05-13-2006, 04:40 PM
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May 13th
1787 ~ Captain Arthur Phillip left Portsmouth, England with eleven ships of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1842 ~ Birthday of Sir Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert & Sullivan, Composer.
1861 ~ Queen Victoria issued a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognized the breakaway Confederate states as having belligerent rights.
1888 ~ Brazil abolished slavery.
1912 ~ The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) was established in the U.K.
1937 ~ Birthday of Roger Zelazny, Science Fiction author.
1940 ~ Winston Churchill made his "blood, tears, toil and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
1981 ~ Mehmet Ali Ağca attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Square in Rome.
1985 ~ The confrontation between the MOVE organization and Philadelphia's city government left 11 MOVE members and one police officer dead and 61 homes destroyed by fire.
2003 ~ The US government unveiled a new version of the $20 bill - the first to be colorized in an effort to thwart counterfeiters.
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