Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 13
This is a list of selected May 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Maamme, the Finnish national anthem
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Rotuma Day in Fiji | needs more footnotes |
| 1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason. | refimprove |
| 1638 – Construction began in Delhi on the Red Fort, the residence of the Mughal emperors, now an iconic symbol of India. | refimprove section |
| 1846 – The United States declared war on Mexico after a series of disputes in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, starting the Mexican–American War. | refimprove section |
| 1848 – Maamme, the national anthem of Finland written by German composer Fredrik Pacius and Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, was performed for the first time. | refimprove section |
| 1912 – The Royal Flying Corps, which later became part of the Royal Air Force, was established in the United Kingdom. | needs more footnotes |
| 1917 – Ten-year-old Lúcia Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto reportedly began experiencing a Marian apparition near Fátima, Portugal, now known as Our Lady of Fátima. | refimprove section |
| 1948 – Fifteen Jewish Kibbutz residents of Kfar Etzion were massacred following their surrender after a two-day battle with the Arab Legion and Arab settlers. | refimprove section |
| 1952 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, held its first sitting. | refimprove |
| 1958 – Algerian War: A group of French military officers led 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. | refimprove |
| 1967 – Zakir Husain took office as the first elected Muslim President of India. | refimprove section |
| 1969 – Chinese–Malay race riots began in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, leaving at least 190 people dead, and leading the government to declare a state of emergency and suspend Parliament until 1971. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1373 – English mystic Julian of Norwich recovered from a severe illness, during which she experienced a series of intense visions of Jesus Christ; later she described them in Revelations of Divine Love, the first known English language book written by a woman.
- 1779 – Russian and French mediators negotiated the Treaty of Teschen to end the War of the Bavarian Succession.
- 1861 – The Australian astronomer John Tebbutt discovered the Great Comet of 1861, through whose tail the Earth actually passed through.
- 1909 – The first Giro d'Italia long distance road bicycle racing stage race began in Italy, with Italian professional road racing cyclist Luigi Ganna becoming the eventual winner.
- 1940 – Three days after becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill gave his "blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
- 1972 – The Troubles: A car bomb planted by loyalists exploded outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, beginning two days of gun battles between the British Army, the Irish Republican Army, and the Ulster Volunteer Force.
- 1981 – Pope John Paul II was shot and critically wounded in St Peter's Square, Vatican City.
- 1985 – Eleven members of the American black liberation group MOVE were killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a bomb on their house during a raid.
- 1992 – Li Hongzhi introduced Falun Gong in a public lecture in Changchun, Jilin province, China.
- 1995 – Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of Sherpas or bottled oxygen.
- 2000 – A fireworks factory in Enschede, the Netherlands, exploded, resulting in 22 deaths and approximately €450 million in damage.
- 2005 – Uzbek Interior Ministry and National Security Service troops fired into a crowd of protesters in Andijan, Uzbekistan, killing anywhere from 187, the official count of the government, to a reported 1,500 people.
- 2014 – The worst mining disaster in Turkish history took place when an explosion caused an underground mine fire at a coal mine in Soma, Manisa, leaving 301 people dead.
- Born/died: John Nash (d. 1835) · Arthur Sullivan (b. 1842) · Lorna Hodgkinson (b. 1887)
Notes
- Beatification of Pope John Paul II appears on May 9, so Pope John Paul II assassination attempt should not appear in the same year
- Neville Chamberlain's resignation appears on May 10, so Churchill's speech should not appear in the same year
Ben Carlin
- 1862 – Robert Smalls escaped from slavery in Charleston, South Carolina, by commandeering the CSS Planter and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters to the U.S. blockade.
- 1888 – Princess Isabel of the Empire of Brazil signed the Lei Áurea into law, formally abolishing slavery in Brazil.
- 1913 – Russian-American Igor Sikorsky flew the world's first four-engine fixed-wing aircraft, the Russky Vityaz, which he designed himself.
- 1958 – Australian Ben Carlin (pictured) became the only person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 80,000 km (50,000 mi) by land and sea.
- 2008 – Nine bombs placed by the previously unknown terrorist group Indian Mujahideen exploded in 15 minutes in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, killing 80 and injuring more than 200 people.
Cornelis Schut (b. 1597) · Antonia Ferrín Moreiras (b. 1914) · H. Trendley Dean (d. 1962)