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Events on May 13

• 1710 On the order of King Frederick I, construction of a quarantine hospital, later the Charité, begins in front of the Spandow Gate in Berlin.
• 1923 The Association of German Floral Shop Owners initiates an advertising campaign for Mother's Day, which is celebrated for the first time in Germany.
• 1927 Black Friday causes the stock index of the Imperial Statistical Office on the Berlin Stock Exchange to plunge by 31.9 percent.
• 1940 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivers his famous Blood, Sweat and Tears speech before the British Parliament.
• 1965 The third criminal division of the Federal Court of Justice decides not to initiate main proceedings against Spiegel editors Conrad Ahlers and Rudolf Augstein. This ends the Spiegel affair.
• 1971 The television show Dalli Dalli is broadcast for the first time.
• 1981 Turkish far-right extremist Mehmet Ali Ağca carries out an assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II in St Peter's Square in Rome, which he survives with serious injuries. The attacker is stopped and arrested by papal bodyguard Camillo Cibin.
• 1987 In the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup, Ajax Amsterdam defeats 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 1:0 with a goal from Marco van Basten.
• 1989 The multi-week occupation of Tian'anmen Square (“Square at the Gate of Heavenly Peace”) begins in Beijing as several hundred students begin a hunger strike there.
• 2000 The Olsen Brothers from Denmark win the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm. Stefan Raab finishes fifth with Wadde Hadde Dudde Da?
• 2000 The explosion of the fireworks factory in Enschede causes the death of 23 people, injures 947 people and damages or destroys 1,500 houses. The resulting property damage is estimated at 454 million euros.
• 2009 The Venus of Hohle Fels, found in September 2008 in the Hohle Fels cave at the southern foot of the Swabian Jura near Schelklingen and probably the oldest known depiction of a human being at around 35,000 years old, is presented to the public in Tübingen.

Born on May 13

• 1882 Georges Braque, French painter of Cubism
• 1891 Fritz Rasp, German film and stage actor
• 1922 Otl Aicher, German sculptor, graphic artist and designer
• 1922 Beatrice Arthur, American actress
• 1931 Jim Jones, American cult leader
• 1941 Senta Berger, Austrian actress and film producer
• 1950 Stevie Wonder, American singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer
• 1960 Maggie Mae, German pop singer
• 1970 Thomas Bug, German radio and television presenter
• 1993 Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „13. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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