May 13 is National Fruit Cocktail Day. As a fruit lover, serve some fruit cocktail with a meal today.
Spare some minutes to read your history. Use the following list of major events to learn what happened on this day, in history.
- 1779-The War of Bavarian Succession ended.
- 1854-The first big American billiards match was held at Malcolm Hall in Syracuse, NY.
- 1861-Queen Victoria announced Britain’s position of neutrality.
- 1873-Ludwig M. Wolf patented the sewing machine lamp holder.
- 1888-Slavery was abolished in Brazil.
- 1909-The Giro d’Italia cycle race was held for the first time.
- 1927-“Black Friday” occurred in Germany.
- 1940-Igor Sikorsky pilot his VS-300 helicopter’s maiden flight.
- 1950-The first Formula One World Championship season kicked off.
- 1954-U.S. President Eisenhower signed into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act.
- 1958-The motorcade carrying US Vice President Richard Nixon was attacked in Caracas, Venezuela; several of Nixon’s staff were injured.
- 1968-Peace talks between the U.S. and North Vietnam began in Paris.
- 1979-The Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his family were sentenced to death in Tehran.
- 1981-Pope John Paul II survived an assassination attempt.
- 1982-The Chicago Cubs became the first major league baseball team to won 8,000 games.
- 1985-A confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped an explosive onto the group’s headquarters.
- 1989-Thousands of students began a hunger strike on Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
- 1999-In Moscow, the impeachment of Russian President Boris Yeltsin began.
- 2003-The U.S. government unveiled a newly designed version of the $20 bill.
- 2012-Manchester City won the English Premier League for the first time.