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
- 1515 –Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
- 1619 –Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
- 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).
- 1848 –First performance of Finland’s national anthem.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a “proclamation of neutrality” which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
- 1958 –May 1958 crisis: a group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
- 1969 –Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- 1980 –An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
- 1989 –Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
- 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.
- 2005 –The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
- 2008 –The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths.
- 2011 –the 2011 Charsadda bombing in the Charsadda District of Pakistan two bombs exploded killing 98 and wounding 140.
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