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Today in History

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535May 13St Agapitus I began his reign as Catholic Pope
609May 13Pope Boniface I turned Roman Pantheon into Catholic church.
1110May 13Crusaders marched into Beirut causing a bloodbath.
1494May 13Columbus found the natives on Jamaica hostile and left for Cuba.
1497May 13Pope Alexander VI excommunicated Girolamo Savonarola for heresy. In Florence the Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) had led the Feb 7 burning of musical instruments, books and priceless works of art. He preached against corruption in the Church and civil government.
1559May 13Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz was burned in Basel.
1568May 13Mary Queen of Scots was defeated by English at battle of Langside, south of Glasgow.
1607May 13English colonists landed near the James River in Virginia. They went shore the next day and founded a colony named Jamestown. In 1996 archeologist discovered the original Jamestown Fort and the remains of one settler, a young white male who died a violent death. In 2003 David A. Price authored “Love and Hate in Jamestown.”
1619May 13Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (b.1547), Dutch lands advocate, was beheaded.
1637May 13Cardinal Richelieu of France created the table knife.
1643May 13Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists.
1648May 13Margaret Jones of Plymouth was found guilty of witchcraft and was sentenced to be hanged by the neck.
1717May 13Maria Theresa was born in Vienna. She later became Archduchess of Austria, a Queen of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, and a Holy Roman Empress.
1729May 13Henry William Stiegel, early American glassmaker, was born.
1730May 13Marquess of Rockingham, British Prime Minister from 1765 to 1766 and 1782, was born.
1732May 13Theodor Schwarzkopf (72), composer, died.
1761May 13Adrian Loosjes Pzn (1818, Dutch publisher, writer (Mauritius Lijnslager), was born.
1767May 13Mozart’s opera “Apollo et Hyacinthus,” premiered in Salzburg.
1776May 13Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer, was born.
1777May 13University library at Vienna opened.
1779May 13The War of Bavarian Succession ended.
1781May 13British Gen. William Phillips died of a fever Petersburg, Va., as his forces confronted the American army under Lafayette. Phillips had commanded the artillery battery whose fire had killed Lafayette’s father at the Battle of Minden (1759).
1792May 13Giovanni-Maria Mastaia-Ferretti, later Pope Pius IX, “Pio Nono” (1846-78), was born at Sinigaglia.
1795May 13Joshua Ratoon Sands (d.1883), Commander (Union Navy), was born.
1812May 13Johann Matthias Sperger (62), composer, died.
1820May 13The opera “Die Jearsbraut” was completed.
1828May 13US passed the Tariff of Abominations.
1835May 13John Nash, British town planner, architect (Regent’s Park), died.
1840May 13Alphonse Daudet, writer, was born.
1842May 13Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan was born in London. He collaborated with Sir William Gilbert in writing 14 comic operas that included “HMS Pinafore.”
1856May 13Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art, was born.
1857May 13Ronald Ross, bacteriologist, was born.
1861May 13Britain declared its neutrality in the American Civil War.
1864May 13Union soldier William Christman became the first US soldier to be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. His death was due to measles.
1867May 13Frank Brangwyn, painter, muralist, cartoonist (Willam Morris), was born in Wales.
1868May 13Paolo Gallico, composer, was born.
1874May 13Pope Pius IX issued the encyclical “On the Greek-Ruthenian rite.”
1877May 13Cesar Franck’s “Lesson Eolides,” premiered.
1882May 13Georges Braque (d.1963, French cubist painter, was born in Argenteuil, near Paris. He said of his work that: “The aim is not to reconstitute an anecdotal fact, but to constitute a pictorial fact.” He was shot in the head during WW I and had his head drilled to relieve the pressure. His “Billiard Tables” series was painted between 1944 and 1949.
1884May 13The Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) was founded.
1888May 13DeWolf Hopper 1st recited “Casey at the Bat.”
1900May 13Jos Panhuysen, author (Pornographer), was born.
1903May 13The Dewey Memorial in Union Square, San Francisco, was dedicated by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt. Robert Aitken sculpted the 12-foot statue of Victory that stood atop an 83-foot column. Alma deBretteville, later Alma Spreckels, had posed as the model.
1907May 13Daphne du Maurier (d.1989), author (Rebecca), was born in England.
1909May 13A. Kopff discovered asteroid #681, Gorgo.
1911May 13NY Giant Fred Merkle was 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st).
1912May 13Gil Evans, jazz pianist and composer, was born.
1913May 13The first 4 engine aircraft was built & flown by Igor Sikorsky of Russia.
1914May 13Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949, was born in Lafayette, Ala. His boxing record was 63-3 with 49 knock-outs.
1916May 13The 1st US observance of Indian (Native American) Day. [see Sep 27]
1917May 13Ernest Bloch (1880-1959), Swiss composer, premiered his work “Schelomo.”
1918May 13The first US airmail stamps, featuring a picture of an airplane, were introduced. On some of the initial stamps the airplane was printed upside down; the “inverted Jenny,” as it came to be called, became a collector’s item. One sheet of 100 stamps got by inspectors.
1922May 13In San Francisco the 2,300-seat Loew’s Warfield Theater opened on Market St.
1930May 13A farmer was killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas. It was the only known fatality due to hail.
1927May 13Clive Barnes, drama critic (NY Times, NY Post), was born.
1930May 13A farmer was killed in a hailstorm near Lubbock, Texas. His death became the only US death officially attributed to hail.
1931May 13Jim Jones (d.1978), leader of religious community in Jonestown, Guyana, was born in Crete, Ind. In 1978 he led 900 of his followers to mass suicide.
1934May 13C. Jackson discovered asteroid #1320, Impala.
1935May 13David T. Wilkinson (d.2002), physicist, was born in Hillsdale, Mich. He became the driving force behind the 1989 Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite. It provided evidence for the “Big Bang” that spawned the universe 10-20 billion years ago.
1937May 13Judith Somogi, conductor, was born in NYC.
1939May 13Harvey Keitel, actor (Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs), was born.
1940May 13Bruce Chatwin, travel writer (Patagonia), was born.
1941May 13Ritchie Valens, singer (Donna, La Bamba), was born.
1942May 13A helicopter made its 1st cross-country flight.
1944May 13Allied forces in Italy broke through the German Gustav Line into the Liri Valley.
1945May 13US troops conquered Dakeshi, Okinawa.
1946May 13US condemned 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death.
1947May 13The US Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions.
1949May 13The 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, made its 1st test flight.
1950May 13Diner’s Club issued its 1st credit cards.
1952May 13Minor-league pitcher Ron Necciai struck out 27 in 9-innings.
1954May 13President Eisenhower signed into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act.
1955May 13Mickey Mantle hit 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463′.
1957May 13Jean Peters (d.2000 at 73), actress, married Howard Hughes (51) in Tonopah, Nev.
1958May 13Stan Musial made hit # 3000.
1960May 13Phillies lost their 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
1961May 13Dennis Rodman, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls), was born.
1965May 13Rolling Stones recorded “Satisfaction,”
1966May 13Federal education funding was denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
1967May 13NY Yankee Mickey Mantle (b.1931) hit career HR #500 off Stu Miller.
1968May 13Peace talks between the U.S. and North Vietnam began in Paris.
1969May 13In Malaysia deadly race riots took place in Kuala Lumpur.
1972May 13Milwaukee Brewers beat Minn. Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings. The game had started the evening of May 12.
1973May 13Tennis hustler Bobby Riggs (1918-1995) beat Margaret Smith Court (b.1942) in a Mother’s Day match in California.
1975May 13Jonas Rimsa (b.1903), Lithuania-born artist, died in Santa Monica.
1976May 13In game 6 the NY Nets beat the Denver Nuggets in 9th & final American Basketball Association (ABA) championship, 4 games to 2.
1978May 13The last season of “Columbo,” begun in 1971, ended on NBC TV.
1979May 13In Tehran, Iran, the Shah and his family, who had fled in January, were sentenced to death.
1980May 13Ray Knight (b.1952) of the Cincinnati Reds, following an 0-for-15 slump, hit 2 home runs in the 5th inning vs. NY Mets.
1981May 13John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca. The shots hit the pope’s hand and penetrated his abdomen. John Paul forgave Agca 4 days later. In 2006 an Italian report said the Soviet Union was behind the attempted assassination.
1982May 13Soyuz T-5 was launched at Baikonur. Berezovoi & Lebedev spent the next 211 days in space.
1987May 13President Reagan said his personal diary confirmed that he’d talked with Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd about Saudi help for the Nicaraguan Contras at a time when Congress banned military aid, but Reagan said he did not solicit secret contributions.
1988May 13The U.S. Senate voted 83-6 to order the U.S. military to enter the war against illegal drug trafficking, approving a plan to give the Navy the power to stop drug boats on the high seas and make arrests.
1989May 13In unusually strong language, President Bush called on the people of Panama and the country’s defense forces to overthrow their military leader, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega.
1991May 13The album “Michael Jackson: The Magic & the Madness” went on sale.
1992May 13President Bush announced a $600 million loan package to help rebuild riot-scarred Los Angeles.
1993May 13The House Ways and Means Committee gave final approval to President Clinton’s deficit-cutting package, containing a tax increase of $246 billion over five years.
1994May 13President Clinton nominated federal appeals Judge Stephen G. Breyer to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Harry A. Blackmun.
1995May 13Army Capt. Lawrence Rockwood was convicted at his court-martial in Fort Drum, N.Y., of conducting an unauthorized investigation of reported human rights abuses at a Haitian prison. Rockwood was dismissed from the military the next day.
1996May 13The Supreme Court unanimously struck down Rhode Island’s ban on ads that list or refer to liquor prices, saying the law violated free-speech rights.
1997May 13At the Oklahoma City bombing trial, prosecutors showed jurors the key to the Ryder truck used to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, alleging Timothy McVeigh left it behind in the same alley he picked to stash his getaway car.
1998May 13Pres. Clinton traveled to Germany to meet with Chancellor Kohl and commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift.
1999May 13The GOP leadership agreed to approve background checks for all buyers at gun shows following angry calls from constituents.
2000May 13In Russia Pres. Putin divided Russia’s 89 regions into 7 federal districts headed by a Kremlin representative.
2001May 13Jason Miller (62), actor-playwright, died in Scranton, Pa.
2002May 13President Bush signed a $190 billion farm bill guaranteeing higher subsidies to growers in Midwestern and Southern states. The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act increased federal payments by some $83 billion over the next 10 years and was passed to help farmers cope with low commodity prices.
2003May 13The US government unveiled a new $20 bill with color added to help thwart counterfeiters. $130 million of counterfeit US money was estimated to be circulating globally. It began circulating in October.
2004May 13The last episode of “Frasier” aired on TV following an 11-year run.
2005May 13The Pentagon proposed the most sweeping changes to its network of military bases in modern history.
2006May 13Former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton helped Tulane University celebrate its “miracle” commencement, nine months after Hurricane Katrina put two-thirds of the campus under water and scattered students to more than 600 schools nationwide.
2007May 13President Bush made a pilgrimage to the site of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia to mark the 400th anniversary of its founding.
2008May 13Hillary Clinton won with 67 percent of the vote in the West Virginia primary.
2009May 13Chicago became the first US city to adopt a ban on the sale of baby bottles and sippy cups containing the chemical BPA.
2010May 13US Attorney General Eric Holder said 3 Pakistani men had been taken into custody in a series of raids related to the May 1 failed Time Square car bombing.
2011May 13California state parks officials said 70 state parks will close starting in September as a result of state budget cuts.
2012May 13In Chicago 4 mothers were pronounced dead this morning after their speeding car hit a support beam of an elevated train track around midnight, crashing with enough force for the vehicle to split in two.
2013May 13President Obama welcomed British PM David Cameron to the White House, where the two leaders discussed issues ranging from economic development to the unfolding conflict in Syria.
2014May 13Pres. Obama met with Uruguay’s Pres. Jose Mujica and lauded trade and commercial ties between the two countries.
Source: Timelines of History 

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