Holidays May 13, 2024: name days, traditions

1501 – Amerigo Vespucci travels to the West, where he learns that Columbus has discovered a new continent.

1830 – Ecuador secedes from Gran Colombia and declares itself an independent republic.

1865 – the third university in Ukraine (Mechnikov National University) was opened in Odessa.

1918 – postage stamps with inverted images of airplanes were printed in the United States, which became a collector’s item.

1927 – Dynamo Kiev football club was founded.

1950 – the first race of the first Formula 1 championship took place in Silverstone, England.

1963 – Kuwait becomes the 111th state admitted to the UN.

1989 – About two thousand students stage a hunger strike in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, demanding democratic reforms in China.

1991 – The 1st Congress of Poles living in Ukraine took place in Kyiv.

1991 – Winnie Mandela, wife of South African President Nelson Mandela, is accused of kidnapping and torture.

1992 – American astronauts spent 8 hours 29 minutes in space (a world record), the first time three cosmonauts went into space at the same time.

2014 – Pro-Russian militants, during the battle for Slavyansk, set up an ambush around the village of Mayachok as a result of a militant attack on a convoy of the 95th Separate Airmobile Brigade, seven Ukrainian paratrooper was killed.

1950 – Stevie Wonder, American singer.

1972 – Nazar Strigun, Ukrainian artist.

1975 – Alexander Matviychuk, Ukrainian hockey player.

1979 – Vyacheslav Shevchuk , Ukrainian football player.

1986 – Robert Pattinson, English actor, model and musician.