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May 13, there are 233 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
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1568<\/strong>– Mary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to North England.<\/p>\n 1846<\/strong>– The United States formally declared war on Mexico after several days of fighting.<\/p>\n 1938<\/strong>– Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleans’s jazz classic, When the Saints Go Marching In<\/em>, on Decca Records.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong>– Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong>– 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.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong>– Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter’s Square, Rome.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Birthdays<\/strong><\/p>\n 1717<\/strong>– 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.<\/p>\n 1729<\/strong>– Henry William Stiegel, iron and glass manufacturer<\/p>\n 1842<\/strong>– Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer, HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance<\/em><\/p>\n 1882<\/strong>– Georges Braque, painter<\/p>\n 1914<\/strong>– Joe Louis, boxer, heavyweight champion<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong>– Harvey Keitel, actor<\/p>\n 1950<\/strong>– Stevie Wonder, singer, composer, producer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TMN STAFF May 13, there are 233 days left in the year. 1568– Mary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[106,6131],"class_list":["post-26888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26890,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26888\/revisions\/26890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}