WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2020

1777 - University library at Vienna opens

1779 - War of Bavarian Succession ends

1905 - James J Jeffries retires as boxing champion

1906 - Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem

1909 - Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands

1912 - Royal Flying Corps is established in England

1913 - First 4 engine aircraft built & flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)

1932 - Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich marries Nina Varsar

1933 - 59th Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Head Play wins in 2:02

1934 - Great dustbowl storm

1952 - Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India

1981 - Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St. Peter's Square

1989 - Approximately 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China

1995 - 6.5 earthquake hits Greece