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This day in history

Today is Friday, May 13, the 134th day of 2016. There are 232 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Harvey Keitel is 77. Singer Stevie Wonder is 66. Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman is 55. ‘‘Late Show’’ host Stephen Colbert is 52. Actress-writer-director Lena Dunham is 30. Actor Robert Pattinson is 30.

In 1607, English colonists arrived by ship at the site of what became the Jamestown settlement in Virginia (the colonists went ashore the next day).

In 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.

In 1985, a confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped a bomb onto the group’s row house; 11 people died in the resulting fire that destroyed 61 homes.

In 1996, the Supreme Court, in 44 Liquormart v. Rhode ­Island, unanimously struck down Rhode Island’s ban on ads that listed or referred to liquor prices, saying the law violated free-speech rights.

In 2006, former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton helped Tulane University in New Orleans celebrate its ‘‘miracle’’ commencement, nine months after Hurricane Katrina put two-thirds of the campus under water and scattered students to more than 600 schools nationwide.

In 2015, the House voted 338-88 to end the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records and replace it with a system to search the data held by telephone companies on a case-by-case basis.