May 13

Events

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.
1846 - Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
1912 - In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) was established.
1940 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the German invasion in the Netherlands to Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
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.
1960 – Free Speech Movement is born at University of California Berkeley.
1981 - Pope John Paul II is shot and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish gunman.
1985 – Philadelphia police storm the Black militant group MOVE killing six members and five children.

1655 - Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
1717 - Queen Maria Theresa of Hungary and Bohemia, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1780)
1792 - Pope Pius IX, (d. 1878)
1930 – Mike Gravel, Former Democratic Senator of Alaska and 2008 Presidential Candidate
1931 - Jim Jones, American religious cult leader and founder of the Peoples Temple (d. 1978)

1963 - Alois Hudal, bishop, helped German WWII officials escape through Italy. (b. 1885)