What happened this day in history May 13

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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