May 13
1568 - Mary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to North England.
1607 - An English colony was settled at Jamestown in present-day Virginia.
1846 - The United States formally declared war on Mexico after several days of fighting.
1917 - Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.
1938 - Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleans jazz classic, When the Saints Go Marching In, on Decca Records.
1940 - Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
1958 - Vice President Richard Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
1967 - A vault fire at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Culver City, California, destroyed hundreds of the studio’s early films.
1981 - Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter's Square, Rome.
1985 - Philadelphia police dropped an explosive onto the headquarters of the radical group MOVE; 11 people died in the resulting fire.
1994 - President Bill Clinton nominated federal appeals Judge Stephen G. Breyer to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Harry A. Blackmun; Breyer went on to win Senate confirmation.
2002 - President George W. Bush announced that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin would sign a treaty to shrink their countries’ nuclear arsenals by two-thirds.
2003 - The government unveiled a new version of the $20 bill - the first to be colorized in an effort to thwart counterfeiters.
2011 - Two suicide bombers attacked paramilitary police recruits heading home after months of training in northwest Pakistan, killing 87 people in what the Pakistan Taliban called revenge for the U.S. slaying of Osama bin Laden.
2016 - The Obama administration issued a directive requiring public schools to permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.
2020 - Paul Manafort, a former Trump campaign chairman who was convicted as part of the special counsel’s Russia probe, was released from federal prison to serve the rest of his sentence at home due to concerns about the coronavirus.
Birthdays
28 - Debby Ryan (actress)
28 - Morgan Wallen (country singer)
34 - Hunter Parrish (actor)
34 - Candice Accola King (actress)
35 - Robert Pattinson (actor)
35 - Lena Dunham (actress)
36 - Iwan Rheon (actor)
37 - Dawn Harper-Nelson (track & field athlete)
43 - Mike Bibby (basketball player)
44 - Samantha Morton (actress)
46 - Brian Geraghty (actor)
53 - Susan Floyd (actress)
54 - Tish Cyrus (actress)
55 - Darius Rucker (singer)
57 - Tom Verica (actor)
57 - Stephen Colbert (talk show host)
60 - Dennis Rodman (basketball player)
71 - Stevie Wonder (singer)
72 - Franklyn Ajaye (actor)
73 - Zoe Wanamaker (actress)
82 - Harvey Keitel (actor)
83 - Buck Taylor (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 13
1914 - Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis was born in Lafayette, Alabama.
1953 - Willie Mays (New York Giants) and Darryl Spencer (New York Giants) each hit two homeruns and a triple in the same game.
1958 - Stan Musial became the 8th player in major league history to get 3,000 hits.
1967 - Boxing experiments with an octagonal ring in order to avoid corner injuries.
1973 - Tennis male chauvinist Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Smith Court, 6-2, 6-1 in front of a world-wide television audience. (He would lose to Billie Jean King later that year.)
1976 - The New York Nets defeated the Denver Nuggets in six games to win the final ABA championship.
1983 - Reggie Jackson became the first major league player to strike out 2,000 times.
1989 - Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins becomes the 35th player in major league history to hit four doubles in a game.
1568 - Mary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to North England.
1607 - An English colony was settled at Jamestown in present-day Virginia.
1846 - The United States formally declared war on Mexico after several days of fighting.
1917 - Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.
1938 - Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleans jazz classic, When the Saints Go Marching In, on Decca Records.
1940 - Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
1958 - Vice President Richard Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
1967 - A vault fire at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Culver City, California, destroyed hundreds of the studio’s early films.
1981 - Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter's Square, Rome.
1985 - Philadelphia police dropped an explosive onto the headquarters of the radical group MOVE; 11 people died in the resulting fire.
1994 - President Bill Clinton nominated federal appeals Judge Stephen G. Breyer to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Harry A. Blackmun; Breyer went on to win Senate confirmation.
2002 - President George W. Bush announced that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin would sign a treaty to shrink their countries’ nuclear arsenals by two-thirds.
2003 - The government unveiled a new version of the $20 bill - the first to be colorized in an effort to thwart counterfeiters.
2011 - Two suicide bombers attacked paramilitary police recruits heading home after months of training in northwest Pakistan, killing 87 people in what the Pakistan Taliban called revenge for the U.S. slaying of Osama bin Laden.
2016 - The Obama administration issued a directive requiring public schools to permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.
2020 - Paul Manafort, a former Trump campaign chairman who was convicted as part of the special counsel’s Russia probe, was released from federal prison to serve the rest of his sentence at home due to concerns about the coronavirus.
Birthdays
28 - Debby Ryan (actress)
28 - Morgan Wallen (country singer)
34 - Hunter Parrish (actor)
34 - Candice Accola King (actress)
35 - Robert Pattinson (actor)
35 - Lena Dunham (actress)
36 - Iwan Rheon (actor)
37 - Dawn Harper-Nelson (track & field athlete)
43 - Mike Bibby (basketball player)
44 - Samantha Morton (actress)
46 - Brian Geraghty (actor)
53 - Susan Floyd (actress)
54 - Tish Cyrus (actress)
55 - Darius Rucker (singer)
57 - Tom Verica (actor)
57 - Stephen Colbert (talk show host)
60 - Dennis Rodman (basketball player)
71 - Stevie Wonder (singer)
72 - Franklyn Ajaye (actor)
73 - Zoe Wanamaker (actress)
82 - Harvey Keitel (actor)
83 - Buck Taylor (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 13
1914 - Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis was born in Lafayette, Alabama.
1953 - Willie Mays (New York Giants) and Darryl Spencer (New York Giants) each hit two homeruns and a triple in the same game.
1958 - Stan Musial became the 8th player in major league history to get 3,000 hits.
1967 - Boxing experiments with an octagonal ring in order to avoid corner injuries.
1973 - Tennis male chauvinist Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Smith Court, 6-2, 6-1 in front of a world-wide television audience. (He would lose to Billie Jean King later that year.)
1976 - The New York Nets defeated the Denver Nuggets in six games to win the final ABA championship.
1983 - Reggie Jackson became the first major league player to strike out 2,000 times.
1989 - Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins becomes the 35th player in major league history to hit four doubles in a game.
