13th May anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1707
  • Sweden
  • Birth of Carl Linnaeus creator of the taxonomical classification of plants.
  • 1907
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Dame Daphne Du Maurier author of the novels Jamaica Inn (1939 ) and Rebecca (1940), and the short story The Birds, which became films." more
• event
  • 1568
  • Battle of Langside – Mary's flight to England and her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth I
  • 1787
  • Australia
  • First convicts sent to Australia
  • 1912
  • Great Britain
  • Royal Flying Corps (later the RAF) founded in Britain
  • 1939
  • United States
  • "The first commercial FM radio station in the USA was launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. (The station is now known as WDRC-FM)"
  • 1958
  • Switzerland
  • Velcro was registered as a trademark by its Swiss inventor George de Mestral. more
  • 1958
  • France
  • Pierre Pflimlin became Prime Minister of France .
  • 1958
  • United States
  • "US Vice-President Richard Nixon’s limousine was attacked by rockthrowing anti-US demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela."
  • 1968
  • Peace talks between the USA and North Vietnam began in Paris .
  • 1989
  • Great Britain
  • "British war hero Jackie Mann, a former Battle of Britain pilot, was kidnapped in Beirut. (Released September 1991)"
• Death