Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 13

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  Johan Ludvig Runeberg
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  Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil
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  Lúcia Santos (middle) with Francisco and Jacinta Marto
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  Ben Carlin
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  Ben and Elinore Carlin on Half-Safe in Copenhagen
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  Lahori Gate, the Red Fort's main entrance
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  Sikorsky Russky Vityaz
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  Great Famine National Monument, Ireland
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  Maamme, the Finnish national anthem
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  Great Comet of 1861
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  Robert Smalls
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  Julian of Norwich
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  Sobral performing the song during a dress rehearsal for the contest

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Rotuma Day in Fiji	needs more footnotes
1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.	needs rewrite
1846 – The United States declared war on Mexico after a series of disputes in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, starting the Mexican–American War.	refimprove section
1848 – Maamme, the national anthem of Finland written by German composer Fredrik Pacius and Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, was performed for the first time.	refimprove section
1888 – Princess Isabel (pictured) signed the Lei Áurea into law, formally abolishing slavery in Brazil.	Unreferenced material, and lacking page numbers
1912 – The Royal Flying Corps, which later became part of the Royal Air Force, was established in the United Kingdom.	refimprove section
1917 – Ten-year-old Lúcia Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto reportedly began experiencing a Marian apparition near Fátima, Portugal, now known as Our Lady of Fátima.	refimprove section
1948 – Fifteen Jewish Kibbutz residents of Kfar Etzion were massacred following their surrender after a two-day battle with the Arab Legion and Arab settlers.	refimprove section
1952 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, held its first sitting.	unreferenced section
1967 – Zakir Husain took office as the first elected Muslim President of India.	multiple issues
1981 – Pope John Paul II was shot and critically wounded in St Peter's Square, Vatican City.	lots of CN tags (8), refimprove section
2014 – The worst mining disaster in Turkish history took place when an explosion caused an underground mine fire at a coal mine in Soma, Manisa, leaving 301 people dead.	confusing
* 1638 – Construction began on the Red Fort in Delhi, the main residence of the Mughal emperors, now an iconic symbol of India.	Fair bit uncited
* 1779 – Negotiated by Russian and French mediators, the Treaty of Teschen was signed by Austria and Prussia, leading to the end of the War of the Bavarian Succession.	Date not cited
* 1862 – American Civil War: Robert Smalls escaped from slavery by commandeering the CSS Planter and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters to the Union blockade.	Date not cited
* 1940 – Three days after becoming prime minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill gave his "blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.	Too much uncited
* 1958 – Algerian War: A group of French military officers led a coup in Algiers, demanding the formation of a government to defend French control of Algeria.	Too much uncited
* 1995 – Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of Sherpas or bottled oxygen.	"First" claim does not appear in article

Eligible

• 1373 – The English mystic Julian of Norwich recovered from a severe illness during which she experienced a series of intense visions of Christ, which she later described in the first known English-language book written by a woman.
• 1861 – The Australian astronomer John Tebbutt discovered the Great Comet of 1861, through whose tail the Earth passed later that year.
• 1913 – The Russian inventor Igor Sikorsky flew the self-designed Russky Vityaz, the world's first four-engine fixed-wing aircraft.
• 1958 – The Australian adventurer Ben Carlin became the only person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 80,000 kilometres (50,000 miles) by land and sea.
• 1969 – Sino-Malay race riots began in Kuala Lumpur, leaving at least 190 people dead, with the government declaring a state of emergency and suspending the Parliament of Malaysia until 1971.
• 1972 – The Troubles: A car bomb planted by Ulster loyalists exploded outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, beginning two days of gun battles between the British Army, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and the Ulster Volunteer Force.
• 1985 – Eleven members of the American Black liberation group MOVE were killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a bomb on their house during a raid.
• 1992 – Li Hongzhi introduced the Falun Gong movement at a public lecture in Changchun, China.
• 2005 – Uzbek Interior Ministry and State Security Service troops fired at protesters in Andijan, killing between 187 and 1,500 people.
• 2017 – Eurovision Song Contest: Portugal won the contest for the first time, with the song "Amar pelos dois," performed by Salvador Sobral (pictured).
• Born/died: | Muhammad VII of Granada |d|1408| Ole Worm |b|1588| Cornelis Schut |b|1597| John Nash |d|1835| Arthur Sullivan |b|1842| Kate Marsden |b|1859| Lorna Hodgkinson |b|1887| Inge Lehmann |b|1888| Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed |b|1905| Antonia Ferrín Moreiras |b|1914| Ralph Milne |b|1961| H. Trendley Dean |d|1962| Jaime Torres Bodet |d|1974| Robert Pattinson |b|1986| Jagdish Mali |d|2013| David Malet Armstrong |d|2014| Danny Lendich |d|2025

Notes

• Beatification of Pope John Paul II appears on May 9 and Juan María Fernández y Krohn appears on May 12, so Pope John Paul II assassination attempt should not appear in the same year
• Norway Debate appears on May 7 and Neville Chamberlain's resignation appears on May 10, so Churchill's speech should not appear in the same year

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• 1909 – The inaugural edition of the Giro d'Italia, a long-distance multiple-stage bicycle race, began in Milan; the Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the eventual winner.
• 1958 – US vice president Richard Nixon's motorcade was attacked by a mob in Caracas, Venezuela.
• 2000 – An explosion (aftermath pictured) at a fireworks factory in Enschede, Netherlands, resulted in 23 deaths and approximately €450 million in damage.
• 2008 – Nine bombs placed by the Indian Mujahideen, then an unknown terrorist group, exploded in a 15-minute period in Jaipur, India, killing 80 people and injuring more than 200 others.