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TODAY - May 13, 2026

Thought of the Day

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Today's Birthday

Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Arthur Seymour Sullivan Composer, English(1842)

An English composer who wrote 16 operettas with librettist W.S. Gilbert.

 
Georges Braque
Georges Braque Painter, French(1882)

A French painter, printmaker and sculptor..

 
Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce Singer, Scottish(1943)

A Scottish musician, singer and songwriter best known as the member of group Cream.

 
Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson Actor, English(1986)

An English actor, musician and producer who is widely known for playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter.

 
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson Inventor, American(1743)

An American, inventor, pioneer in scientific farming, a philosopher, educator, politician, scientist, architect, musician, and writer, who served as the President of United States and regarded as one of the most Genius personalities in U.S history.

This day in History

1598

The Edict of Nantes is proclaimed by Henry IV of France. It gives the Huguenots (French Protestants) partial religious freedom and ends a series of religious wars between Catholics and Protestants.

1796

The first elephant brought to the United States arrives from Bengal.

1943

President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1964

Sidney Poitier becomes the first black actor to win an Academy Award, for his performance in "Lilies of the Field."

1970

An oxygen tank explodes aboard the U.S. lunar landing mission Apollo 13 as it nears the moon, forcing the astronauts to return to Earth.

1997

Golfer Tiger Woods, 21, becomes the youngest person to win the Masters and the first African-American and Asian-American champion.

Man who made the difference

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Thomas Jefferson

An American, inventor, pioneer in scientific farming, a philosopher, educator, politician, scientist, architect, musician, and writer, who served as the President of United States and regarded as one of the most Genius personalities in U.S history was born on 13 may 1743 in Virginia, United States. Peter Jefferson, his father was a prosperous Virginia planter and his mother Jane Randolph Jefferson, was from a distinguished Randolph family of Virginia He was the 3rd President of U.S. He strengthened the executive government as president. His Presidential time is called the Jeffersonian democracy, due to his great sense of ruling. During his lifetime he sought to develop a government that would best assure the freedom and well-being of the individual.

Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal