TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS SATURDAY, MAY 13, the 133rd day of 2017. There are 232 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:

On this date in 1917, three shepherd children, Lucia de Jesus dos Santos and two of her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary near Fatima, Portugal; it was the first of six such apparitions that the children claimed to have witnessed.

In 1607, English colonists arrived by ship at the site of what became the Jamestown settlement in Virginia. The colonists went ashore the next day.

In 1940, in his first speech as British prime minister, Winston Churchill told Parliament, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

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 1973, in tennis’ first so-called “Battle of the Sexes,” Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Court 6-2, 6-1 in Ramona, Calif. Billie Jean King soundly defeated Riggs at the Houston Astrodome in September.

In 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Buck Taylor is 79. Actor Harvey Keitel is 78. Author Charles Baxter is 70. Singer Stevie Wonder is 67. Actress Leslie Winston is 61. Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman is 56. Rock musician John Richardson (The Gin Blossoms) and actor Tom Verica are 53. Singer Darius Rucker (Hootie and the Blowfish) is 51. Actress Samantha Morton is 40. Former NBA player Mike Bibby and former MLB player Barry Zito are 39. Rock musician Mickey Madden (Maroon 5) is 38.