The May 13rd is the 133e Jour of the Année (134e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

14th century

• 1348 : The Jewish district of Barcelona is plundered, in full epidemic of Peste.

16th century

• 1572 : Election of the Pope Gregoire XIII.

17th century

• 1610 : Crown Marie de Médicis, new queen of France.

19th century

• 1813 : The chief Shawnee Tecumseh overcomes the Americans with the battles Maumee River (close to Toledo).

• 1871 : In Italy, the Loi of the Guarantees guarantees the inviolability of the person of the Pape and recognizes his authority on the the Vatican.

20th century

• 1917 : With Fátima (Portugal), three children affirm to have seen the Virgin Mary.

• 1931 : Paul Doumer is elected president of the French Republic .

• 1940 : British the Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes his speech on “ blood, tears, labor and sweat ” at the British Parliament.

• 1952 : Opening of the first session of the Rajya Sabha (in Hindi राज्यसभा) - the the Council of the States - which is the Upper House of the Indian Parlement.

• 1958 :

• Pierre Pflimlin becomes president of the Council in France
• the general Jacques Massu constitutes a Comité of public hello with Algiers to maintain the French Algérie.

• 1961 : With Madrid (Spain), alternate of Santiago Martín Sánchez known as “El Viti”, Spanish Matador.

• 1968 : The manifestation of the left with Paris gathers 800.000 people according to the Syndicat S against 171.000 according to the police force.

• 1981 : Mehmet Ali Ağca tries to assassinate the pope Jean-Paul II with Rome.

• 1990 : With Valladolid (Spain), alternate of David Luguillano, Spanish Matador.

• 1992 : Three Astronaute S of NASA make a success of a double first, while leaving at the same time, and by recovering a satellite wandering, an Intelsat VI.

• 1993 : France, Business of the nursery school of Neuilly; the man who is made call Human Bomb takes a class of nursery school as an hostage with Neuilly-sur-Seine, then is killed by GIPN a few hours later.

• 1999 : The Duma lance impeachment of the president Boris Ieltsine

• 2000 : With Enschede, in the east of the Netherlands, the explosion of a deposit of fireworks shaves a whole district and makes 17 dead, 10 missings and 946 wounded.

21e century

• 2002 : An earthquake of a magnitude 5,2 shakes the area of bay of San Francisco close to Gilroy.

• 2003 :

• remainders of 15  000 corpses of people killed by the mode of Saddam Hussein are discovered in a mass grave in the province of Babylon in Iraq.
• the the United States order the eviction of 7 diplomats Cuba ins concerning cuban mission near UNO with New York and 7 of the section of the cuban interests with Washington, because of inappropriate and unacceptable activities (espionage).
• the new American administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer congédie Ali Shenan Al-Janabi, temporary Minister for Health, judged too near to the Parti Baath Saddam Hussein
• the Canadian firm Bombardier Aéronautique obtains an order of 3,3 billion dollars for the production of regional jets for US Airways.
• First edition of the Parisian Libertarian on Radio Libertarian, more rebel, very beautiful, without god nor Master. (presented by Davou, realized by Mr Frederic)

• 2005 :
• Opening of the lawsuit in Beatification of Jean-Paul II by the Pope Benoit XVI.
• bloody Repression of the demonstrations in Andijan, Ouzbékistan.
• First flight of new the Falcon 900 Dx, new version of the tri-jet of business of Dassault Aviation

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Births

• 1588 : Ole WORM (or Olaus Wormius), Doctor and collector Danish († 1654)
• 1655: Innocent XIII, Pope
• 1669: the Marquis de Pombal, politician Portuguese.
• 1717 : Marie-Therese of Austria, Empress, Queen of Hungary, Queen of Bohemia († 1780)
• 1753: Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, soldier, scientist and policy French, father of Sadi Carnot († August 22nd 1823)
• 1763: Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune, Marshal of Empire († August 2nd 1815)
• 1767: Jean VI of Portugal (Joao VI), king of Portugal († 1826)
• 1792: Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, future pope Black and white IX († February 7th 1878)
• 1795: Gerard Paul Deshayes, geologist and conchyliologist French
• 1840: Alphonse Daudet, writer French († 1897)
• 1882: Georges Directs, painter and sculptor French († 1963)
• 1894: Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic politician († September 15th 1972)
• 1907: Daphne of Maurier, British Novelist († April 19th 1989)
• 1912: Dmitri Baltermants, Russian photographer († in 1990
• 1914: Joe Louis, American Boxer († 1981)
• 1927: Herbert Ross, realizer and American producer († October 9th 2001)
• 1928: Edouard Molinaro, Scenario writer French
• 1931: Gerard Mulliez, manager of French undertaking
• 1935: Luciano and Giulana Benetton brother and sister twin phratry having created Benetton
• 1936: Henri Attal, French actor († 2003)
• 1937: Roger Zelazny, American writer († 1995)
• 1939: Harvey Keitel, American Actor
• 1941: Ritchie Valens, Type-setter and American Singer († 1959)
• 1942: Vladimir Djanibekov, Ukrainian cosmonaut
• 1943:
• Hilton McConnico, American Artist
• Anne Pingeot, partner of François Mitterrand and mother of her daughter Mazarine Pingeot
• 1944: Armistead Maupin, American writer
• 1947: Laurent Cabrol, man of TV and radio operator French
• 1948: Daniel Russo, French actor
• 1949: Zoë Wanamaker, British actress
• 1950:
• Stevie Wonder, American singer
• Peter Gabriel, British singer, ex-leader of the group Genesis at the beginning of its formation
• 1956
• Christine Bravo, stimulating Frenchwoman
• Alexandr Kaleri, Russian cosmonaut
• 1957:
• Claudie Haigneré, Spationaut French
• Jean-Yves Lafesse, Humoriste French
• 1961:
• Refusals Rodman, American player of Basketball
• Stephen Colbert, humorist and American organizer
• Ronnie Coleman, American body-builder
• 1969: Nikos Aliagas, French tele presenter of Greek origin
• 1973: Franck Dumoulin, sportsman (gunner) French
• 1983: Grégory Lemarchal, Singer French († April 30th, 2007)
• 1985: Javier Balboa, football player evolving/moving with the Real Madrid
• 1986: Pattinson Robert, English actor

Death

• 1230 : Casimir Ier d' Opole, Duke of Opole and Racibórz of 1211 with 1230. (° 1178 or 1179)
• 1646: Marie-Anne of Austria, Infant E of Spain. (° August 18th 1606)
• 1832: Georges Vat, Paléontologiste and Naturalist French (° 1769)
• 1839:
• Joseph Fesch, Archbishop of Lyon (° 1763)
• François Lamarque, avovat and politician French. (° November 2nd 1753)
• 1860: Christian Gmelin, German chemist (° 1792)
• 1861: William Henry Fitton British geologist (° 1780)
• 1922: Varelito (Manual Varé García), Spanish Matador (° September 29th 1893).
• 1939 : Stanisław Leśniewski, mathematician and philosopher Polish (° March 30th 1886)
• 1961: Gary Cooper, American Actor (° 1901)
• 1968: Robert Burks, American director of the photography. (° July 4th 1909)
• 1988: Chet Baker, Trumpet player of American Jazz (° 1929)
• 1999: Gene Sarazen, American Golfeur. (° February 27th 1902)
• 2001: R.K. Narayan, Indian writer of English language. (° October 10th 1907)
• 2005: Eddie Barclay, Music producer French. (° January 26th 1921)

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Agnes of Poitiers († 588), first abbess of Holy-Cross
• Disciole of Poitiers († 583), moniale
• Were used as Tongres († 384), bishop
• Rolende († 774), virgin

Orthodoxe saint

• Macaire de Kanev († 1678), archimandrite martyr

See too

• May 13rd in sport
• May 13rd in the railroads

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