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 declared that a state of war existed against Mexico.
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 told the British House of Commons in 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.
1981 - Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.
1985 - Philadelphia police dropped an explosive onto the headquarters of the radical group MOVE; 11 people died in the resulting fire.
1992 - The Falun Gong movement had its beginning as the sect's founder, Li Hongzhi, began publicly lecturing on his spiritual philosophy in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun.
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.
Birthdays
22 - Debby Ryan (actress)
28 - Candice Accola (actress)
29 - Robert Pattinson (actor)
49 - Darius Rucker (singer)
50 - John Anderson (sportscaster)
51 - Stephen Colbert (TV host)
54 - Dennis Rodman (basketball player)
70 - Sam Anderson (actor)
76 - Harvey Keitel (actor)
65 - Stevie Wonder (R&B singer)
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Today in Sports History - May 13
1891 - Kingman won the Kentucky Derby.
1914 - Joe Louis, the heavyweight boxing champion who held the championship for a record 12 years, was born in Lafayette, Alabama.
1953 - Willie Mays and Darryl Spencer of the New York Giants each hit two home runs and a triple in the same game.
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.)
1983 - Reggie Jackson became the first major league player to strike out 2,000 times.
1985 - Carlton Fisk became the fifth catcher in major league history to steal 100 bases.
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 declared that a state of war existed against Mexico.
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 told the British House of Commons in 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.
1981 - Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.
1985 - Philadelphia police dropped an explosive onto the headquarters of the radical group MOVE; 11 people died in the resulting fire.
1992 - The Falun Gong movement had its beginning as the sect's founder, Li Hongzhi, began publicly lecturing on his spiritual philosophy in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun.
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.
Birthdays
22 - Debby Ryan (actress)
28 - Candice Accola (actress)
29 - Robert Pattinson (actor)
49 - Darius Rucker (singer)
50 - John Anderson (sportscaster)
51 - Stephen Colbert (TV host)
54 - Dennis Rodman (basketball player)
70 - Sam Anderson (actor)
76 - Harvey Keitel (actor)
65 - Stevie Wonder (R&B singer)
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Today in Sports History - May 13
1891 - Kingman won the Kentucky Derby.
1914 - Joe Louis, the heavyweight boxing champion who held the championship for a record 12 years, was born in Lafayette, Alabama.
1953 - Willie Mays and Darryl Spencer of the New York Giants each hit two home runs and a triple in the same game.
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.)
1983 - Reggie Jackson became the first major league player to strike out 2,000 times.
1985 - Carlton Fisk became the fifth catcher in major league history to steal 100 bases.
