41st year - Nr 133 Wednesday, 13 May 2026

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41st year - Nr 133 Wednesday, 13 May 2026

13 May / Today's 30 Events:

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(+) 371 years ago Thursday 13th of May 1655 244th Pope Innocentius XIII, originally Michelangelo dei Conti is born in Poli, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 234 years ago Sunday 13th of May 1792 255th Pope Pius IX, originally Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti is born in Senigallia, Marche, Italy.

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(-) 199 years ago Sunday 13th of May 1827 Elise Schmidt is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany.

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(+) 157 years ago Thursday 13th of May 1869 Solicitor and murderer Herbert Rowse Armstrong is born in Newton Abbot, Devon, United Kingdom.

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(+) 144 years ago Saturday 13th of May 1882 Artist Georges Braque is born in Argenteuil, Val d'Oise, France.

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(+) 119 years ago She Was not Rebecca Monday 13th of May 1907 Writer and playwright Daphne du Maurier is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 95 years ago Wednesday 13th of May 1931 Founder and leader of the Peoples Temple Jim James Warren Jones is born in Lynn, Indiana, United States.

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(+) 87 years ago Saturday 13th of May 1939 Actor Harvey Keitel is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 85 years ago Tuesday 13th of May 1941 Singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens, originally Richard Steven Valenzuela is born in Pacoima, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(+) 79 years ago Tuesday 13th of May 1947 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Irmgard Möller is born in Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 76 years ago Saturday 13th of May 1950 Singer-songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder, originally Stevland Hardaway Judkins is born in Saginaw, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 69 years ago Monday 13th of May 1957 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Andrea Martina Klump is born in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany.

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(-) 65 years ago Saturday 13th of May 1961 Actor Gary Cooper, originally Frank James Cooper dies of cancer at the age of 60 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 64 years ago Sunday 13th of May 1962 Abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline dies of a rheumatic heart disease at the age of 52 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 58 years ago Monday 13th of May 1968 Double murderer James Lee Clark is born in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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(x) 57 years ago Tuesday 13th of May 1969 196 die in Sino-Malay race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.

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(+) 54 years ago Saturday 13th of May 1972 Multiple murderer Marion Butler Dudley is born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States.

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(x) 54 years ago Saturday 13th of May 1972 118 die in Sennichi Department Store Building fire in Sennichimae, Osaka, Kinki, Japan. Most of the dead were found in the Playtown Cabaret on the 6th floor. 93 suffered carbon dioxide poisoning, three died from compression injuries in the chest and abdomen (meaning that they were probably trampled to death) and 22 died from jumping.

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(x) 48 years ago Saturday 13th of May 1978 40-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 62. Aktion (lehraktion) in Schloss Prinzendorf, Schloss Straße 1, Prinzendorf an der Zaya, Niederösterreich, Austria.

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(x) 47 years ago Sunday 13th of May 1979 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Installation - 2' in Turfschip, Chasséveld, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. I was hanging with my arms spread and blindfolded in a darkened corridor. To my feet ropes were attached, leading to the door. Each time somebody entered he/she pulled my body towards him/her.

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(x) 45 years ago Wednesday 13th of May 1981 61-year-old Ioannes Paulus II, originally Karol Józef Wojtyła is shot and wounded by 24-year-old Mehmet Ali Ağca in Piazza San Pietro, Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. The Pope was struck four times and suffered severe blood loss.

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(-) 42 years ago Sunday 13th of May 1984 Ngeun Thi 'Peggy' Long is abducted, raped and strangled by serial killer Bobby Joe Long aka The Adman Rapist in Tampa, Florida, United States.

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(-) 41 years ago He Didn't Move Anymore Monday 13th of May 1985 Founder of MOVE black liberation group John Africa, originally Vincent Leaphart is fatally shot during an armed standoff with the Philadelphia Police Department at the age of 54 in 6221 Osage Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, . Africa was killed along with five other adults and five children when the Philadelphia Police Department head of bomb disposal dropped a satchel containing a gel-based explosive from a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter on a fortified bunker occupied by members of MOVE. The resulting explosion started a fire that resulted in the destruction of 65 homes in the neighborhood.

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(x) 36 years ago Sunday 13th of May 1990 30-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal rents room 213 where he will kill and dismember 13 people in less than 2 years in Oxford Apartments #213, 924 25th North Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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(-) 29 years ago Tuesday 13th of May 1997 Murderer Anthony Ray Westley is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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24 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 13th of May 2002 Concrete summer in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(-) 21 years ago Friday 13th of May 2005 Serial killer Michael Bruce Ross aka The Roadside Strangler is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Osborn Correctional Institution, 335 Bilton Road, Somers, Connecticut, United States.

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(x) 12 years ago Tuesday 13th of May 2014 301 die in Soma Kömür İşletmeleri A.Ş. Mine explosion and fire in Soma Kömür İşletmeleri A.Ş. Mine, Soma, Manisa, Turkey.

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(-) 8 years ago He Ascended Sunday 13th of May 2018 Avant-garde composer and guitarist Glenn Branca dies of throat cancer at the age of 70 in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 7 years ago She Went on a Sentimental Journey Monday 13th of May 2019 Actress, singer and animal rights activist Doris Day, originally Doris Von Kappelhoff dies of pneumonia at the age of 95 in Carmel Valley Village, California, United States.

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