About May 13
May 13, 2023 is the 133rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 232 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 273 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 13
- 1497 –Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
- 1619 –Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1861 –Pakistan’s (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
- 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.
- 1909 –The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
- 1912 –The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom.
- 1923 –Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified.
- 1950 –The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
- 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.
- 1969 –Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- 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.
- 1998 –Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
- 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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