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.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Maamme, the Finnish national anthem
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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. | needs rewrite |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 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. | unreferenced section |
| 1967 – Zakir Husain took office as the first elected Muslim President of India. | multiple issues |
| 1981 – Pope John Paul II was shot and critically wounded in St Peter's Square, Vatican City. | lots of CN tags (8) |
| 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. | confusing |
Eligible
- 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 the tail of which the Earth passed later that year.
- 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.
- 1909 – The first edition of the Giro d'Italia, a long-distance multiple-stage bicycle race, began in Milan, with Italian professional road racing cyclist Luigi Ganna becoming the eventual winner.
- 1913 – The Russian inventor Igor Sikorsky flew the world's first four-engine fixed-wing aircraft, the Russky Vityaz, which he designed himself.
- 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.
- 1958 – The Australian adventurer Ben Carlin 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 the Falun Gong movement 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.
- 2005 – Uzbek Interior Ministry and National Security Service troops fired into a crowd of protesters in Andijan, killing anywhere from 187 to 1,500 people.
- 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.
- Born/died: Cornelis Schut (b. 1597) | John Nash (d. 1835) | Arthur Sullivan (b. 1842) | Kate Marsden (b. 1859) | Lorna Hodgkinson (b. 1887) | Inge Lehmann (b. 1888) | Antonia Ferrín Moreiras (b. 1914) | Ralph Milne (b. 1961) | H. Trendley Dean (d. 1962) | Jagdish Mali (d. 2013)
Notes
- Beatification of Pope John Paul II appears on May 9 and Juan María Fernández y Krohn appears on May 12, so Pope John Paul II assassination attempt should not appear in the same year
- Norway Debate appears on May 7 and Neville Chamberlain's resignation appears on May 10, so Churchill's speech should not appear in the same year
Lahori Gate, the Red Fort's main entrance
- 1373 – English mystic Julian of Norwich recovered from a severe illness, during which she experienced a series of intense visions of Christ, which she later described in the first known English-language book written by a woman.
- 1638 – Construction began on the Red Fort (gate pictured) in Delhi, the main residence of the Mughal emperors, now an iconic symbol of India.
- 1969 – Sino-Malay race riots began in Kuala Lumpur, leaving at least 190 people dead, with the government declaring a state of emergency and suspending the Parliament of Malaysia until 1971.
- 2000 – A fireworks factory in Enschede, Netherlands, exploded, resulting in 23 deaths and approximately €450 million in damage.
- Muhammad VII of Granada (d. 1408)
- Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (b. 1905)
- David Malet Armstrong (d. 2014)