May 13 - Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!

Grandmothers, too.

This Day In History

1373

Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love.

1648

Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.

1780

The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.

1787

Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.

1861

The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.

1880

In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.

1912

The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom.

1917

Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.

1958

The trade mark Velcro is registered.

1995

33-year-old British mother Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.

Famous Birthdays

1024

Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)

1792

Blessed Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)

1857

Ronald Ross, English physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1932)

1907

Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)

1909

Ken Darby, American composer, lyricist and conductor (d. 1992)

1914

Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)

1937

Roger Zelazny, American fantasy and science fiction author (d. 1995)

1939

Harvey Keitel, American actor

1947

Stephen R. Donaldson, American fantasy, science fiction and mystery author

1950

Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician