Back In The Day ------------- May 13 1568 Mary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to North England. 1607 English colonists land near the James River in Virginia. 1648 Margaret Jones of Plymouth is found guilty of witchcraft and is sentenced to be hanged. 1779 The War of Bavarian Succession ends. 1846 The United States declares war on Mexico after fighting has already begun. 1861 Britain declares its neutrality in the American Civil War. 1864 The Battle of Resaca commences as Union General Sherman fights towards Atlanta. 1888 Slavery is abolished in Brazil. 1912 The Royal Flying Corps is established in England. 1913 Igor Sikorsky flies the first four-engine aircraft. 1938 Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleanss jazz classic, When the Saints Go Marching In, on Decca Records. 1940 Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. 1944 Allied forces in Italy break through the German Gustav Line into the Liri Valley. 1958 French troops take control of Algiers. 1968 Peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam begin in Paris. 1973 Tennis male chauvinist Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Smith Court, 6-2, 6-1 in front of a world-wide television audience. He would lose to Billie Jean King later that year. 1981 Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peters Square, Rome. ------------- The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.
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