History for May 13

History for May 13 - On-This-Day.com
Joe Louis (Barrow) 1914 - Boxer, "The Brown Bomber", Harvey Keitel 1939 - Actor ("Pulp Fiction", "Thelma and Louise", "Taxi Driver"), Richie Valens (Richard Steven Valenzuela) 1941 - Singer 


Mary Wells 1943 - Singer , Stevie Wonder (Steveland Morris) 1950 - Musician , Dennis Rodman 1961 - Basketball player, nickname: "The Worm", actor 


1607 - An expedition led by Captain Christopher Newport arrived at Jamestown, Virginia. The passengers went ashore the next day and this site became the first permanent settlement English colony in America.


1846 - The U.S. declared that war existed with Mexico.


1888 - Slavery was abolished in Brazil.


1917 - Near Fatima, Portugal, three peasant children reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.


1940 - Winston Churchill made his first speech as the prime minister of Britain.


1954 - U.S. President Eisenhower signed into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act.


1985 - A confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped an explosive onto the group's headquarters. Eleven people died in the fire that resulted.


2003 - The U.S. government unveiled a newly designed version of the $20 bill. It was the first to be colorized in an effort to stop counterfeiters.