of the Virgin Mary to three shepherd children in Ftima Portugal
13 May 1930
Colonel Jacob Schick is granted a US Patent for the first electric razor (US1757978A)
13 May 1940
Aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky pilots first untethered test flight of his VS-300 helicopter in Stratford Connecticut [1]
13 May 1946
Sarwate and Banerjee add 249 for the 10th wicket for India against Surrey
13 May 1950
First-ever race of the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship is run at Silverstone England and won by Giuseppe Farina of Italy in an Alfa Romeo
13 May 1955
Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463
13 May 1958
MLB player Stan Musial is 8th to get 3000 hits
13 May 1958
MLB San Francisco Giants teammates Willie Mays and Darryl Spencer each hit 2 home runs and a triple and combine for 10 RBIs in a 16-9 win over the Dodgers in Los Angeles
13 May 1960
First launch of the Delta satellite launch vehicle it fails
13 May 1979
Michael Hill and his wife Christine open their first Michael Hill Jeweller store in Whangrei New Zealand
13 May 1982
Soyuz T-5 launches carrying Anatoly Berezovoy and Valentin Lebedev for a mission lasting 211 days in space
13 May 1989
Minnesota Twin Kirby Puckett becomes 35th to hit 4 doubles in a game
13 May 1996
O.J. Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict
13 May 1997
Eddie Murray is 6th baseball player to play in 3000 games
13 May 2010
Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held at Carnegie Hall NYC performers include Sting Elton John Bruce Springsteen Mary J. Blige Debbie Harry Lady Gaga Shirley Bassey Nile Rodgers and Chic
13 May 2011
Romania exits recession after two years following annualized economic growth of 1.6% in the first quarter
13 May 2013
American physician Kermit Gosnell is convicted of three counts of first-degree murder for killing babies and one count of involuntary manslaughter [1]
13 May 2017
22-year-old UK blogger halts the spread of a global ransomware cyberattack by accidentally identifying a kill switch
13 May 2018
A family of six carries out three church bombings in Surabaya Indonesia killing at least 13 people. The Islamic State claims responsibility.
13 May 2019
The Tradition Senior Mens Golf Greystone G &CC Steve Stricker wins his first career major title by 6 strokes ahead of Billy Andrade Paul Goydos & David Toms