On This Day - May 13

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Events

1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.

1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts (First Fleet) to establish a penal colony in Australia.

1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.

2007 – Republic Protests in Turkey.

Births

1024 – Hugh of Cluny, French saint

1254 – Maria of Brabant, queen of France

1898 – Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War

1939 – Harvey Keitel, American actor

Deaths

1312 – Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine

1573 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord

1988 – Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter

Holdiays/Festivals/Observances/International Days/Religous Events

Commemoration of Julian of Norwich (Roman Catholic).

Roman Empire – Feast of the Lemures

Abbotsbury Garland Day, Dorset, England