About May 13
May 13, 2024 is the 134th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 232 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 261 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 13
- 1373 –Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love.
- 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.
- 1648 –Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
- 1780 –The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
- 1846 –Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
- 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.
- 1888 –With the passage of the Lei Áurea (“Golden Law”), Brazil abolishes slavery.
- 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. Winston Churchill makes his “blood, toil, tears, and sweat” speech to the House of Commons.
- 1943 –World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
- 1954 –The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
- 1967 –Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
- 1969 –Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- 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.
- 1992 –Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People’s Republic of China.
- 1996 –Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
- 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.
- 2006 –2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
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