May 13th, 2008

Born on May 13th, 2008

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on May 13th, 2008?

May 13th, 2008

Nine bombs placed by the Indian Mujahideen, then an unknown terrorist group, exploded in a 15-minute period in Jaipur, India, killing 80 people and injuring more than 200 others.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Mujahideen

What else happened on May 13th?

May 13th, 2005

Uzbek Interior Ministry and State Security Service troops fired at protesters in Andijan, killing between 187 and 1,500 people.

May 13th, 2000

An explosion at a fireworks factory in Enschede, Netherlands, resulted in 23 deaths and approximately €450 million in damage.

May 13th, 1992

Li Hongzhi introduced the Falun Gong movement at a public lecture in Changchun, China.

May 13th, 1985

Eleven people, including five children, were killed after the Philadelphia Police Department dropped bombs from a helicopter during a raid on a house occupied by the Black liberation group MOVE.

May 13th, 1972

The Troubles: A car bomb planted by Ulster loyalists exploded outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, beginning two days of gun battles between the British Army, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and the Ulster Volunteer Force.

May 13th, 1969

Sino-Malay race riots began in Kuala Lumpur, leaving at least 190 people dead, with the government declaring a state of emergency and suspending the Parliament of Malaysia until 1971.

May 13th, 1958

The Australian adventurer Ben Carlin (pictured) became the only person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 80,000 kilometres (50,000 miles) by land and sea.

May 13th, 1913

The Russian inventor Igor Sikorsky flew the self-designed Russky Vityaz, the world's first four-engine fixed-wing aircraft.

May 13th, 1909

The inaugural edition of the Giro d'Italia, a long-distance multiple-stage bicycle race, began in Milan; the Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the eventual winner.

May 13th, 1861

The Australian astronomer John Tebbutt discovered the Great Comet of 1861, through whose tail the Earth passed later that year.

May 13th, 1373

The English mystic Julian of Norwich recovered from a severe illness during which she experienced a series of intense visions of Christ, which she later described in the first known English-language book written by a woman.

May 13th, 2014

The worst mining disaster in Turkish history took place when an explosion caused an underground mine fire at a coal mine in Soma, Manisa, leaving 301 people dead.

May 13th, 2012

Mexican authorities discovered 49 dismembered bodies in Cadereyta Jiménez.

May 13th, 2011

Two bomb explosions in Charsadda District, Pakistan, killed 98 people and wounded 140 others.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 13th

Same year
Born in 2008

18

Emma Kok

Dutch singer

*March 12th, 2008, Maastricht

18

Helena Zengel

German actress

*June 10th, 2008, Berlin

18

Iain Armitage

American child actor

*July 15th, 2008, Georgia

17

Jackson Robert Scott

American child actor

*September 18th, 2008, Phoenix

18

Gavin Warren

American actor

*April 17th, 2008, Houston

17

Dastan Satpaev

Kazakh footballer

*August 12th, 2008, Almaty

18

Daria Sadkova

Russian figure skater

*June 26th, 2008, Yoshkar-Ola

18

Helen Kevric

German artistic gymnast

*March 21st, 2008, Stuttgart

17

Lexy Kolker

American actress (born 2009)

*November 30th, 2008, California

18

Rayssa Leal

Brazilian skateboarder

*January 4th, 2008, Imperatriz

18

Meilee Condron

American actress

*March 17th, 2008, Connecticut

18

Leander Menzel

*January 31st, 2008, Wiesbaden

18

Emerson Jones

Australian tennis player

*July 7th, 2008, Gold Coast

18

Gustav De Waele

Belgian actor and model

*March 28th, 2008, Brussels metropolitan area

18

Alejandro Gomes

British-Venezuelan footballer

*March 11th, 2008, Caracas

17

Sophia Baram

American pair skater

*November 24th, 2008, Beverly Hills

18

Veronika Zhilina

Russian figure skater

*May 15th, 2008, Arkhangelsk

17

GUSTAVOEGATOTV

Brazilian record producer (2008-)

*December 11th, 2008, Iguatu

18

Harshaali Malhotra

Indian child actress

*June 3rd, 2008, Mumbai

18

Sienna Belle

Atriz e cantora canadense

*January 26th, 2008, Cambridge

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Leap year

Yes: 2008 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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