Today in History: 05-13-14

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Today is Tuesday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2014. There are 232 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On May 13, 1914, heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis was born in Lafayette, Alabama.
On this date:
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 already existed with Mexico.
In 1917, three shepherd children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.
In 1940, Britain’s new prime minister, Winston Churchill, told Parliament: "I have nothing to offer
but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act.
In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, were spat upon and their limousine battered by
rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
In 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant
Mehmet Ali Agca.
Ten years ago: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited the Abu Ghraib prison camp in Iraq, where he
insisted the Pentagon did not try to cover up abuses there.
One year ago: President Barack Obama denounced as "outrageous" the targeting of conservative
political groups by the IRS and angrily denied any administration cover-up after the deadly attacks in
Benghazi, Libya, in September 2012.

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