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May 13, 609
Pope Boniface IV turns Pantheon, given him by the Byzantine emperor Phocas, into Christian church -
May 13, 1110Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath and include the city in Kingdom of Jerusalem
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May 13, 1497Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola, who preached against corruption in the Church and civil government, for heresy
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May 13, 1607Jamestown, Virginia, is settled by English privateer Christopher Newport and 105 followers, which would become the first permanent English colony in North America
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May 13, 1637Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife to cure dinner guests of the unsavoury habit of picking their teeth with their knife-points
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May 13, 1654Venetian fleet under Admiral Adeler beats Turkish
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May 13, 1779War of Bavarian Succession ends with Treaty of Teschen
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May 13, 1830Republic of Ecuador is founded after separation from Gran Columbia, with Juan José Flores, a Venezuelan military general, as president
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May 13, 1861Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality in the War Between the States
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May 13, 1888Princess Isabel of Brazil signs a law named "Lei Áurea", abolishing slavery and emancipating some 4 million slaves, the most of any nation in the western hemisphere
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May 13, 1926British general strike, involving 2.5 million trade workers, ends, but mine workers go on strike
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May 13, 1943The North African campaign of World War II ends as German and Italian forces forces surrender yielding over 275,000 prisoners of war
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May 13, 1950The first Formula One season is commenced with British Grand Prix, won by Giuseppe Farina for the Alfa Romeo team
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May 13, 1952Jawaharlal Nehru, one of the leaders of the Indian independence movement, becomes premier of India
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May 13, 19681,000,000 French demonstrate against Charles de Gaulle and Pompidou
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May 13, 1981Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded by Turkish ultra-nationalist Mehmet Ali Ağca, who makes two shots striking the Pope, while passing through Saint Peter's Square in Rome, in an open car
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May 13, 1992Falun Gong, a Chinese spiritual discipline for mind and body, is introduced by Li Hongzhi
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May 13, 1998Indonesian natives destroy and burn Chinese Indonesian-owned properties and kill and rape more than 1,000 Chinese Indonesians during riots against Chinese Indonesians
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