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May 13, there are 233 days left in the year.
1568– Mary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to North England.
1846– The United States formally declared war on Mexico after several days of fighting.
1938– Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleans’s jazz classic, When the Saints Go Marching In, on Decca Records.
1940– Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
1973– Tennis male chauvinist Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Smith Court, 6-2, 6-1 in front of a worldwide television audience. He would lose to Billie Jean King later that year.
1981– Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter’s Square, Rome.
Birthdays
1717– Maria Theresa, Austrian archduchess, queen of Bohemia and Hungary, consort of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and dowager empress after the accession of her son, Joseph II.
1729– Henry William Stiegel, iron and glass manufacturer
1842– Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer, HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance
1882– Georges Braque, painter
1914– Joe Louis, boxer, heavyweight champion
1939– Harvey Keitel, actor
1950– Stevie Wonder, singer, composer, producer