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This day in history
On this date in 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square. (Reuters)

Today is Sunday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2018. There are 232 days left in the year. This is Mother’s Day.

►Birthdays: Actor Buck Taylor is 80. Author Charles Baxter is 71. Actress Zoe Wanamaker is 70. Actor Franklyn Ajaye is 69. Singer Stevie Wonder is 68. Ohio Governor John Kasich is 66. Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman is 57. ‘‘Late Show’’ host Stephen Colbert is 54. Rock musician John Richardson (The Gin Blossoms) is 54. Actor Tom Verica is 54. Singer Darius Rucker (Hootie and the Blowfish) is 52. Actress Susan Floyd is 50. Rock musician Mickey Madden (Maroon 5) is 39. Actor Iwan Rheon is 33. Actress-writer-director Lena Dunham is 32. Actor Robert Pattinson is 32. Actress Candice Accola King is 31. Actor Hunter Parrish is 31. Folk-rock musician Wylie Gelber (Dawes) is 30. Actress Debby Ryan is 25.

In 1607, English colonists arrived by ship at the site of what became the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.

In 1846, the United States declared that a state of war existed with Mexico.

In 1917, three shepherd children reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary near Fatima, Portugal; it was the first of six such apparitions that the children said they witnessed.

In 1918, the first US airmail stamp, costing 24 cents and featuring a picture of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, was publicly issued. (On some of the stamps, the ‘‘Jenny’’ was printed upside-down, making them collector’s items.)

In 1935, T.E. Lawrence (also known as Lawrence of Arabia) was critically injured in a motorcycle accident in Dorset, England; he died six days later.

In 1940, in his first speech as British prime minister, Winston Churchill told Parliament, ‘‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.’’

In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, were spat upon and their limousine battered by rocks thrown by anti-US demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.

In 1968, a one-day general strike took place in France in support of student protesters.

In 1973, in tennis’ first so-called ‘‘Battle of the Sexes,’’ Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Court 6-2, 6-1 in Ramona, Calif. (Billie Jean King soundly defeated Riggs at the Houston Astrodome in September.)

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

In 1994, President Bill Clinton nominated federal appeals Judge Stephen G. Breyer to the US Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Harry A. Blackmun.

In 2008, 80 people were killed in coordinated bomb attacks on crowded markets and streets outside Hindu temples in Jaipur, India.

In 2013, President Obama tried to swat down a pair of brewing controversies, denouncing as ‘‘outrageous’’ the targeting of conservative political groups by the IRS but angrily denying any administration cover-up after the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in September 2012.