today.nukz.net: Almanac May 13

Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism.

Events

1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love.
1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
1515 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
1568 – Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
1648 – Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1804 – Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
1846 – Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
1848 – First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
1861 – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
1861 – Pakistan’s (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia.
1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
1909 – The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
1912 – The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom.
1917 – Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
1923 – Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified.
1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the Nazi invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
1941 – World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailovic starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
1950 – The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
1951 – The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
1952 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
1954 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
1958 – The trade mark Velcro is registered.
1958 – May 1958 crisis: a group of French military officers lead 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.
1960 – Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
1963 – The U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided.
1967 – Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
1969 – Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1972 – Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
1972 – The Troubles: a car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.
1980 – An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
1981 – Mehmet Ali Agca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
1985 – Police storm MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
1989 – Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
1992 – Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
1994 – Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
1995 – 33-year-old British mother Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1998 – Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
2000 – In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
2005 – The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2005 – The Binh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
2006 – 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
2008 – The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths.
2011 – the 2011 Charsadda bombing in the Charsadda District of Pakistan two bombs exploded killing 98 and wounding 140.

Births

1024 – Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
1254 – Marie of Brabant, Queen of France(d. 1321)
1588 – Ole Worm, Danish physician (d. 1654)
1638 – Richard Simon, French critic (d. 1712)
1655 – Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
1699 – Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquess of Pombal, Portuguese statesman, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
1712 – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (d. 1772)
1717 – Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1780)
1730 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1782)
1735 – Horace Coignet, French composer (d. 1821)
1742 – Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
1753 – Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)
1759 – Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1824)
1792 – Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
1794 – Louis Léopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
1795 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
1822 – Francis, Duke of Cádiz (d. 1902)
1830 – Zebulon Baird Vance, American politician and military officer, governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)
1840 – Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (d. 1897)
1842 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)
1856 – Tom O'Rourke, American boxing manager (d. 1938)
1857 – Ronald Ross, English physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1932)
1881 – Lima Barreto, Brazilian author (d. 1922)
1882 – Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
1883 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek Pathologist, inventor of the pap smear (d. 1962)
1894 – Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic educator and politician, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972)
1895 – Nandor Fodor, Hungarian psychologist and parapsychologist (d. 1964)
1898 – Justin Tuveri, Italian army soldier (d. 2007)
1904 – Louis Duffus, South African cricketer (d. 1984)
1907 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)
1909 – Ken Darby, American composer, lyricist, and conductor (d. 1992)
1911 – Robert Middleton, American actor (d. 1977)
1911 – Maxine Sullivan, American singer and actress (d. 1987)
1912 – Gil Evans, Canadian pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (d. 1988)
1912 – Judah Nadich, American rabbi (d. 2007)
1913 – William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian politician, 20th President of Liberia (d. 1980)
1914 – Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
1918 – Balasaraswati, Indian dancer (d. 1984)
1920 – Gareth Morris, English flautist (d. 2007)
1922 – Michael Ainsworth, English cricketer (d. 1978)
1922 – Bea Arthur, American actress (d. 2009)
1922 – Otl Aicher, German graphic designer (d. 1991)
1923 – Red Garland, American pianist (Miles Davis Quintet) (d.1984)
1924 – Harry Schwarz, South African politician, lawyer, and diplomat (d. 2010)
1924 – Theodore Mann, American producer and director (d. 2012)
1926 – Wallace Breem, English author (d. 1990)
1927 – Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (d. 1958)
1927 – Herbert Ross, American director (d. 2001)
1928 – Enrique Bolaños, Nicaraguan politician
1928 – Édouard Molinaro, French actor, director, and screenwriter
1928 – Jim Shoulders, American rodeo cowboy (d. 2007)
1930 – Mike Gravel, American politician
1930 – José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish writer
1930 – Vernon Shaw, Dominican politician, 5th President of Dominica
1931 – Jim Jones, American founder and leader of the Peoples Temple (d. 1978)
1933 – John Roseboro, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1934 – Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (d. 2010)
1934 – Leon Wagner, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1935 – Dominic Cossa, American singer
1935 – Teddy Randazzo, American singer-songwriter and composer (The Three Chuckles) (d. 2003)
1936 – Bill Rompkey, Canadian politician
1937 – Trevor Baylis, English stunt man and inventor, invented the wind-up radio
1937 – Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist
1937 – Zohra Lampert, American actress
1937 – Roger Zelazny, American author (d. 1995)
1938 – Giuliano Amato, Italian politician
1938 – Laurent Beaudoin, French-Canadian businessman
1939 – Hildrun Claus, German athlete
1939 – Harvey Keitel, American actor
1940 – Bruce Chatwin, English writer (d. 1989)
1941 – Senta Berger, Austrian actress
1941 – Joe Brown, English singer and musician
1941 – Jody Conradt, American basketball coach
1941 – Ritchie Valens, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959)
1942 – Roger Young, American director
1943 – Kurt Trampedach, Danish artist
1943 – Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
1944 – Armistead Maupin, American author
1945 – Sam Anderson, American actor
1945 – Magic Dick, American musician (The J. Geils Band)
1946 – Waneta Hoyt, American serial killer (d. 1998)
1947 – Edgar Burcksen, Dutch film editor
1949 – Zoë Wanamaker, English-American actress
1950 – Danny Kirwan, English singer-songwriter and musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 – Manning Marable, American educator and author (d. 2011)
1950 – Bobby Valentine, American baseball player and manager
1950 – Stevie Wonder, American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and activist
1951 – Sharon Sayles Belton, American politician
1951 – Paul Thompson, English drummer (Roxy Music and Concrete Blonde)
1951 – James Whale, English radio and television host
1952 – John Kasich, American politician and commentator
1952 – Mary Walsh, Canadian comedian and actress
1954 – Johnny Logan, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer
1956 – Steve Blackwood, American actor
1956 – Richard Madeley, English television presenter and columnist
1956 – Ravi Shankar]], Indian spiritual leader, founded the Art of Living Foundation
1957 – Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, and producer
1957 – Andrea Klump, German Red Army Faction terrorist
1957 – Mar Roxas, Philippine politician
1957 – Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer
1958 – Frances Barber, English actress
1961 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
1962 – Kathleen Jamie, Scottish poet
1962 – Paul McDermott, Australian comedian, actor, writer, and singer (Doug Anthony All Stars)
1962 – Sean McDonough, American sportscaster
1962 – Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003)
1963 – Wally Masur, Australian tennis player
1964 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian, writer, and actor
1964 – Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
1964 – Tom Verica, American actor
1965 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountaineer (d. 2006)
1965 – Tasmin Little, English violinist
1965 – János Marozsán, Hungarian footballer
1965 – Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian
1965 – Lari White, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1966 – Alison Goldfrapp, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Goldfrapp)
1966 – Darius Rucker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hootie & the Blowfish)
1966 – Kamen Vodenicharov, Bulgarian actor, singer, and businessman
1967 – Chuck Schuldiner, American singer-songwriter and musician (Death, Control Denied, and Voodoocult) (d. 2001)
1967 – Melanie Thornton, American-German singer (La Bouche) (d. 2001)
1968 – PMD, American rapper (EPMD
1968 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997)
1968 – Susan Floyd, American actress
1968 – Sonja Zietlow, German television host
1969 – Buckethead, American musician and songwriter (Guns N' Roses, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Praxis, and Deli Creeps)
1969 – Nikos Aliagas, Greek television host
1970 – Doug Evans, American football player
1971 – Imogen Boorman, English actress
1971 – Rob Fredrickson, American football player
1971 – Espen Lind, Norwegian singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Espionage)
1971 – Fana Mokoena, South African actor
1971 – Tom Nalen, American football player
1972 – Pieta van Dishoeck, Dutch rower
1972 – Stefaan Maene, Belgian swimmer
1972 – Darryl Sydor, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Bridgett Riley, American boxer and stuntwoman
1975 – Jamie Allison, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Cristian Bezzi, Italian rugby player
1975 – Itatí Cantoral, Mexican actress
1975 – Brian Geraghty, American actor
1976 – Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer
1976 – Trajan Langdon, American basketball player
1976 – Ana Popovic, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 – Magdalena Walach, Polish actress
1977 – Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer-songwriter
1977 – Anthony Q. Farrell, American writer and actor
1977 – Robby Hammock, American baseball player
1977 – Neil Hopkins, American actor
1977 – Samantha Morton, English actress
1977 – Christopher Ralph, Canadian actor
1977 – Brian Thomas Smith, American actor, comedian, and producer
1978 – Brooke Anderson, American journalist and producer
1978 – Mike Bibby, American basketball player
1978 – Ryan Bukvich, American baseball player
1978 – Germán Magariños, Argentine director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
1978 – Steve Mildenhall, English footballer
1978 – Dilshan Vitharana, Sri Lankan cricketer
1978 – Barry Zito, American baseball player
1979 – Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland
1979 – Michael Madden, American bassist (Maroon 5)
1979 – Lauren Phoenix, Canadian porn actress
1979 – Jenny Winkler, German actress
1980 – Chris Barker, American bassist (Anti-Flag)
1980 – Waka Inoue, Japanese model and actress
1980 – Mau Marcelo, Filipino singer
1980 – L. J. Smith, American football player
1981 – Holger Göpfert, German singer and musician
1981 – Nicolas Jeanjean, French rugby player
1981 – Sunny Leone, Canadian-American porn actress and model
1981 – Rebecka Liljeberg, Swedish actress
1981 – Anne Lindfjeld, Danish model and television host
1981 – Shaun Phillips, American football player
1981 – James Yun, American wrestler and actor
1982 – Albert Crusat, Spanish footballer
1982 – Yoko Kumada, Japanese model and singer
1982 – Oguchi Onyewu, American footballer
1983 – Natalie Cassidy, English actress
1983 – Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player
1983 – Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
1983 – Jacob Reynolds, American actor
1983 – Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
1984 – J. B. Cox, American baseball player
1984 – Benny Dayal, Indian singer
1984 – Liam O'Kane, Irish footballer
1984 – Ginger Orsi, American actress and singer
1985 – Javier Balboa, Equatoguinean footballer
1985 – Jaroslav Halak, Slovak ice hockey player
1985 – Iwan Rheon, Welsh actor and singer
1985 – Travis Zajac, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Lena Dunham, American actress, writer, and director
1986 – Eun-Hee Ji, South Korean golfer
1986 – David Hernandez, American baseball player
1986 – Giuliana Marino, German model
1986 – Robert Pattinson, English actor, model, musician, and producer
1986 – Alexander Rybak, Norwegian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and actor
1986 – Scott Sutter, English footballer
1986 *ndash; Kris Versteeg, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 – Candice Accola, American actress and singer
1987 – Matt Doyle, American actor
1987 – Laura Izibor, Irish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1987 – Mei Kurokawa, Japanese actress and singer
1987 – Hunter Parrish, American actor
1987 – Carrie Prejean, American model and author, Miss California USA 2009
1987 – Marianne Vos, Dutch bicyclist
1988 – Paulo Avelino, Filipino actor, model, and television host
1988 – Casey Donovan, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1989 – P.K. Subban, Canadian ice hockey player
1991 – Francisco Lachowski, Brazilian model
1993 – Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer
1993 – Debby Ryan, American actress and singer
1995 – Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian singer

Deaths

1176 – Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
1312 – Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
1573 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
1619 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
1704 – Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632)
1742 – Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
1807 – Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)
1809 – Beilby Porteus, Anglican reformer and abolitionist, Bishop of London(b. 1731)
1832 – Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
1835 – John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)
1866 – Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
1871 – Daniel Auber, French composer (b. 1782)
1878 – Joseph Henry, American scientist (b. 1797)
1884 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor, founded International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
1885 – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
1901 – Leopoldo Alas, Spanish novelist and critic (b. 1851)
1903 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino philosopher and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
1916 – Sholom Aleichem, Russian author (b. 1859)
1921 – Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848)
1925 – Boris Savinkov, Russian writer and terrorist (b. 1879)
1926 – Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist, and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1861)
1937 – Ekaterina Geladze, Russian mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
1938 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
1941 – Onishiki Uichiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
1945 – Tubby Hall, American jazz drummer (b. 1895)
1947 – Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian-Bengali poet (b. 1926)
1957 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician (b. 1886)
1961 – Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
1962 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (b. 1893)
1963 – Alois Hudal, Austrian-Italian bishop (b. 1885)
1972 – Dan Blocker, American actor (b. 1928)
1974 – Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (b. 1902)
1974 – Arthur J. Burks, American writer (b. 1898)
1975 – Bob Wills, American singer-songwriter, musician, and bandleader (Light Crust Doughboys) (b. 1905)
1977 – Mickey Spillane, Irish-American gangster (b. 1934)
1985 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)
1988 – Chet Baker, American singer and musician (b. 1929)
1992 – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
1994 – Duncan Hamilton, English race car driver (b. 1920)
1999 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
2000 – Paul Bartel, American actor (b. 1938)
2000 – Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler (b. 1951)
2001 – Jason Miller, American playwright (b. 1939)
2001 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
2002 – Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (b. 1925)
2002 – Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
2005 – Eddie Barclay, French record producer, founded Barclay Records (b. 1921)
2005 – George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
2005 – Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
2006 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
2006 – Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (b. 1949)
2008 – Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti political leader, emir of Kuwait (b. 1930)
2008 – Ron Stone, American reporter (b. 1936)
2009 – Frank Aletter, American actor (b. 1926)
2009 – Meir Brandsdorfer, Belgian Rabbi, member of the Rabbinical Court of the Edah HaChareidis (b. 1934)
2009 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (b. 1914)
2011 – Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
2011 – Wallace McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods (b. 1930)
2011 – Bruce Ricker, American documentarian (b. 1942)
2012 – Arsala Rahmani Daulat, Afghan politician, member of the Afghan High Peace Council
2012 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, producer, and actor (Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Blues Brothers, and The Mar-Keys) (b. 1941)
2012 – Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Cuban-American activist, theologian, and educator (b. 1943)
2012 – Lee Richardson, English motorcycle rider (b. 1979)