On This Day
May 13
1607 -Three ships of English soldiers became the first permanent settlers in Jamestown, America.
1568 - Mary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to North England.
1868 - Aboriginal cricketers arrived in England some 10 years before the white Australian team.
1940 - Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'
1981 - Crowds in St Peter's Square in Rome were stunned by the close-range shooting of the Pope by Mehmet Ali Hagca, an escaped Turkish fugitive murderer.
1995 - A British mother of two Alison Hargreaves, 33, became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
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