TODAY IN HISTORY

On May 13, 1914, heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis was born.

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 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square.

In 1985, a confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped a bomb onto the group’s row house, igniting a fire

that killed 11 people and destroyed 61 homes.

In 2016, the Obama administration issued a directive requiring public schools to permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

In 2019, Doris Day died at her California home at the age of 97.