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.
- 1515 –Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
- 1648 –Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
- 1787 –Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the “First Fleet”) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
- 1804 –Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
- 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.
- 1950 –The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
- 1954 –The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
- 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.
- 1963 –The U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided.
- 1985 –Police storm MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
- 1994 –Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
- 1996 –Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
- 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.
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