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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 30, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 476,544 hours 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 ‘hectatriacontatetragon’ day.
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 261 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 4,161 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 13 Historical Events
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.
1939 –
The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
1951 –
The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
1958 –
The trade mark Velcro is registered.
1980 –
An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
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 –
Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
2006 –
2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
Who were born on May 13?
1840 –
Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (d. 1897)
1928 –
Jim Shoulders, American rodeo cowboy (d. 2007)
1935 –
Dominic Cossa, American baritone
1938 –
Laurent Beaudoin, French/Canadian businessman
1950 –
Manning Marable, American academic and author (d. 2011)
1950 –
Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician
1951 –
Paul Thompson, British rock drummer (Roxy Music)
1957 –
Andrea Klump, German Red Army Faction terrorist
1958 –
Frances Barber, British actress
1967 –
Melanie Thornton, American pop singer (La Bouche) (d. 2001)
Who died on May 13?
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)
1885 –
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
1926 –
Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
1937 –
Ekaterina Geladze, Georgian mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
1947 –
Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet (b. 1926)
1972 –
Dan Blocker, American actor (b. 1928)
2002 –
Clinton Davis, American artist (b. 1918)
2009 –
Frank Aletter, American character actor (b. 1926)
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