13 May
Notable Births
Jaxson Dart
b. 2003
American football player (born 2003)
Javi Guerra (footballer, born 2003)
b. 2003
Spanish footballer
Jabari Smith Jr.
b. 2003
American basketball player (born 2003)
Diego López (footballer, born May 2002)
b. 2002
Spanish footballer
Óscar Mingueza
b. 1999
Spanish footballer (born 1999)
Aníbal Moreno
b. 1999
Argentine footballer (born 1999)
Adrià Pedrosa
b. 1998
Spanish footballer
Luca Zidane
b. 1998
Algerian-French footballer (born 1998)
Nico Hoerner
b. 1997
American baseball player (born 1997)
Percy Tau
b. 1994
South African footballer (born 1994)
Abby Dahlkemper
b. 1993
American soccer player (born 1993)
Romelu Lukaku
b. 1993
Belgian footballer (born 1993)
Debby Ryan
b. 1993
American actress and singer (born 1993)
Morgan Wallen
b. 1993
American country singer (born 1993)
Thievy Bifouma
b. 1992
Congolese-French footballer (born 1992)
Willson Contreras
b. 1992
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1992)
Tyrann Mathieu
b. 1992
American football player (born 1992)
Josh Papali'i
b. 1992
Australia & Samoa international rugby league footballer
Stevie Wonder
b. 1950
American musician (born 1950)
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
b. 1699
Portuguese noble, diplomat and statesman (1699–1782)
Notable Deaths
José Mujica
d. 2025
President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015
Kit Bond
d. 2025
American politician (1939–2025)
Alice Munro
d. 2024
Canadian short story writer (1931–2024)
Cyril Wecht
d. 2024
American forensic pathologist (1931–2024)
Samm-Art Williams
d. 2024
American playwright and screenwriter (1946–2024)
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
d. 2022
President of the United Arab Emirates from 2004 to 2022
Doris Day
d. 2019
American actress and singer (1922–2019)
Unita Blackwell
d. 2019
American civil rights activist (1933–2019)
Earl Averill Jr.
d. 2015
American baseball player (1931–2015)
Nina Otkalenko
d. 2015
Soviet distance runner
Gainan Saidkhuzhin
d. 2015
Soviet cyclist
David Malet Armstrong
d. 2014
Australian philosopher (1926–2014)
Malik Bendjelloul
d. 2014
Swedish film and documentary director
J. F. Coleman
d. 2014
United States Marine Corps officer
Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart
d. 2014
American writer and Neopagan priestess (1948–2014)
Joyce Brothers
d. 2013
American psychologist and columnist (1927–2013)
Jagdish Mali
d. 2013
Indian fashion photographer
Chuck Muncie
d. 2013
American football player (1953–2013)
Donald "Duck" Dunn
d. 2012
American bass guitarist (1941–2012)
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
d. 2012
American Roman Catholic theologian and academic
On This Day in History
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2014
An explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest Turkey kills 301 miners.
Soma mine disaster
2013
American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted abortions, involuntary manslaughter of a woman during an abortion procedure, and other charges.
Kermit Gosnell
2012
Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40.
Cadereyta Jiménez massacre
2011
Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.
2011 Charsadda bombing
2006
São Paulo violence: Rebellions occur in several prisons in Brazil.
2006 São Paulo violence outbreak
2005
Andijan uprising, Uzbekistan: Troops open fire on crowds of protestors after a prison break; at least 187 people were killed according to official estimates.
Andijan massacre
2000
A fireworks storage depot explodes in a residential neighborhood in Enschede, Netherlands, killing 23 people and injuring 950 others.
Enschede fireworks disaster
1999
Kosovo War: NATO bombs the village of Koriša, killing at least 87 people.
Kosovo War
1998
Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
May 1998 Indonesia riots
1998
India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
Pokhran-II
1996
Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
Thunderstorm
1995
Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to ascend Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
Alison Hargreaves
1992
Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
Li Hongzhi
1990
The Dinamo–Red Star riot takes place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia, between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade).
Dinamo–Red Star riot
1989
Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
1985
Police bomb MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
1985 MOVE bombing
1981
Mehmet Ali Ağca 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.
Mehmet Ali Ağca
1980
An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
Fujita scale
1972
A fire occurs in the Sennichi Department Store in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators result in 118 fatalities (many victims leaping to their deaths).
Sennichi Department Store Building fire
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.
The Troubles