May 13th Anniversaries

Santo Domingo.- The historical events of May 13th are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history. Below are the main historical events of May 13th:

• World Day of Our Lady of Fatima.
• World Football Coach Day.
• International Hummus Day.
• Spain: National Hospitalized Children's Day.

Saint's Day: Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament.

National: May 13th Anniversaries

• 1849: President Manuel Jimenes appears before Congress on charges of pressuring said body.
• 1884: First test of the Santiago-Samaná railway, which only covered the Sánchez-La Vega section.
• 1907: Congress declares a loan of up to twenty million pesos to be of public utility.
• 1916: The U.S. flag cruiser Dolfin arrives in the country, commanded by Rear Admiral William Banks Cáperton, who immediately urged General Desiderio Arias to lay down his arms within 48 hours, officially initiating the military intervention of the Dominican Republic.
• 1935: The National Census is taken with the following result: 1,478,713 inhabitants. 750,000 males and 728,713 females.
• 1965: Rafael Fernández arrives with McGeorge Bundy in the Dominican Republic in a U.S. military plane.
• - Negotiations continue in Puerto Rico between Professor Juan Bosch and the representative of the United States government, Abe Fortas, on the most sensitive issues such as the relations between the possible regime of Antonio Guzmán and the Dominican military commands.
• - Drew Pearson describes Juan Bosch as an “idealistic and naive patriot”.
• 1993: Joaquín Balaguer settles 212 peasants in an agrarian project in Los Haitises, Samaná.
• 2003: José Lois Malkun files a complaint against BANINTER executives.
• 2010: Former Olympic swimmer Marcos Díaz travels from Oceania to Asia in his first stage of the "Swimming of the Continents" crossing, with a record of 19.7 km in 4 hours, 11 minutes and 38 seconds, leaving from Wutung Village in Papua New Guinea to Mabo in Indonesia.
• 2020: Adriano Espaillat reports the death of more than 900 Dominicans from Covid-19 in New York.
• 2021: Transporters denounce former ministers Montalvo, Peralta and Guerrero for corruption.

International: May 13th Anniversaries

• 461: Battle of Cartagena between Romans and Vandals.
• 1275: Troops of the Moroccan sultan disembark in Tarifa, the Strait War begins.
• 1470: Christopher Columbus signs document in Genoa declaring himself over 19 years old.
• 1598: Edict of King Henry IV grants religious freedom to the Huguenots in France.
• 1647: An earthquake of great intensity causes havoc in Chile from Cuzco to Valdivia.
• 1846: USA declares war on Mexico.
• 1888: Pedro II decrees the abolition of slavery in Brazil through the Golden Law.
• 1937: Churchill delivers his famous speech in Parliament: “Blood, toil, tears, and sweat”.
• 1943: Surrender of the “Afrika Korps” in North Africa.
• 1946: Portuguese women crown statue of Our Lady of Fatima.
• 1958: In Caracas, the car of US Vice President Richard Nixon is attacked.
• 1979: Iranian Islamic Tribunal calls for the assassination of the Shah and his family.
• 2000: John Paul II beatifies Francisco and Jacinta Marto.
• 2002: Fidel Castro meets with Jimmy Carter in Cuba.
• 2002: Carlos Menem withdraws from the elections in Argentina; Kirchner accedes to power.
• 2005: Venezuela requests the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles to the USA.
• 2011: Taliban attack kills 88 recruits in Pakistan.
• 2014: EU Court establishes the "right to be forgotten" in search engines.
• 2017: Pope Francis canonizes Francisco Marto (1908-1919) and Jacinta Marto (1910-1920), in Fatima who -along with Lucía dos Santos (1907-2005)- were the three shepherds who in 1917 claimed that the Virgin of Fatima appeared to them.
• 2019: Russia warns of consequences of a US intervention in Venezuela.
• 2020: FBI warns of Chinese cyberattacks against investigations into Covid-19.
• - Haiti receives medical supplies donated by China.
• 2021: Retired US generals and admirals question the legitimacy of Joe Biden.
• - Major Christopher Warnagiris is arrested for participating in the assault on the Capitol.
• 2025: Former Uruguayan President José Mujica dies.

Births: May 13th Anniversaries

• 1024: Hugo of Cluny, French religious figure and saint.
• 1730: Charles Watson, British aristocrat, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1857: Ronald Ross, British physician and entomologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1902.
• 1899: Otto Degener, American botanist and conservationist.
• 1901: Witold Pilecki, Polish military officer, leader of the Polish resistance.
• 1914: Antonia Ferrín Moreiras, Galician mathematician and astronomer.
• 1914: Joe Louis, American boxer.
• 1950: Stevland Hardaway Morris, Stevie Wonder, American musician and social activist.
• 1983: Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer.

Deaths: May 13th Anniversaries

• 1832: Georges Cuvier, French zoologist.
• 1903: Apolinario Mabini, Filipino politician, 1st Prime Minister of his country.
• 1930: Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer and politician, Nobel Peace Prize in 1922.
• 1938: Charles Edouard Guillaume; Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920.
• 1965: Ignacio Barraquer, ophthalmologist, dies at 70 in Barcelona.
• 1994: Duncan Hamilton, British racing driver.
• 2014: Lorenzo Zambrano, Mexican businessman, president of CEMEX.
• 2025: José “Pepe” Mujica, former president of Uruguay.