May 2013 in History

Events in History

May 4 Harper Lee files a lawsuit against a literary agent over the copyright of "To Kill a Mockingbird"

May 4 Juventus F.C. win their 29th Serie A football title
May 5 10 people are killed in a church attack in Njilan, Nigeria
May 5 5 people are killed after a limousine catches fire in Hayward, California
May 6 10 people are killed and 26 people are injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq
May 6 13 people are killed in clashes with Bangladeshi police in Dhaka
May 6 15 people are killed and 50 are injured after a bomb detonates at a political rally in Pakistan
May 6 Brazilian neobank Nubank founded in Brazil by David Vélez, Cristina Junqueira and Edward Wible
May 6 The US Senate passes a bill enabling taxing of online sales
May 6 Wal-Mart becomes the largest company by revenue on the Fortune 500 list
May 7 20 people are killed and 36 are injured after a gas tanker explodes in Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico
May 7 4 people are killed after the Mayon Volcano erupts in the Philippines
May 7 55 people are killed by a Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
May 7 8 people are killed and a dozen are injured after bear attacks in Orissa, India
May 7 Delaware becomes the 11th US State to legalize same-sex marriage
May 7 Jolly Nero, an Italian cargo ship, crashes into the port of Genoa, killing seven people
May 7 The Dow Jones Industrial average and S&P 500 set record highs
May 8 33 people are killed after an overloaded bus falls into a river in Himachal Pradesh, India

May 8 Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a four year prison sentence for fraud

May 12 Pope Francis canonizes the 813 martyrs of Otranto as Saints

May 13 Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield departs the International Space Station to return to Earth

May 14 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel "Americanah" is published

May 16 Bill Gates regains his position as the world's richest man with $72.7 billion after losing the position in 2008

May 16 Human stem cells are successfully cloned
May 16 Pope Francis calls for ethical financial reform to fight speculation
May 17 90 people are killed and 200 are injured after a series of bombings across Iraq
May 20 133 people are killed and 283 are injured in a continued wave of insurgency in Iraq
May 20 2 people are killed and 20 are injured after a hot air balloon crashes in Cappadocia, Turkey
May 20 The Church of Scotland votes to allow openly gay men and women to be ministers
May 20 Yahoo purchases Tumbler for $1.1 Billion
May 22 British Army Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered near the Royal Artillery Barracks in London by two Islamic terrorists, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.
May 24 Rafael Correa is sworn into a third term as President of Ecuador
May 25 17 children are killed by a gas cylinder explosion on a school bus in Gujrat, Pakistan
May 25 Yuichiro Miura of Japan becomes the oldest person to climb Mount Everest at 80
May 27 75 people are killed and 200 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq
May 27 The largest flag ever made at 5 tons with 44 miles of thread is unveiled in Romania
May 31 First tornado chaser to be killed by a tornado; Tim Samara and two others killed by El Reno tornado in Oklahoma, the widest ever recorded at 2.6 miles (4.2 km)

May 19 Former Armor for Sleep frontman Ben Jorgensen (29) weds actress Katrina Bowden (24) at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in NYC, New York

May 4 Christian de Duve, British cytologist and biochemist (Nobel 1974), dies from euthanasia at 95
May 4 Morgan Morgan-Giles, British Naval officer and politician, dies at 98
May 4 Otis Bowen, American politician, US Sec of Health & Human Services (1985-89), dies at 95
May 5 Sarah Kirsch, German poet, dies at 78
May 6 Giulio Andreotti, Italian Prime Minister, dies at 94
May 8 Taylor Mead, American writer, actor and performer (Factory, Taylor Mead's Ass), dies at 88
May 13 Dr. Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, dies from respiratory failure at 85
May 16 Bernard Waber, American children's book author, dies from kidney failure at 88
May 16 Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986), dies at 79

May 17 Argentine military officer and dictator (1976-81), dies from complications from a fall at 87

May 22 Fusilier Lee Rigby, British Army soldier, murdered near the Royal Artillery Barracks in London by two Islamic terrorists, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale
May 24 Michel Crozier, French sociologist, dies at 90
May 26 Jack Vance, American sci-fi author, dies at 96
May 29 Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler, Polish-Canadian gynecologist, abortion rights advocate, and Holocaust survivor, dies at 90
May 31 Tim Samaras, American tornado chaser, dies from tornado injuries at 55