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, 1,715,558,400 seconds 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.
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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 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.
- 1787 –Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the “First Fleet”) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
- 1861 –Pakistan’s (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
- 1912 –The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom.
- 1958 –The trade mark Velcro is registered.
- 1963 –The U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided.
- 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.
- 1985 –Police storm MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
- 1996 –Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
Who were born on May 13?
- 1753 –Lazare Carnot, French general, politician and mathematician (d. 1823)
- 1937 –Trevor Baylis, English inventor
- 1942 –Roger Young, American television director
- 1943 –Kurt Trampedach, Danish artist
- 1950 –Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician
- 1964 –Tom Verica, American actor
- 1965 –Lari White, American country music singer
- 1966 –Kamen Vodenicharov, Bulgarian entertainer
- 1977 –Robby Hammock, American baseball player
- 1986 –Scott Sutter, English footballer
Who died on May 13?
- 1573 –Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
- 1742 –Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
- 1807 –Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)
- 1866 –Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
- 1937 –Ekaterina Geladze, Georgian mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
- 1945 –Tubby Hall, American jazz drummer (b. 1895)
- 2005 –Eddie Barclay, French record producer (b. 1921)
- 2005 –Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
- 2006 –Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
- 2011 –Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
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