About May 13
May 13, 2025 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.
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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 280 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 13
- 1373 –Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love.
- 1497 –Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
- 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).
- 1780 –The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
- 1804 –Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
- 1861 –The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
- 1888 –With the passage of the Lei Áurea (“Golden Law”), Brazil abolishes slavery.
- 1939 –The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
- 1940 –Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the Nazi invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
- 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 –During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon’s car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
- 1958 –The trade mark Velcro is registered.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1992 –Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People’s Republic of China.
- 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.
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