On May 13, 2012, the music world mourned the passing of Donald “Duck” Dunn, the iconic bassist whose deep grooves and soulful rhythms helped define the Memphis sound at Stax Records during the 1960s.

On May 24, 2002, in a landmark moment for international security, U.

In 1994, a significant moment in American judicial history unfolded as President Bill Clinton nominated federal appeals Judge Stephen G.

In a landmark event in sports history, the "Battle of the Sexes" in tennis was ignited on May 13, 1973, as Bobby Riggs, a former world number one and self-proclaimed male chauvinist, faced off against Margaret Court, a top female player and winner of 24 Grand Slam titles.

On May 13, 1973, during the early years of the women’s liberation movement, tennis stars Bobby Riggs and Margaret Court face off in a $10,000 winner-take-all challenge match.

During a goodwill trip through Latin America, Vice President Richard Nixon’s car is attacked by an angry crowd and nearly overturned while traveling through Caracas, Venezuela.

On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill delivered a rousing and solemn address to the British Parliament following his appointment as Prime Minister amidst the escalating turmoil of World War II.

On May 13, 1940, as Winston Churchill takes the helm as Great Britain’s new prime minister, he assures Parliament that his new policy will consist of nothing less than “to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

On May 13, 1920, the Socialist Party nominates Eugene V.

During the second week of May 1919, the recently arrived German delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference, convened in Paris after the end of the First World War, pore over their copies of the Treaty of Versailles, drawn up in the months preceding by representatives of their victorious enemies.