Today in
History ~ May 13
Leprechaun Day
Events
0609 - Pope Boniface I turns Roman Pantheon into Catholic church
1110 - Crusaders march into Beirut, causing a bloodbath
1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola
1559 - Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel
1568 - Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by English at battle of Langside [H]
1637 - Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife
1643 - Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists
1767 - Mozart's opera "Apollo et Hyacinthus," premieres in Salzburg
1777 - University library at Vienna opens
1779 - War of Bavarian Succession ends
1787 - Arthur Phillip sets sail with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay, Australia
1828 - US passes Tariff of Abominations
1835 - 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii is established.
1846 - The United States declared that a state of war already existed against
Mexico, declares war, 2 months after fighting begins
1861 - Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality regarding US Civil War
1864 - -16] Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Resaca Georgia
1877 - Cesar Franck's "Lesson Eolides," premieres
1884 - Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded
1888 - DeWolf Hopper 1st recited "Casey at Bat"
1888: - Lei Aurea Princess Isabel of Brazil signed the "Lei Aurea" (Golden Law) which abolished slavery
1912 - Royal Flying Corps forms in England
1913 - 1st 4 engine aircraft built & flown (Igor Sikorsky of Russia)
1916 - 1st observance of Indian American Day
1917 - 1st supernatural appearance of "Mary" three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.
1917 - Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo," premieres
1918 - The "Inter-Allied Independent Bomber Force" of the Royal Air Force (RAF) was created.
1918 - The first U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of an airplane, were introduced. (On some of the stamps, the airplane was printed upside-down, making them collector's items.)
1927 - "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
1930 - Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas -- Only known fatality due to hail
1934 - Great dustbowl storm
1939 - SS St Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives
1940 - British bomb factory at Breda
1940 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England
1940 - In his first speech as prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill told the House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
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1941 - Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany
1942 - Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight
1943 - Battle for North Africa Ends
1943 - German & Italian forces in Africa surrender
1945 - US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa
1946 - US condemns 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
1947 - Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
1949 - 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its 1st test flight
1950 - Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards
1952 - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes premier of India
1954 - "Pajama Game" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1063 performances
1954 - Labour Party wins British municipal elections
1954 - President Eisenhower signed into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act.
1954 - The musical play "The Pajama Game" opened on Broadway.
1958 - French settlers riot against French army in Algeria
1958 - Jordan & Iraq form Arab Federation
1958 - Vice President Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
1965 - Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel
1966 - Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1968 - 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle & Pompidou
1970 - Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres
1979 - Shah & family sentenced to death in Teheran
1981 - Pope John Paul II was shot twice at close range and seriously wounded while riding in an open car at St. Peter's Square in Rome by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali
Agca. [H]
1982 - Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
1985 - 11 people died when a Philadelphia police helicopter bombed the fortified house of a radical organization, MOVE, to end a 24-hour siege. The ensuing fire destroyed 53 homes.
1989 - Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
1989 - President Bush called for the overthrow of Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega.
1991 - Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
1991 - South African activist Winnie Mandela was convicted of being an accessory in the assault of four youths who had been kidnapped and taken to her Soweto, South Africa, home in 1988.
1992 - A trio of astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour captured a wayward Intelsat-6 communications satellite during the first-ever three-person
spacewalk.
1992 - President Bush announced a $600 million loan package to help rebuild riot-scarred Los Angeles.
1993 - A jury in Austin, Texas, found a man guilty of rape, despite his claims that his victim consented by insisting he wear a condom.
1994 - President Clinton nominated Judge Stephen Breyer to succeed Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1996 - OJ Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict
1997 - At 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'd picked to stash his getaway car.
1998 - As India conducted more nuclear test blasts, President Clinton announced he would impose economic sanctions against New Delhi as required by the 1994 Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act.
2001 - Basque nationalists won a key election in Spain's semiautonomous Basque region. The center-right won Italy's parliamentary elections, setting the stage for the return to power of media magnate Silvio
Berlusconi).
Birthdays
Today
1717 - Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria (Wife of emperor Franz I)
1729 - Henry William (Baron) Stiegel, early American glassmaker
1761 - Adrian Loosjes Pzn, publisher/writer (Mauritius Lijnslager)
1776 - Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer
1792 - Pius IX "Pio Nono", [Giovanni-Maria Mastai-Ferretti], Pope (1846-78)
1795 - Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
1840 - Alphonse Daudet, writer
1842 - Sir Arthur Sullivan, who collaborated with Sir William Gilbert in writing 14 comic
operas (H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance), was born in London.
1856 - Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote photography as an independent art.
1867 - Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris)
1868 - Paolo Gallico, composer
1882 - Georges F Broque, French cubist painter (Bike)
1884 - Cyrus McCormick (inventor: the grain reaper machine for farming)
1900 - Jos Panhuysen, author (Pornographer)
1907 - Daphne du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Parasites)
1911 - Maxine Sullivan (Marietta Williams) (singer: Loch Lomand, Cockles and Mussels, If I Had a Ribbon Bow; films & stage: Goin' Places, St. Louis Blues, Swingin' the Dream, Midsummer Night's Dream with Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman)
1911 - Robert Middleton (Messer) (actor: Harrad Experiment, The Law and Jake Wade, Court Jester, Desperate Hours, Career)
1914 - Joe Louis (Barrow) ('The Brown Bomber': boxer: world heavyweight champion [1937-1949])
1914 - Johnny Wright (country singer: duo: Johnnie and Jack: Poison Love, Crying Heart Blues; solo: Hello Vietnam)
1923 - Red Garland (jazz musician: reeds, pianist: Alone with the Blues, Red Alone)
1926 - Beatrice Arthur (Bernice Frankel) (actress: The Golden Girls, Maude, Mame)
1927 - Clive Barnes, drama critic (NY Times, NY Post)
1927 - Herbert Ross, director/choreographer (Footloose)
1931 - Jim Jones, pastor, poisoned over 100 in Guyana (Jonestown Massacre)
1933 - Johnny Roseboro (baseball: LA Dodgers catcher)
1936 - Zohra Lampert (actress: Alan & Naomi, Splendor in the Grass)
1937 - Judith Somogi, NYC, conductor
1937 - Roger [Joseph] Zelazny, sci-fi author (6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber)
1939 - Harvey Keitel, actor (Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
1941 - Ritchie Valens (Valenzuela) (singer: Donna, La Bamba; film biography: La
Bamba)
1941 - Senta Berger (actress: See How They Run)
1943 - Mary Wells (singer: Motown star: My Guy, Two Lovers, You Beat Me to the Punch, The One Who Really Loves You)
1946 - Mike Chernoff (hockey)
1950 - Bobby Valentine (baseball: Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves manager)
1950 - Peter Gabriel (singer: group: Genesis; solo songwriter, singer)
1950 - Steveland Morris Hardaway (AKA Stevie Wonder) was born prematurely, on this day.
1961 - Dennis Rodman, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
Famous
deaths
0384 - Servatius/Aravatius, bishop of Tongeren, dies at 65
1619 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded
1732 - Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer, dies at 72
1812 - Johann Matthias Sperger, composer, dies at 62
1835 - John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies
1884 - Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies
1916 - Sholem Aleichem, Yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies
1961 - Gary Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60
2001 - Actor-playwright Jason Miller died in Scranton, Pa., at age 62.
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