This day in history
Today is Monday, May 13, the 134th day of 2024. there are 232 days left in the year.
Birthdays: Actor buck taylor is 86. Actor Harvey Keitel is 85. Author charles baxter is 77. Actor Zoe Wanamaker is 76. Actor franklyn Ajaye is 75. singer stevie Wonder is 74. former Ohio governor John Kasich is 72. producer-writer Alan ball is 67. basketball Hall of famer Dennis rodman is 63. “late show” host stephen colbert is 60. singer Darius rucker of Hootie and the blowfish is 58. senator tom cotton, Arkansas republican, is 47. rock musician Mickey Madden of Maroon 5 is 45. Actor iwan rheon is 39. Actor-writer-director lena Dunham is 38. Actor robert pattinson is 38. Actor candice Accola King is 37. Actor Debby ryan is 31.
▶ In 1607, english colonists arrived by ship at the site of what became the Jamestown settlement in Virginia (the colonists went ashore the next day).
▶ In 1917, three shepherd children reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary near fatima, portugal; it was the first of six such apparitions that the children claimed to have witnessed.
▶ In 1940, in his first speech as british prime minister, Winston churchill told parliament, “i have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
▶ In 1972, 118 people died after fire broke out at the sennichi Department store in Osaka, Japan.
▶ In 1973, in tennis’ first socalled “battle of the sexes,” bobby riggs defeated Margaret court 6-2, 6-1 in ramona, calif. (billie Jean King soundly defeated riggs at the Houston Astrodome in september.)
▶ In 1981, pope John paul ii was shot and seriously wounded in st. peter’s square by turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.
▶ In 1985, a confrontation between philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped a bomb onto the group’s row house, igniting a fire that killed 11 people and destroyed 61 homes.
▶ In 1994, president clinton nominated federal appeals Judge stephen G. breyer to the supreme court to replace retiring Justice Harry A. blackmun; breyer went on to win senate confirmation.
▶ In 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.
▶ In 2020, the Wisconsin supreme court struck down Governor tony evers’s coronavirus stay-at-home order, ruling that his administration had overstepped its authority by extending the order for another month.