What are the important events that happened on May 13? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 13: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 13 is the 133rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 232 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 30, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,118,240 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatriacontatrigon’ day.
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Taurus is the zodiac 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 280 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,526 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 13 Historical 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, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
- 1787 –Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the “First Fleet”) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1917 –Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
- 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.
- 1960 –Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
- 1996 –Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
- 2005 –The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
Who were born on May 13?
- 1717 –Queen Maria Theresa of Hungary and Bohemia, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1780)
- 1792 –Blessed Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
- 1904 –Louis Duffus, South African cricketer (d. 1984)
- 1934 –Leon Wagner, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- 1938 –Giuliano Amato, Italian politician
- 1965 –Tasmin Little, English violinist
- 1966 –Alison Goldfrapp, English musician
- 1968 –Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997)
- 1972 –Stefaan Maene, Belgian swimmer
- 1978 –Ryan Bukvich, American baseball player
Who died on May 13?
- 1835 –John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)
- 1866 –Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
- 1884 –Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
- 1925 –Boris Savinkov, Russian writer and terrorist (b. 1879)
- 1937 –Ekaterina Geladze, Georgian mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
- 1974 –Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (b. 1902)
- 1999 –Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
- 2006 –Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
- 2006 –Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (b. 1949)
- 2009 –Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (b. 1914)
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