May 13
People born on this day are Taurus.
- 1992
Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
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Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to ascend Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
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Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
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Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
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India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
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Kosovo War: NATO bombs the village of Koriša, killing at least 87 people.
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A fireworks storage depot explodes in a residential neighborhood in Enschede, Netherlands, killing 23 people and injuring 950 others.
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São Paulo violence: Rebellions occur in several prisons in Brazil.
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Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.
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Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40.
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American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted abortions, involuntary manslaughter of a woman during an abortion procedure, and other charges.
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An explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest Turkey kills 301 miners.
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2003Jaxson Dart, American football player
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2003Jabari Smith Jr., American basketball player
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2002Diego López, Spanish footballer
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1999Óscar Mingueza, Spanish footballer
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1999Aníbal Moreno, Argentine footballer
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1998Adrià Pedrosa, Spanish footballer
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1998Luca Zidane, Algerian footballer
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1997Nico Hoerner, American baseball player
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1994Percy Tau, South African footballer
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1993Abby Dahlkemper, American footballer
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1993Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer
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1993Debby Ryan, American actress and singer
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