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
- 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.
- 1779 –War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
- 1787 –Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the “First Fleet”) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
- 1830 –Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a “proclamation of neutrality” which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
- 1861 –The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
- 1880 –In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
- 1888 –With the passage of the Lei Áurea (“Golden Law”), Brazil abolishes slavery.
- 1917 –Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
- 1943 –World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
- 1948 –1948 Arab-Israeli War: the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
- 1958 –During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon’s car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2000 –In Enschede, Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
- 2005 –The Binh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
- 2006 –2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
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