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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.

Events

• 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 Áurea ("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 Fátima, 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 holds this position till 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 Night 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 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
• 2007 – Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins.

Births

• 1024 – Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
• 1254 – Maria of Brabant, queen of France (d. 1321)
• 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)
• 1707 – Carl von Linné, Swedish scientist (d. 1778)
• 1712 – Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (d. 1772)
• 1717 – Queen Maria Theresa of Hungary and Bohemia, Holy Roman Empress (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)
• 1753 – Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)
• 1792 – Blessed Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
• 1794 – Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
• 1795 – Gérard 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)
• 1856 – Tom O'Rourke, American boxing manager (d. 1938)
• 1857 – Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1932)
• 1882 – Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
• 1883 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (d. 1962)
• 1894 – Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972)
• 1895 – Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-born psychologist and parapsychologist (d. 1964)
• 1898 – Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (d. 2007)
• 1904 – Louis Duffus, South African cricketer (d. 1984)
• 1907 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)
• 1911 – Robert Middleton, American film and television actor (d. 1977)
• 1912 – Gil Evans, Canadian musician (d. 1988)
• 1912 – Judah Nadich, American rabbi (d. 2007)
• 1913 – William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian president (d. 1980)
• 1914 – Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
• 1918 – T. Balasaraswati, Bharatanatyam dancer (d. 1984)
• 1920 – Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Michael Ainsworth, British cricketer (d. 1978)
• 1922 – Beatrice Arthur, American actress (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Otl Aicher, German graphic designer (d. 1991)
• 1923 – Red Garland, American hard bop jazz pianist (d.1984)
• 1924 – Harry Schwarz, South African anti-apartheid politician, lawyer and diplomat (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Theodore Mann, American theatre producer and director
• 1926 – Wallace Breem, British author (d. 1990)
• 1927 – Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (d. 1958)
• 1927 – Herbert Ross, American director (d. 2001)
• 1928 – Édouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter
• 1928 – Enrique Bolaños, former President of Nicaragua
• 1928 – Jim Shoulders, American rodeo cowboy (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Mike Gravel, Americn politician
• 1930 – José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish writer
• 1930 – Vernon Shaw, former President of Dominica
• 1931 – Jim Jones, American cult leader (d. 1978)
• 1934 – Leon Wagner, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1935 – Dominic Cossa, American baritone
• 1937 – Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist
• 1937 – Roger Zelazny, American author (d. 1995)
• 1937 – Trevor Baylis, English inventor
• 1937 – Zohra Lampert, American actress
• 1938 – Laurent Beaudoin, French/Canadian businessman
• 1938 – Giuliano Amato, Italian politician
• 1939 – Harvey Keitel, American actor
• 1939 – Hildrun Claus, German athlete
• 1940 – Bruce Chatwin, British writer (d. 1989)
• 1941 – Senta Berger, Austrian actress
• 1941 – Joe Brown, British singer
• 1941 – Ritchie Valens, American singer (d. 1959)
• 1941 – Jody Conradt, American basketball coach
• 1942 – Roger Young, American television director
• 1943 – Kurt Trampedach, Danish artist
• 1943 – Mary Wells, American singer (d. 1992)
• 1944 – Armistead Maupin, American author
• 1945 – Sam Anderson, American actor
• 1945 – Magic Dick, American musician (The J. Geils Band)
• 1946 – Waneta Hoyt, American serial killer (d. 1998)
• 1947 – Edgar Burcksen, Dutch film editor
• 1949 – Zoë Wanamaker, English/American actress
• 1950 – Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician
• 1950 – Danny Kirwan, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
• 1950 – Bobby Valentine, baseball manager
• 1951 – Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 1951 – Paul Thompson, British rock drummer (Roxy Music)
• 1951 – James Whale, English radio personality
• 1952 – John Kasich, U.S. Congressman
• 1952 – Mary Walsh, Canadian comedian and actress
• 1954 – Johnny Logan, Irish singer and songwriter
• 1956 – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation
• 1956 – Richard Madeley, Television presenter
• 1956 – Kirk Thornton, American voice actor
• 1957 – Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, and producer
• 1957 – Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer
• 1957 – Andrea Klump, German terrorist
• 1957 – Manuel "Mar" Araneta Roxas II, Philippine Senator
• 1961 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
• 1962 – Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003)
• 1962 – Kathleen Jamie, Scottish poet
• 1962 – Sean McDonough, American sports newscaster
• 1962 – Paul McDermott, Australian comedian
• 1963 – Wally Masur, Australian tennis player
• 1964 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor
• 1964 – Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
• 1964 – Tom Verica, American actor
• 1965 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (d. 2006)
• 1965 – Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian
• 1965 – Tasmin Little, English violinist
• 1965 – Lari White, American country music singer
• 1966 – Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & the Blowfish)
• 1966 – Nikos Aliagas, Greek TV show host
• 1966 – Kamen Vodenicharov, Bulgarian entertainer
• 1967 – Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death, Control Denied) (d. 2001)
• 1967 – Melanie Thornton, American pop singer (La Bouche) (d. 2001)
• 1968 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997)
• 1968 – Alison Goldfrapp, English musician
• 1968 – PMD, American rapper
• 1969 – Buckethead, American musician
• 1971 – Tom Nalen, American football player
• 1972 – Stefaan Maene, Belgian swimmer
• 1974 – Brian Geraghty, American actor
• 1976 – Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer
• 1976 – Trajan Langdon, American basketball player
• 1977 – Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer
• 1977 – Robby Hammock, American baseball player
• 1977 – Neil Hopkins, American actor
• 1977 – Samantha Morton, English actress
• 1978 – Mike Bibby, American basketball player
• 1978 – Ryan Bukvich, American baseball player
• 1978 – Steve Mildenhall, English footballer
• 1978 – Dilshan Vitharana, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1978 – Barry Zito, American baseball player
• 1979 – Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
• 1979 – Michael Madden, American musician (Maroon 5)
• 1980 – Chris Barker, American bassist (Anti-Flag)
• 1980 – Waka Inoue, Japanese gravure idol and actress
• 1980 – Mau Marcelo, Filipino singer
• 1981 – Sunny Leone, Canadian/American pornographic actress
• 1981 – Rebecka Liljeberg, Swedish actress
• 1981 – James Yun, American professional wrestler
• 1982 – Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol
• 1982 – Oguchi Onyewu, American footballer
• 1983 – Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
• 1983 – Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
• 1983 – Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player
• 1984 – Benny Dayal, Indian singer
• 1985 – Travis Zajac, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Giuliana Marino, German glamor model
• 1986 – Robert Pattinson, English actor, musician and model
• 1986 – Alexander Rybak, Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest winner
• 1986 – Scott Sutter, English footballer
• 1987 – Hunter Parrish, American actor
• 1987 – Carrie Prejean, American beauty pageant contestant
• 1987 – Charlotte Wessels, Dutch singer (Delain)
• 1988 – Casey Donovan, Australian singer
• 1993 – Debby Ryan, American actress
• 1993 – Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer

Deaths

• 1162 – Géza II of Hungary (b. 1130)
• 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)
• 1809 – Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London (b. 1731)
• 1832 – Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
• 1835 – John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)
• 1866 – Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
• 1871 – Daniel Auber, French composer (b. 1782)
• 1884 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
• 1885 – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
• 1901 – Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist and literary critic (b. 1851)
• 1903 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (b. 1864)
• 1916 – Sholom Aleichem, Russian author (b. 1859)
• 1921 – Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848)
• 1925 – Boris Savinkov, Russian writer and terrorist (b. 1879)
• 1926 – Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
• 1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1861)
• 1937 – Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
• 1938 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1945 – Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895)
• 1957 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (b. 1886)
• 1961 – Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1962 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (b. 1893)
• 1963 – Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (b. 1885)
• 1972 – Dan Blocker, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1974 – Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (b. 1902)
• 1975 – Bob Wills, American musician (b. 1905)
• 1977 – Mickey Spillane, Irish-American gangster (b. 1934)
• 1985 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1988 – Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
• 1992 – F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Duncan Hamilton, British racing driver (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
• 2000 – Paul Bartel, American actor (b. 1938)
• 2000 – Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1951)
• 2001 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
• 2001 – Jason Miller, American playwright (b. 1939)
• 2002 – Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
• 2002 – Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (b. 1925)
• 2005 – George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
• 2005 – Eddie Barclay, French record producer (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (b. 1949)
• 2008 – Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Ron Stone, American television reporter (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer, member of the Rabbinical Court of the Edah HaChareidis, Jerusalem
• 2009 – Frank Aletter, American character actor (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances

• Commemoration of Julian of Norwich (Roman Catholic).
• Roman Empire – Feast of the Lemures (See Lemures).
• Abbotsbury Garland Day, Dorset, England.
• Rotuma Day in Fiji.
• Our Lady of Fatima

Saints of the Christian Church:

• Abban the Hermit
• Saint Servatus
• Not Fancy's Birthday
• Saint Robert Bellarmine
• Saint Gerald of Villamagna
• Saint John the Silent
• Saint Glyceria

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. ~ William Faulkner

• selected by Kalki

2005

It behoved that there should be sin — but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. ~ Julian of Norwich (her famous visions occurred on 13 May 1373)

• selected by Kalki

2006

"Fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water'" do not matter. "I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. ~ Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (born 13 May 1937)

• selected by Kalki

2007

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~ Washington Irving (Mother's Day U.S., Canada)

• proposed by Jimmy McManus

2008

Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsaara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty. ~ Roger Zelazny in Lord of Light

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid. ~ Stephen Colbert (born May 13, 1964)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2010

Suggestions

I made a great discovery. I don't believe in anything anymore. Objects do not exist for me, except that there is a harmonious relationship among them, and also between them and myself. When one reaches this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual void. This was everything becomes possible, everything becomes legitimate, and life is a perpetual revelation. This is true song. ~ Georges Braque (born 1882-05-13)

• 3 Aphaia
• 3 Kalki 00:01, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3. This quote was unsourced. I sourced it and replaced the unsourced version in the article. The quote now reads: "I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them or between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence — what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry." My vote is then for the sourced quote. - InvisibleSun 07:20, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Either it possesses a certain element of irrationality itself, like living things, or it is an intelligence of such an order that some of its processes only seem irrational to lesser beings. Either explanation amounts to the same from a practical standpoint. ~ Roger Zelazny Prince of Chaos

• 3 Aphaia
• 3 Kalki 00:01, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2. What is the "it" in the first sentence? - InvisibleSun 07:20, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

He played tune after forbidden tune, and the professional musicians put professional expressions of scorn upon their faces; but beneath the table several feet were tapping in slow time with the music. ~ Roger Zelazny in Lord of Light

• 3 Kalki 20:26, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Things pass, but the essence remains. You sit, therefore, in the midst of a dream. Essence dreams it a dream of form. Forms pass, but the essence remains, dreaming new dreams. Man names these dreams and thinks to have captured the essence, not knowing that he invokes the unreal. These stones, these walls, these bodies you see seated about you are poppies and water and the sun. They are the dreams of the Nameless. ~ Roger Zelazny in Lord of Light

• 3 Kalki 20:26, 12 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:17, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Always dying, never dead;
Ever ending, never ended;
Loathed in darkness,
Clothed in light,
He comes, to end a world,
As morning ends the night.
~ Roger Zelazny in Lord of Light

• 3 Kalki 20:26, 12 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

The thing that has never happened before is still happening. It is still a miracle. ~ Roger Zelazny in Lord of Light

• 3 Kalki 20:26, 12 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:17, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it. ~ Julian of Norwich

• 3 Kalki 00:04, 13 May 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love. ~ Julian of Norwich

• 3 Kalki 00:04, 13 May 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end. ~ Julian of Norwich

• 3 Kalki 00:04, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity. ~ Julian of Norwich

• 3 Kalki 00:04, 13 May 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

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Articles detailing events that are related to May 13. This may include the release of games or systems, the founding of a video game related company or some other important event.

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Game releases

• 2004
  • Espgaluda for the PlayStation 2 in Japan

• 2001
  • The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages for the Game Boy Advance in North America
  • The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons for the Game Boy Advance in North America

From Familypedia

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.

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, her half-brother.
• 1619 - Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
• 1648 - Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi was 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).
• 1787 - Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts (First Fleet) 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, 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 Fátima, Portugal.^[1]
• 1917 - The Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, is consecrated Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV.
• 1929 - The first suicidal person jumps off of the Statue of Liberty.
• 1939 - The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield. The station later became WDRC-FM.
• 1940 - World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Churchill makes his "blood" 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.
• 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.
• 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 - Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1969 - Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the May 13 Incident.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1980 - An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County. 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 was rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery, and managed to survive.
• 1985 - Philadelphia police storm MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
• 1989 - Large groups of students occupied Tiananmen Square and began a hunger strike. See Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2000 - In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
• 2001 - Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms coalition wins the Italian general elections.
• 2005 - Malcolm Glazer completes a hostile takeover of Manchester United for $1.4 billion.
• 2005 - The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
• 2006 - 2006 São 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.
• 2007 - Republic Protests in Turkey

Births

• 1024 - Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
• 1254 -Maria of Brabant, queen of France (d. 1321)
• 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)
• 1730 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1782)
• 1742 - Archduchess Maria Christina (d. 1798)
• 1753 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)
• 1792 - Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
• 1794 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
• 1795 - Gérard 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 physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1932)
• 1882 - Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
• 1883 - Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (d. 1962)
• 1894 - Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972)
• 1898 - Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (d. 2007)
• 1907 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)
• 1911 - Robert Middleton, American film and television actor (d. 1977)
• 1912 - Gil Evans, Canadian musician (d. 1988)
• 1912 - Judah Nadich, American rabbi (d. 2007)
• 1913 - William R. Tolbert, Liberian president (d. 1980)
• 1913 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985)
• 1914 - Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
• 1918 - T. Balasaraswati, Bharatanatyam dancer (d.1984)
• 1920 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
• 1922 - Michael Ainsworth, British cricketer (d. 1978)
• 1923 - Beatrice Arthur, American actress
• 1924 - Harry Schwarz, South African MP and Ambassador to the US
• 1926 - Wallace Breem, British author
• 1927 - Herbert Ross, American director (d. 2001)
• 1928 - Édouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter
• 1928 - Enrique Bolaños, President of Nicaragua
• 1928 - Jim Shoulders, Champion Rodeo Cowboy
• 1930 - Mike Gravel, Former Democratic Senator of Alaska and 2008 Presidential Candidate
• 1930 - José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish writer
• 1931 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (d. 1978)
• 1934 - Leon Wagner, baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1935 - Dominic Cossa, American baritone
• 1937 - Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist
• 1937 - Roger Zelazny, American author (d. 1995)
• 1937 - Trevor Baylis, English inventor of the wind-up radio
• 1937 - Zohra Lampert, American actress
• 1938 - Laurent Beaudoin, French Canadian businessman (Bombardier)
• 1938 - Giuliano Amato, Italian politician
• 1939 - Harvey Keitel, American actor
• 1940 - Bruce Chatwin, British writer (d. 1989)
• 1941 - Senta Berger, Austrian actress
• 1941 - Joe Brown, British singer
• 1941 - Ritchie Valens, American singer (d. 1959)
• 1941 - Jody Conradt, American collage basketball coach
• 1943 - Mary Wells, American singer (d. 1992)
• 1944 - Armistead Maupin, American author
• 1947 - Stephen R. Donaldson, American author
• 1949 - Zoë Wanamaker, English-American actress
• 1950 - Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician
• 1950 - Danny Kirwan, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
• 1951 - Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 1951 - Paul Thompson, British rock drummer (Roxy Music)
• 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, and producer
• 1957 - Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer (Ring, Dark Water)
• 1957 - Andrea Klump, German terrorist
• 1961 - Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
• 1962 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003)
• 1962 - Kathleen Jamie, Scottish poet
• 1963 - Wally Masur, Australian former tennis player
• 1964 - Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor
• 1964 - Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
• 1964 - Tom Verica, American actor
• 1965 - José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (d. 2006)
• 1965 - Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian
• 1965 - Tasmin Little, English violinist
• 1965 - Lari White, American country music singer
• 1966 - Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & the Blowfish)
• 1966 - Nikos Aliagas, Greek TV show host
• 1966 - Kamen Vodenicharov, Bulgarian entertainer
• 1967 - Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death, Control Denied) (d. 2001)
• 1967 - Melanie Thornton, African American German pop singer, former member of La Bouche. (d. 2001)
• 1968 - Alison Goldfrapp, English musician
• 1968 - Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997)
• 1969 - André Schmechta, German musician (X Marks the Pedwalk)
• 1976 - Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer
• 1977 - Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer
• 1977 - Neil Hopkins, American actor
• 1977 - Samantha Morton, English actress
• 1978 - Mike Bibby, American basketball player
• 1978 - Ryan Bukvich, American baseball player
• 1978 - Barry Zito, American baseball player
• 1979 - Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
• 1980 - Waka Inoue, Japanese gravure idol and actress
• 1980 - Mau Marcelo, Filipino singer
• 1981 - Jimmy Yang, American wrestler
• 1981 - Sunny Leone, Canadian model
• 1981 - Rebecka Liljeberg, Swedish actress
• 1982 - Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol
• 1982 - Oguchi Onyewu, American footballer
• 1983 - Casey Donovan, Australian singer
• 1983 - Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
• 1983 - Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
• 1985 - Travis Zajac, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 - Robert Pattinson, English actor
• 1986 - Scott Sutter, Swiss footballer
• 1987 - Hunter Parrish, American actor

Deaths

• 1162 - Géza II of Hungary
• 1176 - Matthias I (b. 1119)
• 1312 - Theobald II (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 (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)
• 1866 - Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
• 1871 - Daniel Auber, French composer (b. 1782)
• 1884 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
• 1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
• 1901 - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist and literary critic (b. 1851)
• 1916 - Sholom Aleichem, Russian author (b. 1859)
• 1921 - Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848)
• 1925 - Boris Savinkov, Russian writer and terrorist (b. 1879)
• 1926 - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
• 1930 - Fridtjof Nansen, Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1861)
• 1937 - Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
• 1938 - Charles Edouard Guillaume, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1945 - Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895)
• 1961 - Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1962 - Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (b. 1893)
• 1963 - Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (b. 1885)
• 1972 - Dan Blocker, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1974 - Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (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)
• 1994 - Duncan Hamilton, British racing driver (b. 1920)
• 1999 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
• 2000 - Paul Bartel, American actor (b. 1938)
• 2001 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
• 2001 - Jason Miller, American playwright (b. 1939)
• 2005 - George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
• 2005 - Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
• 2005 - Eddie Barclay, French record producer (Barclay Records) (b. 1921)
• 2006 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
• 2006 - Johnnie Wilder, American singer (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances

• Commemoration of Julian of Norwich (Anglican).
• Roman Empire - Feast of the Lemures (See Larvae).
• Abbotsbury Garland Day, Dorset, England.
• Rotuma Day in Fiji.

Liturgical Feast days

• Our Lady of Fatima

Saints of the Christian Church:

• Abban the Hermit ^[2]
• Saint Andrew Fournet
• Saint Servatus
• Saint Robert Bellarmine
• Saint Gerald of Villamagna
• Saint John the Silent

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada