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  On This Day: May 13, 2008

Birthdays:

1265	Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
1729	Henry William Stiegel - 5/13/1729 - 1/10/1785 - German-born American ironmaster and glassmaker
1737	William Lansdowne - 5/13/1737 - 5/7/1805 - English statesman, viceroy of Canada (1883-88), viceroy of India (1888-94) secretary of state for war (1895-1900) and foreign secretary (1900-06)
1792	Pius IX - 5/13/1792 - 2/7/1878 - Italian pope (1846-78)
1842	Sir Arthur Sullivan - 5/13/1842 - 11/22/1900 - English composer, wrote operettas with W. S. Gilbert
1857	Sir Ronald Ross - 5/13/1857 - 9/16/1932 - British bacteriologist, won the Nobel prize in 1902
1882	Georges Braque - 5/13/1882 - 8/31/1963 - French Cubist painter
1896	Charles Pahud de Mortanges - 5/13/1896 - 4/7/1971 - Dutch equestrian, won Olympic medals in 1924, 1928 and1932
1907	Daphne du Maurier, English novelist
1912	Gil Evans - 5/13/1912 - 3/20/1988 - Canadian-born composer and arranger
1914	Joe Louis - 5/13/1914 - 4/12/1981 - American boxer, world champion from 1937 to 1949
1926	Bea Arthur - Actress
1927	Clive Barnes - Critic
1931	Jim Jones - 5/13/1931 - 11/18/1978 - American cult leader responsible for the Jonestown Massacre in 1978
1939	Harvey Keitel - Actor
1949	Franklin Ajaye - Actor
1950	Stevie Wonder - Singer-musician
1965	Lari White - Country singer
1966	Darius Rucker - Singer (Hootie and the Blowfish)
1968	Susan Floyd - Actress
1977	Samantha Morton - Actress

Events:

1607	The English colony at Jamestown, Va., was settled.
1607	There were widespread riots in England against the enclosure of common land
1842	Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, who collaborated with Sir William Gilbert in writing 14 comic operas, was born in London.
1846	The United States declared that a state of war already existed against Mexico.
1914	Joe Louis, the American boxer who was world heavyweight champion for a record-setting 12 years, was born.
1917	Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.
1927	'Black Friday' in Germany; the day when the economic collapse of Germany began
1940	In his first speech as prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill told the House of Commons, ''I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.''
1944	Hitler gave permission for German forces to withdraw from the USSR
1958	Vice President Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
1961	Gary Cooper, the famous Hollywood actor, died
1977	The eleven day stike in Ulster ended
1981	Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.
1985	A confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped an explosive onto the group's headquarters 11 people died in the resulting fire.
1987	Sevral sailing ships left Portsmouth, re-enacting the first voyage to Botany Bay
1999	Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist Meg Greenfield died in Washington at age 68.