Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 13

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 * 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.
 * 1861 – The Australian astronomer John Tebbutt discovered the Great Comet of 1861, through whose tail the Earth passed later that year.
 * 1913 – The Russian inventor Igor Sikorsky flew the self-designed Russky Vityaz, the world's first four-engine fixed-wing aircraft.
 * 1958 – The Australian adventurer Ben Carlin 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 1985 – Eleven members of the American Black liberation group MOVE were killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a bomb on their house during a raid.
 * 1992 – Li Hongzhi introduced the Falun Gong movement at a public lecture in Changchun, China.
 * 2005 – Uzbek Interior Ministry and State Security Service troops fired at protesters in Andijan, killing between 187 and 1,500 people.
 * Born/died: | Muhammad VII of Granada |d|1408| Ole Worm |b|1588| Cornelis Schut |b|1597| John Nash |d|1835| Arthur Sullivan |b|1842| Kate Marsden |b|1859| Lorna Hodgkinson |b|1887| Inge Lehmann |b|1888| Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed |b|1905| Antonia Ferrín Moreiras |b|1914| Ralph Milne |b|1961| H. Trendley Dean |d|1962 Jagdish Mali |d|2013| David Malet Armstrong |d|2014