Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on May 13 throughout history.
On 13 May 2014, blasting at Eynez coal mine in Soma, Manisa, Turkey, caused an underground mine fire, which burned until 15 May. In total, 301 people were killed, making it the wo…
An explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest Turkey kills 301 miners
Kermit Barron Gosnell was an American serial killer and abortion doctor. At his clinic in West Philadelphia, Gosnell provided illegal and unsafe late-term abortions, committed pos…
American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted
The Cadereyta Jiménez massacre occurred on the Fed 40 on 12–13 May 2012. Mexican officials stated that 49 people were decapitated and mutilated by members of Los Zetas drug cartel…
Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40
A double bombing occurred on 13 May 2011 in Shabqadar Fort in Charsadda District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. 98 people were killed when two suicide bombs exploded …
Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others
The 2006 São Paulo violence outbreak began on the night of May 12, 2006 in São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America. It was among the worst outbreaks of violence in re…
São Paulo violence: Rebellions occur in several prisons in Brazil
On 13 May 2005, protests erupted in Andijan, Uzbekistan. At one point, troops from the Uzbek National Security Service (SNB) fired into a crowd of protesters. Estimates of those k…
Andijan uprising, Uzbekistan; Troops open fire on crowds of protestors after a prison break; at least 187 people were ki
The Enschede fireworks disaster was a catastrophic fireworks explosion on 13 May 2000 in Enschede, Netherlands. The explosion killed 23 people, including four firefighters, and in…
A fireworks storage depot explodes in a residential neighborhood in Enschede, Netherlands, killing 23 people and injurin
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), …
Kosovo War: NATO bombs the village of Koriša, killing at least 87 people
The May 1998 Indonesia riots, also known colloquially as the 1998 tragedy or simply the 98 event, were incidents of mass violence and civil unrest in Indonesia, many of which targ…
Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women rap
Pokhran-II was a series of five nuclear weapon tests conducted by India in May 1998. The bombs were detonated at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan. It was the seco…
India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and thunder. Relatively weak thunderstorms are someti…
Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people
Alison Jane Hargreaves was a British mountaineer. Her accomplishments included scaling Mount Everest alone, without supplementary oxygen or support from a Sherpa team, in 1995. Sh…
Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to ascend Everest without oxygen or the help of
Li Hongzhi is a Chinese religious leader. He is the founder and leader of Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, a United States–based new religious movement. Li began his public teachings of…
Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China
The Dinamo Zagreb–Red Star Belgrade riot was a football riot which took place on 13 May 1990 at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, SR Croatia, then part of SFR Yugoslavia, between the Ba…
The Dinamo–Red Star riot took place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zag
The Dinamo Zagreb–Red Star Belgrade riot was a football riot which took place on 13 May 1990 at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, SR Croatia, then part of SFR Yugoslavia, between the Ba…
The Dinamo–Red Star riot takes place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia, between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Z
Protests led by students and workers, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of uns…
Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike
The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, was the aerial bombing of a house, and the destruction of 61 more houses by the subsequent fire, in the Cobbs Creek…
Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 c
The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, was the aerial bombing of a house, and the destruction of 61 more houses by the subsequent fire, in the Cobbs Creek…
Police bomb MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 cit
Mehmet Ali Ağca is a Turkish former hitman for Grey Wolves. On 1 February 1979, he murdered journalist Abdi İpekçi, known for his leftist views, and was imprisoned, but escaped. H…
Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St
The Fujita scale, or Fujita–Pearson scale, is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation. The o…
An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan