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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