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May 13: National Apple Pie Day: -- Grab a
fork and a napkin because today's a holiday you can really sink
your teeth into! Apple pie has been around since the Middle Ages.
A Dutch cookbook dated 1514 lists a recipe for Appeltaerten. It
called for a standard pie crust, slices of soft seedless apples,
and a few tasty spices-specifically cardamom, ginger, cinnamon,
nutmeg, clove, mace, and sugar-all cooked up in a traditional
Dutch oven. The English also had their version of apple pie, which
dates back to the time of Chaucer. The English version also
suggests adding figs, raisins, and pears to the apple-and-spice
mixture. In Sweden, apple crumble was the gold-standard.
Traditional Swedish apple crumble requires breadcrumbs or rolled
oats instead of pastry, and is served up with custard or ice
cream. In France, apple pie is served upside-down as a tarte
tatin. The French also caramelized their apples, an innovation
which added a whole new dynamic to the flavor. They were also the
ones who decided to add cheese to their pies, which actually makes
for a surprisingly delicious treat. In the 17th century, apple pie
was finally brought to the American colonies. Over time, apple
trees (which were not native to the Americas) began to grow, which
made baking much easier. Now, apple pie has become an indelible
part of the American identity, to the extent that apple pie is
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May 13: National Fruit Cocktail Day: --
What a joy it is to sip on a refreshing fruit cocktail! Imagine
the delightful mix of colorful fruit flavors that can bring a
smile to anyone's face! The term fruit cocktail conjures up
childhood memories of finding a sweet surprise at the bottom of
your sack lunch, but there's so much more to this spring and
summer food favorite. From its origins as a heavy, purely
unwholesome aperitif of the American south to the trendy summer
salads we see today, National Fruit Cocktail Day is all about the
delightful mix of vibrant fruit flavors that bring a smile to
anyone's face. It's a special day dedicated to this colorful blend
of fresh and canned fruits, perfect for brightening up our plates
and lifting our spirits. The celebration of National Fruit
Cocktail Day is a perfect opportunity to explore the versatility
of fruit cocktails. Whether it's mixed in a fruit salad, used as a
dessert topping, or sipped from a fancy glass, a fruit cocktail
brings a burst of flavor and texture. The different fruit pieces
blend beautifully to create a mix that's always exciting to enjoy.
Fruit cocktails' blend of flavors and vibrant colors makes them a
favorite for gatherings, summer picnics, or even a quick snack at
home. Their versatility makes them a great addition to many
dishes. By celebrating National Fruit Cocktail Day, we honor this
fruity treat that brings a splash of joy to any occasion. National
Fruit Cocktail Day traces its roots to the mid-20th century when
canned fruit cocktails became increasingly popular in American
kitchens. The convenience of having pre-cut fruits ready to serve
made these cocktails a beloved option for busy households. People
loved the refreshing taste, vibrant appearance, and ease of
preparation. Initially, fruit cocktails were a staple in festive
meals, served in elegant bowls or added to sweet desserts. As time
passed, more people embraced them for their versatility, using
them in salads, beverages, and as toppings. The colorful blend of
fruits could be enjoyed in a variety of ways, making it a popular
choice for many. To honor the history of this tasty treat,
National Fruit Cocktail Day was established to celebrate its
refreshing and sweet flavors. This day invites everyone to
appreciate the fruity mix in all its forms, whether it be in a
fancy fruit salad, added to desserts, or simply enjoyed straight
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Today,May 13, 2026
May 13L Cough Drop Day: -- In existence
since around 1000 B.C, cough drops are small, medicated tablets
intended to soothe a sore or irritated throat. In the 19th century
in the United States, physicians commenced adding questionable
ingredients to their cough drop formulas. Thankfully, this was
soon phased out. Today, cough drops are often candy-like, with a
sweet taste derived from the sweetening agents included in most
products. One can even access various recipes from the internet
with ingredients from pears to cinnamon and ginger. The history of
Cough Drop Day is largely unknown. Also known as a throat lozenge,
a cough drop is a small, medicated tablet intended to soothe a
sore or irritated throat. It is usually taken when a person is
displaying symptoms of a common cold or influenza. The cough drops
are meant to temporarily stop the coughs, and soothe and lubricate
the tissues of the throat. Cough drops are typically candy-like in
taste. Originally, most cough drops were shaped like diamonds, as
the name 'lozenge' is derived from the French 'losange' which
translates to 'rhombus.' The use of candies to soothe throat
irritations is said to have begun as far back as 1000 B.C during
Egypt's '20th Dynasty.' At the time, these ancient cough drops
were made from honey, flavored with herbs, citrus, and spices. In
the 19th century, physicians began using morphine, formaldehyde,
and heroin, which they discovered could suppress the cough at the
source, which is the brain. However, these ingredients were
considered harmful because of the risk that they might lead to a
dependence on opioids. In fact, lozenge manufacturers made it a
habit to specify that their lozenges were free of opioids. In
1892, a Keatings Cough Lozenges ad included the statement, "They
are invaluable. They contain no opium nor any violent drug."
In 1881, William Luden made history by creating the first menthol
cough drops. In 1879, he began as a candy manufacturer, making his
products in his family's small kitchen at the back of his father's
jewelry shop in Pennsylvania. Later, he collaborated with a
pharmacist to invent a cough drop formula, which they colored
amber. Luden's Menthol Cough Drops contained honey, licorice, and
menthol and were sold for many years in five-cent packages. Luden
is an example of the many cough drop manufacturers that started as
candy-makers, confectioners, and bakers. Other examples of such
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Today,May 13, 2026
May 13: IEEE Global Engineering Day: This
day, founded by the Institute Of Electrical And Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), is all about recognizing the achievements of
engineers and their work that has an impact on society. Discussing
engineering advances or showcasing the work of engineers are
excellent ways to identify the enormous impact that engineering
has had on our daily lives. Next time you walk down the street,
find yourself in an office building, or drive over a bridge,
marvel at the incredible skill and intellect that went into
creating what you observe and utilize every day. IEEE Global
Engineering Day honors the profession and field of study that has
always pushed humanity's known limits a little further. It also
emphasizes the need for governments to have a stronger mandate to
promote science and technology and various branches of engineering
as competitive and fulfilling career paths. In the face of a
global decrease in students entering engineering, computing, and
technology fields, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers Inc. (IEEE), the world's largest organization of
technical professionals with over 350,000 members in 160
countries, emphasizes the need to encourage more students and
young professionals to pursue a career in this field. The IEEE
Foundation was founded in 1973 and is governed by the laws of the
State of New York to further the IEEE's scientific and educational
goals. A Board of 13 members leads the Foundation with diverse
technical, geographic, and professional backgrounds, and a staff
of ten people runs it. IEEE Global Engineering Day was created to
unite the international community in celebrating engineers and the
future of engineering. It's about recognizing their achievements
and work. The aim is to introduce students to the world of
engineering through games, projects, and activities. Major cities
are home to the world's tallest skyscrapers, a complex network of
pulsing highways, subways, skyways, and cutting-edge airports and
seaports. Cars can drive themselves, and drones can photograph
weddings. Engineers and other men of science are responsible for
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Today,May 13, 2026
May 13, 1221: #BOTD: Alexander Nevsky,
Russian prince and saint (d. November 14, 1263) is #born Alexander
Yaroslavich Nevsky in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Vladimir-Suzdal, also
known as Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia,
located on the main Moscow-Yaroslavl road and on the southeastern
shore of Lake Pleshcheyevo at the mouth of the Trubezh River. St.
Alexander Nevsky served as Prince of Novgorod (1236-40, 1240-56
and 1258-1259), Grand Prince of Kiev (1236-52) and Grand Prince of
Vladimir (1252-63) during some of the most difficult times in
Kievan Rus' history. Commonly regarded as a key figure of medieval
Rus, St. Alexander, the grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest, rose to
legendary status on account of his military victories over German
and Swedish invaders while agreeing to pay tribute to the powerful
Golden Horde. He was canonized as a saint of the Russian Orthodox
Church by Metropolite Macarius in 1547. Nevsky was responsible for
a historic military victory that eventually became commemorated as
a Russian Day Of Military Honour: 18 April - Victory over the
Teutonic Knights in the Battle Of The Ice, 1242. The Days Of
Military Honour are special memorable dates in the Russian Armed
Forces dedicated to the most outstanding victories won by Russia.
Some of these dates are state holidays but the majority of them is
celebrated purely in the military. During the Battle On The Ice Of
Lake Peipus, Russian forces of the Republic of Novgorod, led by
Prince Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the
crusader army led by the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Knights
on April 5, 1242. The battle is notable for having been fought
largely on the frozen lake, and this gave the battle its name. The
battle was a significant defeat sustained by the crusaders during
the Northern Crusades, which were directed against pagans and
Eastern Orthodox Christians rather than Muslims in the Holy Land.
The Crusaders' defeat in the battle marked the end of their
campaigns against the Orthodox Novgorod Republic and other Slavic
territories for the next century. The event was glorified in
Sergei Eisenstein's historical drama film Alexander Nevsky,
released in 1938, which created a popular image of the battle
often mistaken for the real events. Sergei Prokofiev turned his
score for the film into a concert cantata of the same title, with
"The Battle on the Ice" being its longest movement.
While returning from one of his frequent visits to the Golden
Horde, Alexander died aged 42 of undisclosed causes in the town of
Gorodets-On-The-Volga on his way back from the Goden Horde capital
of Sarai. Prior to his death, he took monastic vows and was given
the religious name of Alexis. On November 23, 1263, he was buried
in the church of the Monastery of the Nativity of the Holy Mother
of God in Vladimir, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. He was later
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Today,May 13, 2026
May 13, 1515: The English Monarchy (The
Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of England): Royal Weddings: -- Mary
Tudor, English princess who was briefly Queen of France and later
progenitor of a family which claimed the English throne, and
Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, are officially married at
Greenwich, South East London, England. Mary Tudor, beautiful
English princess, briefly Queen Of France, Duchess Of Suffolk and
member of The Tudor Dynasty who ruled the Kingdom Of England and
the Lordship Of Ireland (March 18, 1496 - June 25, 1533) was born
the fifth child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York,[1]
and the youngest to survive infancy. Known in her youth as one of
the most beautiful princesses in Europe, Erasmus said of her that
"Nature never formed anything more beautiful", and the
paintings and drawings made of her during her lifetime bear
witness to this beauty. She was the younger surviving daughter of
King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and the third
wife of Louis XII of France, who was more than 30 years older than
her. Following his death mere weeks after he married her
(reputedly worn out by his exertions in the bedchamber, but more
likely from the effects of gout), she soon married the man she was
in love with, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. A marriage
performed secretly in France, the marriage occurred without the
consent of Mary's brother, Henry VIII. The marriage necessitated
the intervention of Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey on the couple's
behalf; Henry eventually pardoned the couple, after they paid a
large fine. Mary's second marriage produced four children, and
through her older daughter, Frances, she was the maternal
grandmother of Lady Jane Grey, who was the de facto Queen Of
England for nine days in July 1553. Even after her second
marriage, Mary was normally referred to at the English court as
the Queen of France, and was not known as the Duchess of Suffolk
in her lifetime, despite being legally allowed to be. Mary Tudor
died at age 37 at Westhorpe Hall, Suffolk, England, having never
fully recovered from the sweating sickness (a mysterious and
contagious disease that struck England and later continental
Europe in a series of epidemics between 1485 and 1551) that she
caught in 1528; the cause of death has been speculated to have
been angina, tuberculosis, appendicitis, or cancer. As an English
princess, daughter of a king, sister to the current king, and a
dowager queen of France, Mary Tudor's funeral and interment was
conducted with much heraldic ceremony. A requiem mass was held at
Westminster Abbey. Her body was embalmed and held in state at
Westhorpe Hall for three weeks. On 21 July 1533, a delegation from
France joined the English delegation for the lavish funeral
ceremony. Her daughter Frances was chief mourner, accompanied by
her husband and siblings. As was tradition, neither Mary's husband
nor her brother the king attended. The funeral procession included
100 torch bearers, clergy carrying the cross, six horses pulling
the hearse, other nobility and 100 of the duke's yeomen. A requiem
mass and burial at Bury St. Edmunds Abbey followed the next day.
At the funeral, her step-daughters, Anne and Mary, pushed
themselves to the head of the cortege just before the coffin was
lowered into the crypt of the Abbey, much to the consternation of
their half-siblings. Five years later, when the monastery was
dissolved, Mary's body was removed to nearby St. Mary's Church,
Bury St. Edmunds. In 1784, her remains were disinterred, her
coffin opened, and locks of her hair were taken by Horace Walpole,
Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, and several others. Upon
her arrival in France, Mary was described as being "handsome
and well favoured, were not her eyes and eyebrows too light; she
is slight, rather than defective from corpulence, and conducts
herself with so much grace, and has such good manners, that for
her age of 18 years-and she does not look more-she is a paradise."
Contemporaries lauded her beauty, including her husband, Louis
XII, who described her as a "nymph from heaven". She
regularly took part in masques at her brother's court, and enjoyed
"hearing singing, instrumental music, and dancing". Mary
was described as "very lively", with one nobleman noting
"[she] is never still." She was also said to be cheerful
and affable; this is shown when, upon meeting her future husband
Louis for the first time, she blew him a kiss in greeting. Charles
Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (c. 1484 - August 22 , 1545) was an
English military leader and courtier. Through his third wife, Mary
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Today,May 13, 2026
May 13, 1568: The European Wars Of
Religion: The Marian Civil War: The Battle Of Langside: -- The
forces of Mary, Queen Of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of
Scottish Protestants acting in the name of her infant son James VI
under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother. Mary's short
period of personal rule ended in 1567 in recrimination, intrigue,
and disaster when, after her capture at Carberry Hill, she was
forced to abdicate in favour of James VI. Mary was imprisoned in
Lochleven Castle, while her Protestant half-brother, James
Stewart, Earl of Moray, was appointed Regent on behalf of his
nephew. In early May 1568 Mary escaped, heading west to the
country of the Hamiltons, high among her remaining supporters, and
the safety of Dumbarton Castle with the determination to restore
her rights as queen. Mary was defeated and went into exile and
captivity in England. The Battle Of Langside was one of the most
unusual contests in Scottish history, bearing a superficial
resemblance to a grand family quarrel, in which a woman fought her
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Today,May 13, 2026
May 13, 1861: The American Civil War (The
Civil War, The War Between The States): The United Kingdom And The
American Civil War: -- Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues
a "Proclamation Of Neutrality" which recognizes the
breakaway states as having belligerent rights. The United Kingdom
(the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) remained
officially neutral throughout the American Civil War. While the UK
legally recognised the belligerent status of the Confederate
States of America (CSA), it never recognised it as a nation, and
neither signed a treaty with it nor exchanged ambassadors. Over 90
percent of Confederate trade with Britain ended, causing a severe
shortage of cotton by 1862; despite this, Britain financed
blockade runners that sent munitions and luxuries to Confederate
ports in return for cotton and tobacco. Top British officials
debated offering to mediate in the first 18 months, which the CSA
wanted but the U.S. strongly rejected. The British elite tended to
support the Confederacy, but ordinary people tended to support the
United States. Large-scale trade continued between Britain and the
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Today,May 13, 2026
(#JCKaelin here: I grew up 1/3rd of a
mile from where these railways were tested, and I knew people who
knew people who saw it operate, one of whom took a ride :) .)
========= May 13, 1880: Great Inventions: The History Of Rail
Transport (The History Of Railways): The History Of Rail
Transportation In The United States: The History Of Electric Rail
Transportation: -- Thomas Edison performs the first test of his
electric railway on a track about a third of a mile in length,
made up of light weight rails spiked to ties laid on the ground,
in Menlo Park, New Jersey (now Edison, New Jersey), The locomotive
pulled three cars: a flat freight-car, an open awning-car, and a
box-car called the "Pullman," with which Edison
illustrated a system of electromagnetic braking. Edison reportedly
moved away from this rail in 1881 after local officials and
businessmen persuaded him to build a longer road at Menlo Park,
equipped with more powerful locomotives that could demonstrate the
feasibility of putting electric railroads in other regions. A year
later, work was completed on two locomotives, one for freight and
the other for passenger service, for the electric railway.
Railroads played an important part in Edison's life. He and his
family moved to Michigan from Ohio when he was a boy after the
railroad bypassed his hometown in 1854 and business declined. Once
in Michigan, Edison sold candy and newspapers on trains. Edison
obtained the exclusive right to sell newspapers on the railroad.
He found four assistants and started up his own newspaper, the
Grand Trunk Herald, which he sold with his other papers. This was
Edison's first entrepreneurial venture and his first step toward
becoming a businessman. He also studied qualitative analysis and
conducted chemical experiments on the train until an accident
prohibited further work. Later, Edison became a telegraph operator
after he saved a toddler from being struck by a runaway train. The
boy's father was a station agent and, in gratitude, trained Edison
as a telegraph operator. Some of Edison's earliest inventions were
related to telegraphy, including a stock ticker. Edison's love of
trains stayed with him until his death. Just months before he
passed away, Lackawanna Railroad inaugurated suburban DC-based
electric train service from Hoboken to Montclair, Dover, and
Gladstone in New Jersey. Edison was at the throttle of the first
electric multiple-unit train to depart Lackawanna Terminal in
Hoboken in September 1930, driving the train the first mile
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Today,May 13, 2026
May 13, 1901: #BOTD: #HBD! Witold Pilecki
(codenames: Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafinski, Druh, Witold),
Polish cavalryman, intelligence officer and hero who was
voluntarily captured by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle
out information and start a resistance (d. May 25, 1948) is #born
in the town of Olonets, Karelia, in the Russian Empire. Witold
Pilecki served as a Rittmeister with the Polish Army during the
Polish-Soviet War, Second Polish Republic and World War II.
Pilecki was also a co-founder of the Secret Polish Army (Tajna
Armia Polska) a resistance group in German-occupied Poland and was
later a member of the underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa). He
was the author of Witold's Report, the first comprehensive Allied
intelligence report on Auschwitz concentration camp and the
Holocaust. He was a devout Catholic. During World War II, he
volunteered for a Polish resistance operation that involved being
deliberately captured by the Germans on September 19, 1940 in
order to become imprisoned in the Auschwitz death camp, so as to
gather intelligence about the camp, and later escape with that
information back to the Polish resistance. While in the camp,
Pilecki organized a resistance movement and, as early as 1941,
informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz
atrocities. He escaped from the camp in 1943 after nearly two and
a half years of imprisonment. Pilecki took part as a combatant in
the Warsaw Uprising in August-October 1944. He remained loyal to
the London-based Polish government-in-exile after the
Soviet-backed communist takeover of Poland and was arrested for
espionage in 1947 by the Stalinist secret police (Urzad
Bezpieczenstwa) on charges of working for "foreign
imperialism", thought to be a euphemism for British
Intelligence. He was executed after a show trial in 1948. Until
1989, information about his exploits and fate was suppressed by
the Polish communist regime. As a result of his efforts, he is
considered as "one of the greatest wartime heroes". In
the foreword to the book The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery,
Michael Schudrich, the Chief Rabbi of Poland, wrote as follows:
"When God created the human being, God had in mind that we
should all be like Captain Witold Pilecki, of blessed memory."
In the introduction to that book Norman Davies, a British
historian, wrote: "If there was an Allied hero who deserved
to be remembered and celebrated, this was a person with few
peers." At the commemoration event of International Holocaust
Remembrance Day held in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on
January 27, 2013 Ryszard Schnepf, the Polish Ambassador to the US,
described Pilecki as a "diamond among Poland's heroes"
and "the highest example of Polish patriotism". Witold
Pilecki died by execution by unspecified means after being
subjected to torture and a show trial in May 1948. Pilecki's
burial place has never been found, though it is thought to be in
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Today,May 13, 2026
May 13, 1912: Aviation: The History Of
Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: The Royal Flying Corps
(RFC): -- The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air
Force, is established in the United Kingdom. The Royal Flying
Corps was the air arm of the British Army before and during the
First World War, until it merged with the Royal Naval Air Service
on 1 April 1918 to form the Royal Air Force. During the early part
of the war, the RFC supported the British Army by artillery
co-operation and photographic reconnaissance. This work gradually
led RFC pilots into aerial battles with German pilots and later in
the war included the strafing of enemy infantry and emplacements,
the bombing of German military airfields and later the strategic
bombing of German industrial and transport facilities. At the
start of World War I the RFC, commanded by Brigadier-General Sir
David Henderson, consisted of five squadrons - one observation
balloon squadron (RFC No 1 Squadron) and four aeroplane squadrons.
These were first used for aerial spotting on 13 September 1914 but
only became efficient when they perfected the use of wireless
communication at Aubers Ridge on 9 May 1915. Aerial photography
was attempted during 1914, but again only became effective the
next year. By 1918, photographic images could be taken from 15,000
feet and were interpreted by over 3,000 personnel. Parachutes were
not available to pilots of heavier-than-air craft in the RFC - nor
were they used by the RAF during the First World War - although
the Calthrop Guardian Angel parachute (1916 model) was officially
adopted just as the war ended. By this time parachutes had been
used by balloonists for three years. On 17 August 1917, South
African General Jan Smuts presented a report to the War Council on
the future of air power. Because of its potential for the
'devastation of enemy lands and the destruction of industrial and
populous centres on a vast scale', he recommended a new air
service be formed that would be on a level with the Army and Royal
Navy. The formation of the new service would also make the
under-used men and machines of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS)
available for action on the Western Front and end the
inter-service rivalries that at times had adversely affected
aircraft procurement. On 1 April 1918, the RFC and the RNAS were
amalgamated to form a new service, the Royal Air Force (RAF),
under the control of the new Air Ministry. After starting in 1914
with some 2,073 personnel, by the start of 1919 the RAF had 4,000
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Today,May 13, 2026
May 13, 1914: #BOTD: #HBD! Joe Louis, African American boxer and wrestler nicknamed the Brown Bomber, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential boxers of all time who competed as a professional boxer from 1934 to 1951 (d. April 12, 1981) is #born Joseph Louis Barrow to sharecropping and tenant farming family in a ramshackle dwelling on Bell Chapel Road in rural Chambers County, Alabama. Louis reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 until his temporary retirement in 1949. He was victorious in 25 consecutive title defenses, a record for all weight classes. Louis had the longest single reign as champion of any boxer in history. Louis's cultural impact was felt well outside the ring. He is widely regarded as the first person of African American descent to achieve the status of a nationwide hero within the United States, and was also a focal point of anti-Nazi sentiment leading up to and during World War II because of his historic rematch with German boxer Max Schmeling in 1938. When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party took over control in Germany, Schmeling came to be viewed as a Nazi puppet. In 1936, Schmeling knocked out American rising star Joe Louis, placing him as the number one contender for Jim Braddock's title, but Louis got the fight and knocked Braddock out to win the championship in 1937. Schmeling finally got a chance to regain his title in 1938, but Louis knocked him out in one round. Schmeling thereafter became life-long friends with Louis, lasting until Louis' death in 1981. Joe Louis was instrumental in integrating the game of golf, breaking the sport's color barrier in America by appearing under a sponsor's exemption in a PGA event in 1952. Joe Louis died of cardiac arrest in Desert Springs Hospital near Las Vegas, just hours after his last public appearance viewing the Larry Holmes-Trevor Berbick Heavyweight Championship. Ronald Reagan waived the eligibility rules for burial at Arlington National Cemetery and Louis was buried there with full military honors on April 21, 1981. His funeral was paid for in part by former competitor and friend, Max Schmeling, who also acted as a pallbearer. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/grde7padosem.html
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May 13, 1922: #BOTD: #HBD! Bea Arthur,
American actress, singer and comedian (d. April 25, 2009) is #born
Bernice Frankel in the Brooklyn borough of New York City into the
Jewish immigrant family of Rebecca Pressner Frankel from Austria
and Philip Frankel from Poland. During World War II, Beatrice
Arthur enlisted as one of the first members of the United States
Marine Corps Women's Reserve in 1943. After basic training, she
served as a typist at Marine headquarters in Washington, D.C. In
June 1943, the Marine Corps accepted her transfer request to the
Motor Transport School at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Frankel
then worked as a truck driver and dispatcher in Cherry Point,
North Carolina, between 1944 and 1945. She was honorably
discharged at the rank of staff sergeant in September 1945. After
serving in the Marines, Frankel studied for a year at the Franklin
School of Science and Arts in Philadelphia, where she became a
licensed medical technician. After interning at a local hospital
for the summer, she decided against working as a lab technician,
departing for New York City in 1947 to enroll in the School of
Drama at The New School. Bea Arthur began her career on stage in
1947, attracting critical acclaim before achieving worldwide
recognition for her work on television beginning in the 1970s as
Maude Findlay in the popular sitcoms All in the Family (1971-1972)
and Maude (1972-1978) and later in the 1980s and 1990s as Dorothy
Zbornak on The Golden Girls (1985-1992). Arthur won several
accolades throughout her career, beginning with the 1966 Tony
Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for playing Vera
Charles in Mame. She won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress
in a Comedy Series in 1977 for Maude and 1988 for The Golden
Girls. Arthur has received the third most nominations for the
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy
Series with nine; only Julia Louis-Dreyfus (11) and Mary Tyler
Moore (10) have more. She was inducted into the academy's
Television Hall of Fame in 2008. Her film appearances include
Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) and the film version of Mame
(1974). In 2002, she starred in the one-woman show Bea Arthur on
Broadway: Just Between Friends. An obituary described Arthur as
"the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of
comedy lines made her a TV star." Bea Arthur died of lung
cancer at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, aged 86. Arthur was
survived by her sister, Marian Frankel Gray, and two children.
Arthur's body was cremated, and her ashes were given to her
family. On April 28, 2009, the Broadway community paid tribute to
Arthur by dimming the marquees of New York City's Broadway theater
district in her memory for one minute at 8:00 p.m. On September
16, 2009, a public tribute to Arthur was held at the Majestic
Theatre in Manhattan, where friends and colleagues including
Angela Lansbury, Norman Lear, Rosie O'Donnell and Rue McClanahan
paid tribute to the actress. Arthur's surviving co-stars from The
Golden Girls, McClanahan and White, commented on her death via
telephone on an April 27 episode of Larry King Live. On the Today
Show by phone, McClanahan said she and Arthur got along together
"like cream." White said "I knew it would hurt, I
just didn't know it would hurt this much." Longtime friends
Adrienne Barbeau (with whom she had worked on Maude) and Angela
Lansbury (with whom she had worked in Mame) reflected on her
death. Barbeau said, "We've lost a unique, incredible talent.
No one could deliver a line or hold a take like Bea and no one was
more generous or giving to her fellow performers." Lansbury
said, "She became and has remained my bosom buddy [...] I am
deeply saddened by her passing, but also relieved that she is
released from the pain." Arthur bequeathed 300K USD to the
Ali Forney Center, a New York City organization that provides
housing for homeless LGBT youths. The center was heavily damaged
in October 2012 by Hurricane Sandy, but has since been restored
and re-opened. The Bea Arthur Residence, which opened in 2017, is
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Today,May 13, 2026
May 13, 1926: #BOTD: #HBD! Dewey
Phillips, American soldier and rock and roll disc jockey pioneer
(d. 1968) is #born in Crump, Tennessee. Dewey "Daddy-O"
Phillips' radio format ran along the lines of Cleveland's Alan
Freed, before Freed came along. On July 10, 1954, he was the first
DJ to broadcast the young Elvis Presley's debut record, "That's
All Right/Blue Moon Of Kentucky" (Sun 209). Phillips got
Presley to reveal his race in an interview by asking which high
school the 19-year-old singer attended (knowing that, because of
segregation, his audience would readily know what race attended
which schools). Phillips spent his childhood in Adamsville. After
serving in the Army during World War II, seeing action in the
Battle of Huertgen Forest, he moved to Memphis. He started his
radio career in 1949 on WHBQ/560 in Memphis with a special studio
at the Gayoso Hotel. In 1953 WHBQ moved to the mezzanine floor of
the Chisca Hotel. Dewey Phillips was the city's leading radio
personality for nine years and was the first to simulcast his
"Red, Hot & Blue" show on radio and television.
During the 1950s he had 100,000 listeners to his 9pm-midnight slot
and he received 3,000 letters a week. Phillips' on-air persona was
a speed-crazed hillbilly, with a frantic delivery and entertaining
sense of humor. He also had a keen ear for music the listening
public would enjoy, and he aired both black and white music, which
was abundant in post-World War II Memphis, a booming river city
which attracted large numbers of rural blacks and whites (along
with their musical traditions). Dr.W. Herbert Brewster, pastor of
East Trigg Baptist Church was a frequent guest on Dewey's program.
He played a great deal of rhythm and blues, country music,
boogie-woogie, and jazz as well as Sun Records artists. In 1950,
Phillips and his friend Sam Phillips (no relation) decided to
launch their own record label. Joe Hill Louis waxed an electric
blues single, "Boogie in the Park" (recorded in July
1950 and released the following month). It was the only record
released on the Phillips label before Sam founded Sun Records.
Dewey Phillips was bringing Black Music to segregated Memphis
before Alan Freed did the same as Moon Dog,in Cleveland. Phillips
briefly hosted an afternoon program on WHBQ-TV/13 in the
mid-1950s, before Dick Clark took over Philadelphia Bandstand then
American Bandstand on WFIL-TV. It mostly consisted of Phillips
playing records while he and others clowned around in front of the
camera. Though Phillips was not involved in the payola scandals of
the time (as was Freed), he was fired in late 1958 when the
station adopted a Top 40 format, phasing out his freeform style.
He had Sam Phillips and three other friends, Wink Martindale, T.L.
Meade,and Sonny Gilmore to bail him out and keep him steady as
work and recognition faded. He spent the last decade of his life
working at smaller radio stations, seldom lasting long. The
popular musical Memphis is said to be based loosely on Dewey
Phillips' life and career, although elements crucial in the career
of Phillips' contemporary Alan Freed appear to be intermixed as
well. A heavy drinker and longtime drug user (primarily
painkillers and amphetamines, which contributed to his manic
on-air behavior), Phillips died of heart failure at age 42. He is
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May 13, 1927: #BOTD: #HBD! Fred
Hellerman, American folk singer-songwriter, guitarist, and
producer, an original member of the seminal American folk group
The Weavers, together with Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Ronnie
Gilbert (d. September 1, 2016) is #born in Brooklyn, New York to
Jewish parents. He produced the record album Alice's Restaurant
(1967) for Arlo Guthrie, played accompaniment guitar on scores of
folk albums, and wrote a number of folk and protest songs.
Hellerman was the youngest of three children. His father, Harry,
was an immigrant from Riga, Latvia and mother, Clara (nee
Robinson), was born in the United States to immigrants from Riga.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949 at Brooklyn College.
In 1948, Hellerman formed the Weavers with Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert,
and Lee Hays. Hellerman wrote and co-wrote some of their hits. He
also wrote under the aliases Fred Brooks and Bob Hill. Because of
his involvement with left-wing groups during the 1930s and 1940s,
Hellerman came under suspicion of Communist sympathies during the
McCarthy era. In 1950, Hellerman was named, along with the rest of
the Weavers, in the anti-communist tract Red Channels and was
placed on the industry blacklist. In February 1952, an FBI
informant testified that the Weavers were members of the Communist
party. The group, unable to perform on television, radio, or in
most music halls, broke up in 1952, but resumed singing in 1955.
They continued together until 1963 (with changes in personnel). He
also played on Joan Baez's eponymous first album in 1960. The
Weavers held several reunion concerts in 1980, shortly before
Hays' death, which were documented in the film The Weavers: Wasn't
That a Time! (1982). Hellermen, writing under the name of Fred
Brooks, arranged "Green Grow the Lilacs" on Harry
Belafonte's 1959 album, Love is a Gentle Thing. The song was based
on a traditional song of Irish origin that was widely sung in the
US in the 19th century with different lyrics. Hellerman wrote two
original verses and adapted the chorus. Hellerman married the
writer Susan Lardner, the daughter of John Lardner, in 1970. The
Hellermans had two children, Caleb and Simeon. Hellerman was the
last surviving original member of the Weavers. He died on
September 1, 2016, at his home in Weston, Connecticut, at the age
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May 13, 1931: #BOTD: Jim Jones, American
preacher and faith healer turned cult leader, founder of the
Peoples Temple who conspired with his inner circle to direct a
mass murder-suicide of his followers in his jungle commune at
Jonestown, Guyana (d. November 18, 1978) is #born James Warren
Jones, in the rural community of Crete, Indiana, to James Thurman
Jones (October 21, 1887 - May 29, 1951) and Lynetta Jones nee
Putnam (April 16, 1902 - December 10, 1977). Jones was of Irish
and Welsh descent; he and his mother both claimed to also have
some Cherokee ancestry, but there is no evidence of this. Jim
Jones launched the Peoples Temple in Indiana during the 1950s.
Rev. Jones was ordained in 1957 by the Independent Assemblies of
God and in 1964 by the Disciples of Christ. He moved his
congregation to California in 1965 and gained notoriety with its
activities in San Francisco in the 1970s. He then left the United
States, bringing many members to a Guyana jungle commune. In 1978,
media reports surfaced of human rights abuses in the Peoples
Temple in Jonestown. U.S. Representative Leo Ryan led a delegation
to the commune to investigate. Ryan and others were murdered by
gunfire while boarding a return flight with some former cult
members who had wished to leave. Jones then ordered and likely
coerced a mass suicide and mass murder of 918 commune members, 304
of them children, almost all by cyanide-poisoned Flavor Aid. The
drink became linked to the Jonestown mass murder-and-suicide when
it was learned that the cyanide poison taken by or forcibly
administered to the commune's members was placed in Flavor Aid.
Large barrels filled with the grape variety, laced with the
cyanide and a variety of tranquilizer drugs, were found
half-consumed amidst the hundreds of bodies. Kool-Aid, rather than
Flavor Aid, is usually erroneously referred to as the drink used
in the massacre, most likely due to it having become a Generic
trademark. The association with Kool-Aid has spawned the figure of
speech "drink the Kool-Aid" but is regarded by some
sources as a factual error. Others insist this was not a factual
error as both Kool-Aid and Flavor Aid were found among the
commune's supplies: film footage shot inside the compound prior to
the events of November shows Jones opening a large chest in which
boxes of both Flavor Aid and Kool-Aid are visible. Criminal
investigators testifying at the Jonestown inquest spoke of finding
packets of "cool aid" (sic), and eyewitnesses to the
incident are also recorded as speaking of "cool aid" or
"Cool Aid." Jim Jones' remains were cremated, and the
ashes scattered at sea, along with seven others who died in the
1978 Jonestown Massacre, by long-time funeral director Bill
Torbert Sr. from a single-engine Piper plane on a spring day in
1979 across the Atlantic Ocean, a mile off of Bethany Beach,
Delaware. "After the ashes were put in the ocean, we couldn't
close the door," Torbert said. "We had to hold it until
it landed." More than 400 unclaimed bodies of the Jonestown
mass suicide are buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland,
California. In 2011, four additional memorial plaques were placed
at the site with the names of all 918 people who died in the
incident. The new memorial controversially includes the name of
Jim Jones, the leader who ordered the mass suicide. The organizers
intended the memorial to be "for historical purposes, listing
everyone who died there," including the news reporters and
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May 13, 1939: The History Of
Broadcasting: The History Of Radio Broadcasting: FM Broadcasting:
The History Of FM Broadcasting: The History Of Commercial Radio
Broadcasting: -- The first commercial FM radio station in the
United States, W1XPW, is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut by
radio technology pioneer Franklin Doolittle. At Doolittle's
instance, it soon began simulcasting WDRC-AM, and by September
1940 it was broadcasting a regular 12-hour programming schedule
that was separate from WDRC, transmitting from Meriden Mountain in
Meriden, CT. Between 1939 and 1941, W1XPW was involved in
groundbreaking relay test broadcasts, some of which ranged as far
as Alpine, NJ, where the first FM radio station was located, to
Mount Washington, NH. As the 1940s began, W1XPW and the rest of
Doolittle's stations grew in audience numbers, advertising, and
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May 13, 1940: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The German Invasion Of Western Europe (World War
II) (Sieg Im Westen [German: "Victory In The West"], The
Manstein Plan, Fall Gelb [German: "Case Yellow",
Unternehmen Sichelschnitt, "Operation Sickle Cut"): The
Battle Of France (The Western Campaign [German: Westfeldzug], The
French Campaign [German: Frankreichfeldzug; French: Campagne De
France], The Fall Of France): -- Germany's conquest of France
begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. The Battle Of
France (May 10 - June 25, 1940, French: Bataille De France,
German: Westfeldzug), also known as the Fall Of France, was the
German invasion of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
during the Second World War. On September 3, 1939, France had
declared war on Germany, following the German Invasion Of Poland.
In early September 1939, France began the limited Saar Offensive.
By mid-October, the French had withdrawn to their start lines. The
Germans invaded Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands on May 10,
Italy entered the war on June 10, and German forces defeated the
Allies on June 25. 1940. France and the Low Countries were
conquered, ending land operations on the Western Front until the
Normandy landings on June 6, 1944. In Fall Gelb (Case Yellow),
German armoured units made a surprise push through the Ardennes
and then along the Somme valley, cutting off and surrounding the
Allied units that had advanced into Belgium to meet the expected
German invasion. British, Belgian and French forces were pushed
back to the sea by the German armies and the British evacuated the
British Expeditionary Force (BEF), French and Belgian troops from
Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo. German forces began Fall Rot (Case
Red) on June 5, 1940. The sixty remaining French divisions and the
two British divisions in France made a determined stand on the
Somme and Aisne but were defeated by the German combination of air
superiority and armoured mobility. German tanks outflanked the
Maginot Line and pushed deep into France, occupying Paris
unopposed on June 14. After the flight of the French government
and the collapse of the French Army, German commanders met with
French officials on June 18 to negotiate an end to hostilities. On
June 22, 1940, the Second Armistice at Compiegne was signed by
France and Germany. The neutral Vichy government led by Marshal
Philippe Petain superseded the Third Republic and Germany occupied
the North Sea and Atlantic coasts of France and their hinterlands.
The Italian invasion of France over the Alps took a small amount
of ground and after the armistice, Italy occupied a small
occupation zone in the south-east. The Vichy regime retained the
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May 13, 1940: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The German Invasion Of Western Europe (World War
II) (Sieg Im Westen [German: "Victory In The West"], The
Manstein Plan, Fall Gelb [German: "Case Yellow",
Unternehmen Sichelschnitt, "Operation Sickle Cut"): The
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French Campaign [German: Frankreichfeldzug; French: Campagne De
France], The Fall Of France); The Battle Of Belgium (The German
Invasion Of Belgium [1940], The Invasion Of Belgium, The Belgian
Campaign, The 18 Days' Campaign); The Battle Of Luxembourg (The
German Invasion Of Luxembourg); The Battle Of The Netherlands (The
German Invasion Of The Netherlands): -- Queen Wilhelmina Of The
Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the German
invasion. Princess Juliana of the Netherlands takes her children
to Canada for their safety. The German Invasion Of The Netherlands
(Dutch: Slag Om Nederland), also known as The Battle Of The
Netherlands, was a military campaign part of Case Yellow (German:
Fall Gelb), the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium,
Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) and France during World War II.
The battle lasted from May 10, 1940 until the surrender of the
main Dutch forces on May 14. Dutch troops in the province of
Zealand continued to resist the Wehrmacht until May 17 when
Germany completed its occupation of the whole country. The
invasion of the Netherlands saw some of the earliest mass
paratroop drops, to occupy tactical points and assist the advance
of ground troops. The German Luftwaffe used paratroopers in the
capture of several airfields in the vicinity of Rotterdam and The
Hague, helping to quickly overrun the country and immobilise Dutch
forces. After the devastating bombing of Rotterdam by the
Luftwaffe on May 14, the Germans threatened to bomb other Dutch
cities if the Dutch forces refused to surrender. The General Staff
knew it could not stop the bombers and ordered the Dutch Army to
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May 13, 1940: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The German Invasion Of Western Europe (World War
II) (Sieg Im Westen [German: "Victory In The West"], The
Manstein Plan, Fall Gelb [German: "Case Yellow",
Unternehmen Sichelschnitt, "Operation Sickle Cut"): The
Battle Of France (The Western Campaign [German: Westfeldzug], The
French Campaign [German: Frankreichfeldzug; French: Campagne De
France], The Fall Of France); The Battle Of Belgium (The German
Invasion Of Belgium [1940], The Invasion Of Belgium, The Belgian
Campaign, The 18 Days' Campaign); The Battle Of Luxembourg (The
German Invasion Of Luxembourg); The Battle Of The Netherlands (The
German Invasion Of The Netherlands): -- Newly appointed British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil,
tears, and sweat" speech to the House Of Commons. Three days
prior, May 10, 1940, General warfare erupted for the first time on
the Western Front during World War II as Germany invades France
and the low countries of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg
according the German Manstein Plan. On the same day, Winston
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May 13, 1943: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The North African Campaign: The Tunisian Campaign
(The Battle Of Tunisia): Operation Strike: -- Following the
successes of Operation Vulcan (April 22 - May 6, 1943) and
Operation Strike (May 6-12, 1943), the final ground attack by the
Allied forces against the Italian and German forces in Tunis, over
250,000 Germans of the Afrika Corps and Italians surrendered as
all remaining Axis forces in Tunisia, under the command of Marshal
Giovanni Messe, surrendered unconditionally in the last few days
of the Tunis campaign. British General Harold Alexander then
telegraphed news of the victory to Winston Churchill, who was in
Washington attending a war conference. The victory re-opened
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May 13, 1943: #BOTD: #HBD! Mary Wells,
African American singer and songwriter known as The Queen Of
Motown, who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the
early 1960s (d. July 26, 1992) is #born Mary Esther Wells near
Detroit's Wayne State University. Along with The Supremes, The
Miracles, The Temptations, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, and
the Four Tops, Wells was part of the charge in black music onto
radio stations and record shelves of mainstream America, bridging
the color lines in music at the time. With a string of hit singles
composed mainly by Smokey Robinson, including "The One Who
Really Loves You", "Two Lovers", and the
Grammy-nominated "You Beat Me to the Punch", all in
1962, plus her signature hit, "My Guy" (1964), she
became recognized as "The Queen of Motown" until shed
departured the company in 1964 over a contract dispute at the
height of her success. Wells's cancer returned and she was rushed
to the Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital in Los Angeles with
pneumonia. With the effects of her unsuccessful treatments and a
weakened immune system, Wells died of cancer in Los Angeles,
California at the age of 49. After her funeral, which included a
eulogy given by her old friend and former collaborator, Smokey
Robinson, Wells was cremated, and her ashes were laid to rest in
Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in a crypt owned by her
former musical collaborators the Womack family. Family friend Sam
Cooke is buried in The Garden Of Honor, about 850 feet to the
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May 13, 1949: #BOTD: #HBD! Zoe Wanamaker
CBE, British stage, move and television actress who has worked
extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National
Theatre who has received numerous accolades including a Laurence
Olivier Award and nominations for three BAFTA Awards, and four
Tony Awards, is #born in New York City to Canadian actress and
radio performer Charlotte Holland and American actor, film
director, and radio producer Sam Wanamaker (born Samuel
Wattenmacker). Her father was of Ukrainian-Jewish descent,
although she had a secular and non-observant upbringing. Whilst
working in the United Kingdom in 1952, Wanamaker's father found
out he had been blacklisted in Hollywood. Her parents therefore
decided to remain in the UK. A nine-time Olivier Award nominee,
she won for Once in a Lifetime (1979) and Electra (1998). She has
also received four Tony Award nominations for her work on
Broadway; for Piaf (1981), Loot (1986), Electra (1999), and Awake
and Sing! (2006). She's acted in the films Wilde (1997), Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), and My Week with
Marilyn (2011). She was twice nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for
Best Actress, for Prime Suspect (1991) and Love Hurts (1992-1994).
She portrayed Susan Harper in the sitcom My Family (2000-2011),
and appeared in the ITV dramas Agatha Christie's Poirot
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May 13, 1950: #BOTD: #HBD! Stevie Wonder,
African American child prodigy, singer-songwriter, record producer
and multi-instrumentalist, one of the most critically and
commercially successful musical performers of the late 20th
century, is #born Stevland Hardaway Judkins in Saginaw, Michigan,
1950, the third of five children born to Lula Mae Hardaway, and
the second of Hardaway's two children with Calvin Judkins. He was
born six weeks premature which, along with the oxygen-rich
atmosphere in the hospital incubator, resulted in retinopathy of
prematurity, a condition in which the growth of the eyes is
aborted and causes the retinas to detach, so he became blind. When
Stevie was signed by Motown at the age of 11, his surname was
legally changed from Judkins to Morris, which (according to Lula
Mae Hardaway's authorized biography) was an old family name. Berry
Gordy was responsible for creating the stage name of "Little
Stevie Wonder" when he signed him to Motown's Tamla label in
1961; he continued performing and recording for Motown into the
2010s. Among Wonder's works are singles such as "Signed,
Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours", "Superstition", "Sir
Duke", "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" and "I
Just Called to Say I Love You"; and albums such as Talking
Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded
more than 30 U.S. top ten hits and received 25 Grammy Awards, one
of the most-awarded male solo artists, and has sold over 100
million records worldwide, making him one of the top 60
best-selling music artists. Wonder is also noted for his work as
an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to
make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United
States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of
Peace. In 2013, Billboard magazine released a list of the
Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles
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Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: De Gaulle
And France TV Series DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today,May 13, 2026
May 13, 1958: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Decolonisation Of Africa: The Algerian War
(The Algerian Revolution, The Algerian War Of Independence): The
May 1958 Crisis (The Algiers Putsch, The Coup Of 13 May): -- A
group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding
that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de
Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
The May 1958 Crisis was a political crisis in France during the
turmoil of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62) which led to
the return of Charles de Gaulle to political responsibilities
after a twelve-year absence. It started as a coup attempt led at
Algiers on 13 May 1958 by a coalition headed by Algiers deputy and
reserve airborne officer Pierre Lagaillarde, French Generals Raoul
Salan, Edmond Jouhaud, Jean Gracieux, and Jacques Massu, and by
Admiral Philippe Auboyneau, commander of the Mediterranean fleet.
The putsch was supported by former Algerian Governor General
Jacques Soustelle and his activist allies. Carried out in the
context of the Algerian War, the putsch had as its aim to oppose
the formation of Pierre Pflimlin's new government and to impose a
change of policies in favor of the right-wing partisans of French
Algeria. The crisis marked the return of Charles de Gaulle to
political affairs after a decade of absence, and set in motion the
events which would lead to the establishment of the Fifth
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Today's
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Today,May 13, 2026
May 13, 1960: Freedom Of Speech: Freedom
Of Speech In The United States: Counterculture Of The 1960s:
Student Rights: The New Left: Student Rights In Higher Education:
Student Protests: The 1960s Berkeley Protests: SLATE:
Anti-Communism In The United States: The Red Scare: The Second Red
Scare: The House Committee On Un-American Activities (HCUA) (The
House Un-American Activities Committee [HUAC]): Police Riots: The
May 13 Berkeley Protest: -- Hundreds of University of California,
Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against
a visit to San Francisco by The House Committee On Un-American
Activities (HUAC). While the committee was holding hearings in San
Francisco City Hall, a police riot occurred against the student
peaceful protestors when city police officers fire-hosed students
from the UC Berkeley, Stanford, and other local colleges, and
dragged them down the marble steps beneath the rotunda, leaving
some seriously injured. Soviet affairs expert William Mandel, who
had been subpoenaed to testify, angrily denounced the committee
and the police in a blistering statement which was aired
repeatedly for years thereafter on Pacifica Radio station KPFA in
Berkeley. In response to these protests, HUAC produced the film
"Operation Abolition" in an attempt to characterize
these protests as as communist inspired. In response, the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) produced the film "Operation
Correction" as a rebuttal to HUAC's film and to further the
same case against the committee that the students activists made
against the committee. Both films are featured in their entirety
at in the EarthStation1 MediaOutlet "Fight Against
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EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The 1989
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Today,May 13, 2026
May 13, 1989: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: Democracy Movements Of China : The Revolutions
Of 1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of
Communism): The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests And Massacre (The
June Fourth Incident, The Tiananmen Square Massacre., The '89
Democracy Movement, The Tiananmen Square Incident, The Tiananmen
Uprising): The Students' Hunger Strike At The 1989 Tiananmen
Square Protests: -- Some 300,000 students occupy Tiananmen Square
and begin a hunger strike that galvanized support for the
demonstrators around the country, and the protests spread to
universities in some 400 other cities, with many students
traveling to Beijing to join the demonstration. Students timed the
hunger strike to begin two days before the highly publicized state
visit by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Knowing that the
welcoming ceremony for Gorbachev was scheduled to be held on the
Square, student leaders wanted to use the hunger strike there to
force the government into meeting their demands. Moreover, the
hunger strike gained widespread sympathy from the population at
large and earned the student movement the moral high ground that
it sought. Generally, the demonstration at Tiananmen Square was
well ordered, with daily marches of students from various
Beijing-area colleges displaying their solidarity with the class
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Babes
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Today,May 13, 2026
May 13: National Drew Day: -- On this
day, everyone bearing the name Drew is honored for their
achievements. Contrary to popular belief, Drew is a stand-alone
name, although it is also used as the short form of Andrew. The
name was derived from Andrew, but some people have used it as a
standalone since 1942. Drew is of Greek origin and means "strong
and manly." It is mainly used as a boy's name, as about 92%
more boys are named Drew than girls. The name Drew used to be a
male-only alternative to Andy, but since Hollywood actress Drew
Barrymore took the stage, the name gradually became more common
among girls. However, it's still seen as more of a masculine name
than a feminine one. The name is not widespread and can be found
mainly in North America and Europe. Drew is the 764th most common
name in the United States, with approximately 54,638 people
bearing it. Statistics about Drew show that, for every 100,000
Americans, there are 17.14 people named Drew. This statistic is
provided by the Social Security Administration and is based on 100
years of data. Drew is mainly used by White people. They account
for 82.1% of people with the name, while Blacks make up 12.1%.
Hispanics are at 2.7%, Asians or Pacific Islanders at 1.1%, mixed
races at 1.4%, and American Indians or Alaskan Natives at 0.6%.
Texas has 4,152 Drews and holds the record for the state with the
most people with the name. However, you are more likely to meet a
Drew in Utah because there are about 35.18 people named Drew for
every 100,000 Utah residents. There aren't a lot of famous people
named Drew from birth. The most popular person with the name is
the "Charlie's Angels" star, Drew Barrymore. Others use
it as a nickname for Andrew, like the W.W.E. pro wrestler, Drew
McIntyre. National Drew Day presents an opportunity to celebrate
the few people named Drew.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
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Today,May 13, 2026May 13: National Anita Day: -- Anita is a
female name of Spanish origin, meaning 'graceful.' It is a classic
name with widespread popularity and can be a short form of the
Spanish name, Juanita. Once a top 100 name, hundreds of famous
people have borne it over a couple of centuries, like American
lawyer Anita Hill, singer Anita Baker, and Anita Pointer,
co-founder of the vocal group the Pointer Sisters. National Anita
Day is a time to remember and celebrate all women named Anita and
be thankful for their impact on our lives. The name Anita has
found acceptance in many parts of the world due to its classic and
simple nature. It is more commonly known as a variation of the
term Anna or Ana in western countries. It is also a feminine
version of the Indian word 'Anit,' which means "unending
joy." The name was first used in 1880 and was given to 16
newborn babies. The title hit an all-time high in 1956, with over
400 female children bearing it. Statistics have shown that at
least 100 people named Anita for every 100,000 Americans. More
than 214,000 people have registered with the name Anita over the
years. Anita embodies grace and favor, as seen by several
well-known women and their accomplishments. These soft qualities
are well recognized to be displayed by many famous ladies,
including Dutch singer Anita Meyer, American R.&.B and soul
singer Anita Baker, Spanish Flamenco singer and dancer Anita
Delgado, and many more. On the other hand, many other Anitas have
entered more risky professions, opening doors for both themselves
and other women. These women have made an impression in a variety
of fields, including gymnastics, politics, international affairs,
and competitive sports. Anita has been given a bold, distinctive
personality by people like American lawyer and women's rights
activist Anita Faye Hill, freestyle wrestlers Anita Schatzle and
Anita Sheoran, and jazz vocalist Anita O'Day. One reason to
respect the name and what it stands for is the variety in their
natures.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Mark
Twain Documentaries & Radio Shows DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today,May 13, 2026May 13: National Frog Jumping Day: --
Have we got the history behind how this day started! While the
name itself may seem rather vague, its origins come from Mark
Twain's first published short story about a betting man and his
pet frog. Did you know that there are approximately 7,300 species
of frogs around the world and the most colorful ones are the most
poisonous? National Frog Jumping Day is important because it
brings literature to life, as well as brings awareness to
different kinds of frogs and their impact within our ecosystem.
The history behind National Frog Jumping Day has turned into a
tradition that came to life from the idea of a short story. Mark
Twain, one of the most famous and celebrated authors in
literature, published his first short story named "The
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" in 1865. This
story also goes by "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" and
"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." The
premise of the story is about a man named Jim Smiley, a compulsive
better. He trains a pet frog he names Dan'l Webster and bets his
frog can jump higher than all the other frogs in town. The man who
he bets with ends up tricking Smiley and wins the bet. Inspired by
this story, Calaveras County in Northern California started
hosting a Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee during
the third week of May. The first event was held in Copperopolis,
California in 1893 but has since made its permanent residence in
Angels Camp. The fair spans four days and offers classic fair
food, award-winning wines, carnival rides, rodeo, and live music,
amongst other things, but their main event is the frog jumping
competition. One frog named Rosie the Ribeter has held the jumping
record at 21 feet, 5 _ inches since 1986. Even though there are
other frog jumping competitions throughout different cities in
North America, the one at Calaveras is the most popular and
well-known because of its relation to Mark Twain's short story.
This day allows people to celebrate the agility of frogs and to
embrace literature in a new and exciting way.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: World
War II Propaganda Cartoons MP4 Video Download 2 DVD Set
Today,May 13, 2026May 13: Tulip Day: -- A day to celebrate
these beautiful, brightly-colored, spring-blooming flowers! Tulips
originated in Central Asia, where they grew wild, though
cultivation of the flower began in Turkey around 1000 A.D. From
then on, they became highly prized in the Ottoman Empire, such
that they were specially cultivated for the pleasure of the
Sultan. The flower's sojourn to Europe took place in the 16th
century when they were planted in the Netherlands for medicinal
purposes. Today, tulips are still heavily associated with the
European country. The origins of Tulip Day are largely unknown.
However, the tulip flower itself has a rich and colorful history.
It all began in Central Asia, where the tulip flower grew wild.
However, it wasn't intentionally cultivated until around 1000 A.D.
in Turkey, where it was grown for medicinal purposes. It grew in
popularity in the Ottoman Empire during the 16th century, such
that it became a favorite of the Sultan, who demanded its
cultivation for his enjoyment. In the 18th century, the 'Tulip
Era' or the 'Age of the Tulips' began, with the flower's fame
rising to dizzying heights. It even became a crime punishable by
exile to buy or sell tulips outside the empire's capital. The
tulip made its debut in Europe when a biologist called Carolus
Clusius began planting it in Holland, Netherlands, during the 16th
century. The University of Leiden hired Clusius to perform
research on medicinal plants. Clusius' Turkish friend, who was the
ambassador of Constantinople (Istanbul), sent tulips to him for
the project. This was the genesis of the tulip bulb fields in the
Netherlands, which are still in existence today. In the 17th
century, the tulip moved from being merely medicinal and became a
garden flower for beautification, causing prices to soar. This
eventually led to 'Tulipomania' or 'Tulip Mania,' a period when
tulips became so sought-after that they became a currency of
sorts. The love of tulips became so frenzied that people would
exchange their property for a single tulip. The Dutch government
even had to place restrictions on tulip trading. Eventually, the
tulip market crashed in 1637, leaving those with heavy investments
in the flower at the losing end. Today, tulips are still
associated with the Netherlands, the world's largest producer of
tulip bulbs.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today,May 13, 2026May 13: National Leprechaun Day: --
Though the exact history of National Leprechaun Day is unknown,
what is clear is that it is a day dedicated to celebrating
leprechauns, supernatural beings in Irish folklore The legend of
leprechauns can be traced back to the 8th century when lore began
to spread among the Celts. Whether or not you believe they exist,
today's a good day to let your imagination run loose. The legend
of leprechauns supposedly emerged during the 8th century when
tales about tiny water-inhabitants began to spread among the
Celts. The word 'leprechaun' is said to be derived from the old
Irish word 'luchorpain,' meaning "little body" or
'lobaircin,' which means "small-bodied fellow."
According to Irish folklore, a leprechaun is a supernatural being,
fairy, sprite, pixie, or pygmy, often portrayed as a short,
mischievous, red-bearded old man in a green coat and hat. A
leprechaun is also believed to possess a pot of gold which can be
found at the end of a rainbow. However, they are solitary
creatures who spend their time cobbling shoes, playing pranks, and
dancing the jig. In the past, leprechauns were believed to wear
red clothing. This all changed when poet William Allingham wrote a
poem about a leprechaun dressed in green. They are believed to
carry around a tiny hammer for shoe-making, the sound of which can
be heard tap-tapping nails into a shoe. Several superstitions
abound concerning the leprechaun's pot of gold. Some believe that
if a human catches a leprechaun, the creature will have to
surrender its gold. Another belief is that rather than hand it
over, the leprechaun will reveal the hiding place of the pot of
gold unless it can trick the human and vanish. Several parks and
museums around the world are dedicated to leprechauns, such as the
Leprechaun Park in Oregon, U.S., Leprechaun Cavern in Carlingford,
Ireland, and Leprechaun Museum in Dublin, Ireland.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: G.I.
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Today,May 13, 2026May 13: Children Of Fallen Patriots Day:
-- A day that aims to honor the pain and sacrifice of children who
have lost a parent to martyrdom. The objective is to appreciate
the young individuals who live tragically altered lives due to a
parent passing away in the line of duty. Children of Fallen
Patriots Day was established by the Children of Fallen Patriots
Foundation in 2014, an organization that provides financial
education and educational counseling to Gold Star scholars who
have a martyred parent. May 13 was chosen as Children of Fallen
Patriots Day because it was the day the Arlington National
Cemetery was established in 1864. The U.S. Armed Forces consist of
the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast
Guard. The U.S. Armed Forces originated back on June 14, 1775,
when the Continental Army was formed before the Declaration of
Independence and the consequent establishment of the U.S. The
Continental Navy and the Continental Marines were established soon
after to aid in the American Revolutionary War. These forces were
eventually dismantled after the Revolution. The U.S. Army, Navy,
and Marine Forces were set up between 1784 and 1798. The President
of the U.S. was situated as the Commander-in-Chief of the entirety
of the Armed Forces. The U.S. Coast Guard was formed in 1790 as
the Revenue Cutter Service. The U.S. Air Force was set up on
September 18, 1947. The U.S. Space Force was established in
December 2019 as the first new branch of the U.S. military in over
72 years. Before this, the Air Force Space Command functioned as a
major command of the Air Force. The individuals who form the Armed
Forces risk losing their lives in the line of duty. These martyrs
may often leave behind families, especially children. Children of
Fallen Patriots Day aims to honor the pain and sacrifice of
children who have lost a parent to martyrdom. The objective is to
appreciate the young individuals who live tragically altered lives
due to a parent passing away in the line of duty. Children of
Fallen Patriots Day was established by the Children of Fallen
Patriots Foundation in 2014, an organization that provides
financial education and educational counseling to Gold Star
scholars who have a martyred parent. May 13 was chosen as Children
of Fallen Patriots Day because it was the day the Arlington
National Cemetery was established in 1864.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Top Gun
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Today,May 13, 2026May 13: Top Gun Day: -- A special day to
celebrate, honor, remember, and enjoy the iconic movie. Top Gun
was released in the year 1986 and starred Tom Cruise as naval
aviator Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. This movie broke all
the previous records and became the highest-grossing movie of the
time making a whopping 356M USD worldwide. So, how do we celebrate
this Top Gun Day, and why is the internet going gaga over it? Give
props to The United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor
Program, more popularly known as Top Gun (stylized as TOPGUN), the
American military program that inspired the film, a school which
teaches fighter and strike tactics and techniques to selected
naval aviators and naval flight officers, who return to their
operating units as surrogate instructors. Top Gun was a phenomenon
back when it was released in 1986. It created a sensation at the
time that even the U.S. military was talking about it! Although
the movie was released on May 16, May 13 was picked as the
official Top Gun Day. According to the day's creators, they
selected May 13 as the day because the original movie release
date, May 16, coincided with iron Eagle Day and also because they
messed up the graphics of the first poster - these mentioned May
13 in error. An interesting fact about Top Gun is that it was
based on a real school called U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School or
TOPGUN. Formerly, it was based at Miramar Naval Air Station in San
Diego. TOPGUN was founded in the late 1960s as a way to compensate
for losing the air war in the Vietnam War. Later TOPGUN was
relocated to Fallon, Nevada in 1996, and was renamed the United
States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor. During the time of
the Top Gun movie release, the navy used it as a recruiting tool.
The Navy set up booths outside theaters and tried to recruit
moviegoers to join the Navy. Surprisingly, it worked so well that,
90% of the Navy applicants said that they had seen the movie. Ever
since the movie came out, the Top Gun crew has been discussing a
sequel, and the exciting production for 'Top Gun: Maverick'
started in 2019 and was all set to release in 2021. But due to
unforeseen circumstances, the movie was then postponed to 2022.
So, are you ready to get the Top Gun experience all again?
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Today,May 13, 2026May 13, 1998: #DOTD: Frank Ragano,
self-styled "mob lawyer" from Florida who made his name
representing organized crime figures such as Santo Trafficante,
Jr. and Carlos Marcello, and also served as lawyer for Teamsters
leader Jimmy Hoffa (b. January 25, 1923) #dies in Tampa, Florida
in his sleep at the age of 75. He is buried at Bay Pines National
Cemetery in Bay Pines, Florida. Frank Ragano was born in Ybor
City, Tampa, Florida to Sicilian parents. Ragano attended Stetson
Law School and clerked for the Florida Supreme Court before
admission to the Florida Bar in 1952 and beginning his trial
practice in Tampa, Florida. In 1954 he was recruited by another
attorney to represent several defendants arrested in Tampa for
involvement in Santo Trafficante, Jr.'s illegal bolita operations
(a type of lottery utilizing bolita balls, balls similar to those
used in contemporary legal lotteries, which was popular in the
latter 19th and early 20th centuries in Cuba and among Florida's
working class Hispanic, Italian, and black population). He
immediately befriended Trafficante, who thereafter admitted him
into the inner circles of Florida's organized crime scene. In his
1994 autobiography Mob Lawyer, Ragano recounted his career in
defending members of organized crime, and made the controversial
allegation that Florida mob boss Santo Trafficante, Jr. confessed
to him shortly before he died in 1987 that he and Carlos Marcello
had arranged for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in
1963. During one of Ragano's frequent visits to Trafficante's
Havana nightclubs. Trafficante told Ragano that in 1957 he and
others had set up then Senator John F. Kennedy in a Havana hotel
room with several prostitutes, and that Trafficante rued the day
he had failed to preserve the moment in secret surveillance tapes
that could have been used for bribery purposes. In 1959, after
Fidel Castro overthrew the Fulgencio Batista regime in Cuba,
Trafficante's casinos were closed down and he was imprisoned by
the new government. Ragano worked on various attempts to free
Trafficante, who was released in early 1960 and returned to the
United States. By 1960 Ragano was already known as a shrewd,
up-and-coming criminal defense attorney, who defended a wide range
of clients. Thanks to a recommendation from Santo Trafficante,
Ragano was hired by Jimmy Hoffa to represent him on union
corruption charges, thus beginning a long association with the
infamous labor leader. He used his position with Hoffa to help
place loans from the Teamsters' pension funds in return for
"finder's fees." Liberace, the entertainer, was one such
client for whom he attempted to get a Teamsters' loan. Ragano
witnessed kickbacks of millions of dollars to Hoffa from the
Teamsters' pension fund. In 1963, again on Trafficante's
recommendation, Ragano began serving as attorney for Carlos
Marcello, the head of the New Orleans crime family. In his book,
Ragano claimed that Hoffa, who was being hounded by United States
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on corruption and jury
tampering charges, asked him to convey a message to Trafficante
and Marcello that an assassination of President Kennedy should be
arranged. When Kennedy was shot and killed later that year, Ragano
wrote that Hoffa always assumed that Trafficante and Marcello had
actually carried out such a plan. Trafficante did "celebrate"
with Ragano upon hearing word of Kennedy's assassination, but made
no admission to Ragano at that time that he was in any way
involved. He did tell Ragano later that the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) had once asked him for help in assassinating Castro
in Cuba. In 1975, Ragano was asked by Trafficante to convey an
urgent message to Hoffa to "be very careful and not take any
chances." Within days, Hoffa disappeared under mysterious
circumstances, never to be found.
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Today,May 13, 2026May 13, 2024: #DOTD: #RIP: Cyril Wecht,
American forensic pathologist (b. March 20, 1931) #dies at his
home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the age of 93. He is buried at
Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh. Cyril Wecht was born Cyril
Harrison Wecht to Jewish immigrant parents in a tiny mining
village in Dunkard Township, Pennsylvania, called Bobtown; his
father, Nathan Wecht, was a Lithuanian-born storekeeper; his
Ukrainian-born mother, Fannie Rubenstein, was a homemaker and
helped out in the store. Cyril Wecht has been the president of
both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American
College of Legal Medicine, and headed the board of trustees of the
American Board of Legal Medicine. He served as County Commissioner
and Allegheny County Coroner and Medical Examiner serving the
Pittsburgh metropolitan area. He is perhaps best known for his
criticism of the Warren Commission's findings concerning the
assassination of John F. Kennedy and for the commissions Single
Bullet Theory. In 1965 Wecht presented a paper critiquing the
Warren Commission to the meeting of the American Academy of
Forensic Sciences. In 1972 Wecht was the first civilian ever given
permission to examine the Kennedy assassination evidence. It was
Wecht who first discovered that Kennedy's brain, and all related
data in the killing, had gone missing. In 1978, he testified
before the House Select Committee on Assassinations as the lone
dissenter on a nine-member forensic pathology panel re-examining
the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which had concurred with the
Warren Commission conclusions and single bullet theory. Out of the
four official examinations into the Kennedy Assassination, Wecht
is the only forensic pathologist who has disagreed with the
conclusion that both the single bullet theory and Kennedy's head
wounds are mutually consistent. He was a consultant to Oliver
Stone for the film JFK.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Crime
Inc.: The True Story Of The Mafia TV Series DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today,May 13, 2026May 13, 1977: #DOTD: #RIP: Mickey
Spillane, Irish-American mobster who controlled Hell's Kitchen in
New York in the 1960s and 1970s, known as the "last of the
gentleman gangsters" (b. July 13, 1934) #dies at the age of
43 when he is killed outside his apartment in Queens. Michael J.
Spillane was a marked contrast to the violent Westies mob members
who succeeded him in Hell's Kitchen. Spillane was born on July 13,
1933 to Michael Anthony Spillane and Margaret Curran. At 16 or 17,
he attempted to rob a movie theater, but was shot by a police
officer. He spent four years in prison.After his release from
prison, Spillane started as a numbers runner for various organized
crime figures in Hell's Kitchen. In 1960, Mickey took over the
rackets left to him by his predecessor Hughie Mulligan. He married
Maureen McManus, the daughter of the powerful Hell's Kitchen
Democratic district leader Eugene McManus. Though Italian mobsters
dominated organized crime in the city, the Italian mob stayed out
of Hell's Kitchen while Spillane was the boss. Often, Spillane
would kidnap members of the Italian Mafia and hold them for ransom
to raise money for his operations. Although he ran the rackets
such as gambling and loansharking, he never allowed the sale of
drugs. It was Spillane's refusal to allow the Italian mobsters to
participate in the rackets in Hell's Kitchen and along the west
side of Manhattan that led to his downfall. The Jacob K. Javits
Convention Center was being built on Spillane's westside. The
amount of money the new convention center was going to generate
was enormous. Coupled with the amount Spillane was already
generating from Madison Square Garden, the Hudson River waterfront
and the local unions and Spillane would have been powerful enough
to challenge the Italians for control of the city. So began the
infamous Irish-Italian Mob War of 1970s. In the 1970s, under
Spillane, the Irish mob became organized and expanded their
control out of Hell's Kitchen to most of the west side of
Manhattan. The Italian Mafia, seeing this as a threat, demanded
involvement in the soon-to-be-built Jacob K. Javits Convention
Center. The convention center was being constructed in the Chelsea
neighborhood of NYC just south of Hell's Kitchen. Spillane refused
to allow any involvement by the Italians. The Italian gangsters
greatly outnumbered the members of the Irish mob, but Spillane was
successful in keeping control of the convention center. The
Italians, frustrated and embarrassed by their defeat to Spillane
and the Irish gangsters, responded by hiring a rogue
Irish-American hitman named Joseph "Mad Dog" Sullivan to
assassinate Tom Devaney, Eddie "the Butcher" Cummiskey,
and Tom "the Greek" Kapatos, three of Spillane's chief
lieutenants. By the mid-1970s, Spillane had moved his family out
of Hell's Kitchen to Woodside, Queens, because of threats of
violence against his children. In 1966, a young upstart named
Jimmy Coonan began slowly muscling in on Spillane's territory.
Ultimately, Coonan was sent to prison for ten years in 1967 for
homicide. When he was released from prison, Coonan sought to align
himself with the Gambino crime family through an up-and-coming
mobster from Brooklyn, named Roy DeMeo. This would mark the
beginning of the end for the Irish mob, as after Spillane's death,
Coonan would eventually work for the Gambinos. It has long been
rumored that DeMeo murdered Spillane as a favor to Coonan, who
subsequently took over as the boss of the Hell's Kitchen Irish
Mob. Spillane is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York.
Spillane had three children. Michael (Mickey), Robert and Denise.
Robert, an actor, fell six stories to his death on July 10, 2010,
in Manhattan, New York, when he leaned against his apartment
window screen. The screen gave way while Robert may have been
calling his brother. The Spillane family own the bar in Hell's
Kitchen called "Mickey Spillane's Hells Kitchen" on 49th
Street and 9th Avenue.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
America: The Second Century Documentary Series DVD, Download, USB
Today,May 13, 2026May 13, 1884: #DOTD: #RIP: Cyrus
McCormick, American journalist, inventor and businessman, founder
of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and co-founder of The
International Harvester Company (b. February 15, 1809) #dies at
his Chicago home at the age of 75. During the last four years of
his life, McCormick became an invalid, after a stroke paralyzed
his legs; he was unable to walk during his final two years. He is
buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois. He was born
Cyrus Hall McCormick in Rockbridge County, Virginia in the Blue
Ridge Mountains of the Shenandoah Valley, though he and many
members of the McCormick family became prominent residents of
Chicago. McCormick has been simplistically credited as the single
inventor of the horse-drawn mechanical reaper, a machine that
freed farmers from hard labor and contributed to the development
and cultivation of vast areas of the American Great Plains.. He
was, however, one of several designing engineers who produced
successful models in the 1830s. His efforts built on more than two
decades of work by his father Robert McCormick Jr., as well as the
aid of Jo Anderson, a person enslaved by his family. He also
successfully developed a modern company, with manufacturing,
marketing, and a sales force to market his products.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rock &
Roll An Unruly History 10 Part TV Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today,May 13, 2026May 13, 2012: #DOTD: #RIP: Donald "Duck"
Dunn, American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer,
and songwriter (b. November 24, 1941) #dies in his sleep in the
morning at age 70 after finishing his fifth double show at the
Blue Note nightclub in Tokyo with Cropper the night before. He had
been in Japan as part of an ongoing tour with Cropper and Eddie
Floyd. He is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis,
Tennessee. He was born Donald Dunn in Memphis, Tennessee. His
father nicknamed him "Duck" while watching Disney
cartoons with him one day. Dunn grew up in Memphis, playing sports
and riding his bike with another future professional and fellow
musician partner, Steve Cropper. He was notable for his 1960s
recordings with Booker T. and the M.G.'s and as a session bassist
for Stax Records. At Stax, Dunn played on thousands of records,
including hits by Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Rufus Thomas, Carla
Thomas, William Bell, Eddie Floyd, Johnnie Taylor, Albert King,
Elvis Presley and many others. In 1992, he was inducted in the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Booker T. and the
M.G.'s. He is ranked number 40 on Bass Player magazine's list of
"The 100 Greatest Bass Players of All Time".
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Wings
(1927) Clara Bow Buddy Rogers Gary Cooper DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today,May 13, 2026May 13, 1961: #DOTD: #RIP: Gary Cooper,
American film actor known for his natural, authentic, and
understated acting style and screen performances (b. May 7, 1901)
#dies of cancer in Los Angeles, California, aged 60. He is buried
at Sacred Hearts Cemetery in Southampton, New York. Gary Cooper
was born Frank James Cooper in Helena, Montana. He had a career
that spanned thirty-six years, from 1925 to 1961, and included
leading roles in eighty-four feature films. He was a major movie
star from the end of the silent film era through to the end of the
golden age of Classical Hollywood. His screen persona appealed
strongly to both men and women, and his range of performances
included roles in most major film genres. Cooper's ability to
project his own personality onto the characters he played
contributed to his natural and authentic appearance on screen.
Throughout his career, he sustained a screen persona that
represented the ideal American hero. Cooper began his career as a
film extra and stunt rider, but soon landed acting roles. He
establishing himself in his early silent films as a hero in
Westerns and in Wings, the first film to win an Academy Award for
Best Picture. Cooper became a movie star in 1929 with his first
sound picture, The Virginian. In the early 1930s, he expanded his
heroic image to include more cautious characters in adventure
films and dramas such as A Farewell to Arms (1932) and The Lives
of a Bengal Lancer (1935). During the height of his career, Cooper
portrayed a new type of hero-a champion of the common man-in films
such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Meet John Doe (1941),
Sergeant York (1941), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), and For
Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). In the postwar years, he portrayed
more mature characters at odds with the world in films such as The
Fountainhead (1949) and High Noon (1952). In his final films,
Cooper played non-violent characters searching for redemption in
films such as Friendly Persuasion (1956) and Man of the West
(1958). In 1933, he married New York debutante Veronica Balfe; the
couple had one daughter. The marriage was interrupted by a
three-year separation that was precipitated by Cooper's love
affair with Patricia Neal. Cooper received the Academy Award for
Best Actor for his roles in Sergeant York and High Noon. He also
received an Academy Honorary Award for his career achievements in
1961. He was one of the top ten film personalities for
twenty-three consecutive years and was one of the top money-making
stars for eighteen years. The American Film Institute (AFI) ranked
Cooper eleventh on its list of the twenty five greatest male stars
of classic Hollywood cinema.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: UFOs:
The First Encounters Ancient Aliens MP4 Video Download DVD
Today,May 13, 2026May 13, 2019: #DOTD: #RIP: Stanton
Friedman, nuclear physicist, pioneering UFO investigator, the
ufologist who was the original civilian investigator of the
Roswell Incident, the 1947 recovery of a downed alien spacecraft
(b. July 29, 1934) #dies of a heart attack at the Toronto Pearson
Airport in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, aged 84. He was born Stanton
Terry Friedman in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Friedman was raised in
nearby Linden, New Jersey and graduated from Linden High School in
1951; he attended Rutgers University and then transferred to the
University of Chicago, earning Bachelor Of Science and Master Of
Science degrees from the University of Chicago. He was then
employed for 14 years in a variety of position at companies such
as TRW, GE, Aerojet General and McDonnell Douglas. His classified
work included projects such as nuclear aircraft, fission and
fusion powered rockets and compact nuclear powerplants. In 1958,
he became interested in UFOs, and lectured on them from 1967 to
the present. He has given lectures at 600 colleges and 100
professional groups in 50 US state, 10 Canadian provinces and 18
other countries. He also published over 90 papers on UFOs and
appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs, including Larry
King and many others. He has appeared in dozens of documentaries
on the UFO subject. He was the original civilian investigator of
the Roswell Incident and co-authored Crash at Corona, widely
considered the definitive study of the incident. He also brought
to light the controversial Majestic 12 group and published Top
Secret?MAJIC about this organization which, according to his
research, was secretly convened to study UFOs and comprised of top
scientists of the period such as Donald H. Menzel and James
Forrestal, among others. He is co-author with Kathleen Marden of
Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience. In 2007, the
city of Fredricton, New Brunswick, declared August 27 Stanton
Friedman Day. He has provided written testimony to the US Congress
on UFOs, and has appeared twice at the United Nations.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Doris
Day: A Sentimental Journey DVD, MP4 Download, USB Flash Drive
Today,May 13, 2026May 13, 2019: #DOTD: #RIP: Doris Day,
American actress, singer, animal welfare activist and beauty (b.
April 3, 1922) #dies at her home in Carmel Valley, California, at
the age of 97, after having contracted pneumonia. Her death was
announced by her charity, the Doris Day Animal Foundation. Per
Day's requests, the Foundation announced that there would be no
funeral services, grave marker, or other public memorials. Born
Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff in Cincinnati, Ohio, she began her
career as a big band singer in 1939, and her popularity increased
with her first hit recording "Sentimental Journey"
(1945). After leaving Les Brown and His Band of Renown to embark
on a solo career, she recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to
1967, which made her one of the most popular and acclaimed singers
of the 20th century. Day's film career began with the 1948 film
Romance on the High Seas, and its success sparked her twenty-year
career as a motion picture actress. She starred in a series of
successful films, including musicals, comedies, and dramas. She
played the title role in Calamity Jane (1953), and starred in
Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James
Stewart. Her most successful films were the "pioneering"
bedroom comedies she made co-starring Rock Hudson and James
Garner, such as Pillow Talk (1959) and Move Over, Darling (1963),
respectively. She also co-starred in films with such leading men
as Clark Gable, Cary Grant, David Niven, and Rod Taylor. After her
final film in 1968, she went on to star in the CBS sitcom The
Doris Day Show (1968-73). She was usually one of the top ten
singers between 1951 and 1966. As an actress, she became the
biggest female film star in the early 1960s, and ranked sixth
among the box office performers by 2012. In 2011, she released her
29th studio album, My Heart, which became a UK Top 10 album
featuring new material. Among her awards, Day has received the
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the
Society of Singers. In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy
Award for Best Actress, and in 1989 was given the Cecil B. DeMille
Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 2004, she
was awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom by President George
W. Bush followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics
Association's Career Achievement Award.
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