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This article covers breaking news and events in May 2013.
Daily events
Wednesday 1st May 2013
- Hamburg / Germany : The 34th Evangelical Church Congress begins. Its motto is: "As much as you need".
- Vienna / Austria : When Amadeus Awards will Parov Stelar award for best album.
Thursday 2nd May 2013
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- al-Bayda / Syria : More than 50 people are killed in a massacre as part of the civil war .
- Al-Sireaf / Sudan : When a gold mine collapses, more than 60 miners die.
- Caracas / Venezuela : The opposition files a complaint with the Supreme Court against the result of the presidential election .
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The European Central Bank is lowering the key interest rate for the euro to the record low of 0.5%.
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The five-euro notes are the first copies of the second series of euro banknotes to be put into circulation.
- Munich / Germany : The President of the Bavarian State Parliament , Barbara Stamm , publishes the names of MPs who have employed their children or spouses as employees since 2000 .
- Vatican City : Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. moves from the summer residence Castel Gandolfo to the former Mater Ecclesiae monastery .
Friday 3rd May 2013
- Annapolis / United States : Maryland becomes the 18th state to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment.
- Darmstadt / Germany : The Austrian author Josef Haslinger is appointed as the new president of the writers' association PEN-Zentrum Deutschland .
- Helsinki / Finland : The ice hockey world championship in Helsinki and Stockholm , Sweden , begins with a 6-2 win for Slovakia against France .
- Munich / Germany : The CSU appoints Horst Seehofer as the top candidate for the upcoming state election .
- Beijing / China : Ministry of Public Security confiscates 20,000 tons of rat and fox meat that had been sold as lamb in a food scandal ; 904 people are arrested.
Saturday 4th May 2013
- Mannheim / Germany : Wladimir Klitschko defends his three titles as world heavyweight champion according to the version of the associations WBO , IBF and WBA against the Italian Francesco Pianeta by knockout .
Sunday 5th May 2013
- Salzburg / Austria : In the state elections , the ÖVP becomes the strongest force with 29.01% of the vote, ahead of the previously ruling SPÖ with 23.81%.
Monday May 6, 2013
- Berlin / Germany : The Petersberg Climate Dialogue in preparation for the UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw in November begins.
- Canberra / Australia : The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg , who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust , is posthumously made the country's first honorary citizen.
- Dhaka / Bangladesh : 30 people are killed in street battles between radical Islamists and the police.
- Islamabad / Pakistan : Up to 15 people died in an attack by the Taliban on an election campaign event in the Kurram region .
- Munich / Germany : The NSU trial at the Munich Higher Regional Court begins. The Ceska series of murders is negotiated with nine fatalities. The xenophobic motivation for the acts is evidenced by an NSU video, and Beate Zschäpe is charged with murder .
Tuesday May 7, 2013
- Frankfurt (Oder) / Germany : The former Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher is awarded the Viadrina Prize for his services to German- Polish understanding .
- Hangu / Pakistan : At least 23 people die in an attack on an election campaign event of the JUI-F party .
- Municipio Ecatepec de Morelos / Mexico : At least 19 people die when a tanker truck explodes.
Wednesday May 8, 2013
- Shimla / India : 33 people die in a bus accident in the state of Himachal Pradesh .
Thursday May 9, 2013
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- Aachen / Germany : The Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is awarded this year's Charlemagne Prize.
- Dhaka / Bangladesh : A special tribunal sentenced the deputy general secretary of the opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami Muhammad Kamaruzzaman to death for his involvement in war crimes during the war of independence .
- New York , United States : Seven people who manipulated bank details for more than 45 million US dollars worldwide are arrested.
Friday May 10, 2013
- Hamburg / Germany : The Pirate Party appoints Katharina Nocun as managing director.
- New York / United States : With the installation of the antenna, One World Trade Center will reach its final height of 541 m, making it the tallest building in the USA.
Saturday 11th May 2013
- Chengdu / China : 27 miners die in a gas explosion in a mine in the province of Sichuan .
- Islamabad / Pakistan : In the parliamentary elections the party wins Muslim League of Nawaz Sharif . The election is accompanied by numerous terrorist attacks in which at least eleven people are killed.
- Cairo / Egypt : Start of the second trial against the former ruler Husni Mubarak
- Reyhanli / Turkey : At least 40 people died in two bomb attacks at the border crossing to Syria .
Sunday May 12, 2013
- Sofia / Bulgaria : The conservative GERB party of the resigned Prime Minister Boyko Borissow wins the parliamentary elections , but misses an absolute majority.
- Wolfsburg / Germany : For the first time in the club's history, VfL Wolfsburg are German women's football champions.
Monday May 13, 2013
- Kandahar / Afghanistan : At least ten people die in a car bomb explosion in Kandahar province .
- Manila / Philippines : General election
- Berlin / Germany : Start of the trial in the case of Jonny K.
- Dortmund / Germany : Ulrich Tukur is honored with the German Language Culture Prize endowed with € 30,000 .
Tuesday May 14, 2013
- Sittwe / Myanmar : When a ship with refugees capsizes in front of Cyclone Mahasen , more than 50 people are killed.
- Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Court of Justice decides that operators of Internet search engines have to delete word combinations from their automatic completion if they are informed that these combinations violate personal rights.
- New York City / United States : The auction house Sotheby’s is auctioning the painting “ Domplatz, Milan ” by Gerhard Richter for 37.1 million US dollars; this is the highest price ever paid for a picture by a German artist.
- Kiel / Germany : THW Kiel becomes German handball champions for the 18th time three game days before the end of the season .
Wednesday 15th May 2013
- Baghdad / Iraq : At least 32 people die in bomb attacks in various cities in the country.
- Portland / United States : Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University clone human embryonic stem cells for the first time .
- Cannes / France : The 66th International Film Festival opens with Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby .
- New York City / United States : The auction house Christie’s achieves total proceeds of almost half a billion US dollars from the auction of several contemporary works of art; this is the highest sum ever achieved in an art auction.
- Amsterdam / Netherlands : In the final of the UEFA Europa League , Chelsea won 2-1 over Benfica Lisbon .
Thursday May 16, 2013
- Baghdad / Iraq : 17 people are killed in attacks in Baghdad and Mosul .
- Dhaka / Bangladesh : Cyclone Mahasen kills at least twelve people in the Patuakhali district .
- Washington, DC / United States : NASA announces the abandonment of the Kepler Space Telescope .
Friday 17th May 2013
- Antakya / Turkey : At least ten people died in the explosion of an oil storage facility in Hatay province .
- Baghdad / Iraq : More than 70 people are killed in several attacks in the country.
- Guangzhou / China : After severe storms and floods, 19 people died in Guangdong Province and at least 34 people across the country.
- Owerri / Nigeria : 31 people are killed by a falling tree in Imo state .
- Paris / France : The Constitutional Court rejects all objections to the legalization of same-sex marriage in France. The civil marriage of homosexual couples is expected to be permitted from June .
- Peshawar / Pakistan : Twelve people are killed in bomb attacks on two mosques in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa .
Saturday 18th May 2013
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- Malmö / Sweden : The Danish singer Emmelie de Forest wins the 58th Eurovision Song Contest with the title Only Teardrops .
- Mannheim / Germany : Start of the German Gymnastics Festival in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region
- Mönchengladbach / Germany : FC Bayern Munich is now officially German soccer champions 2013 .
Sunday 19th May 2013
- Hamburg / Germany : The New Apostolic Church appoints the French Jean-Luc Schneider as head of the church .
- Homs / Syria : 40 people die in an army offensive in Homs Governorate .
- Cologne / Germany : In the final of the women's DFB Cup , VfL Wolfsburg defeated 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 3-2.
- Maiduguri / Nigeria : 17 people die in a military offensive against the Islamist group Boko Haram .
- Sunnyvale / United States : Yahoo is taking over the blogging platform Tumblr for a purchase price of 1.1 billion US dollars .
- Stockholm / Sweden : In the final of the Ice Hockey World Championship defeated Sweden to Switzerland with 5: 1, becoming the ninth time ice hockey World champion .
Monday 20th May 2013
- Adenau / Germany : Bernd Schneider , Jeroen Bleekemolen , Sean Edwards and Nicki Thiim in a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 win the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring .
- Baghdad / Iraq : At least 71 people die in a series of attacks across the country.
- Bern / Switzerland : Grasshopper Club Zurich wins the final of the Swiss Cup in football at the Stade de Suisse 5-4 on penalties against FC Basel .
- Caofan / China : twelve people are killed in an explosion in an explosives factory.
- Oklahoma City / United States : The Midwest of the country is hit by a series of tornadoes ; 24 people died in the city of Moore .
- Pol-e Chomri / Afghanistan : Twelve people die in a suicide attack in Baglan province .
Tuesday May 21, 2013
- Guatemala City / Guatemala : Eleven days after former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt was sentenced to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity, the Constitutional Court overturned the verdict for procedural errors.
- Kanpur / India : Eleven people die in a bus accident.
Wednesday May 22, 2013
- Idlib / Syria : 54 people are killed when rebels conquer an army base .
- Leipzig / Germany : 80 social democratic parties from all over the world found the Progressive Alliance network .
- Mexico City / Mexico : Scientists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History announce the discovery of around 5,000 cave paintings in the Sierra de San Carlos.
Thursday May 23, 2013
- Agadez / Niger : At least 23 people died in two attacks on a uranium plant and a military camp.
- London / United Kingdom : In the final of the UEFA Women's Champions League , VfL Wolfsburg defeated Olympique Lyon 1-0 and thus achieved the so-called triple of national championship, national cup and winning the Champion's League.
- Nyon / Switzerland : UEFA accepts the Gibraltar Football Association as its 54th member; In qualifying for the 2016 European Championship, the national football team of Gibraltar will for the first time play international matches recognized by UEFA.
- Quetta / Pakistan : At least twelve people die in an attack on a unit of elite soldiers.
Saturday 25th May 2013
- Gujrat / Pakistan : At least 16 students and one teacher died in the explosion of a gas-powered school bus.
- London / United Kingdom : In the final of the UEFA Champions League defeats Bayern Munich , Borussia Dortmund 1: by 2.
Sunday May 26, 2013
- Cannes / France : On the last day of the 66th Cannes International Film Festival , the jury will award the Palme d'Or to the French film La vie d'Adèle by Abdellatif Kechiche .
- Brescia / Italy : The overall winner of the 96th edition of the wheel - stage race Giro d'Italia goes to Vincenzo Nibali . It is his first overall victory on this tour and the 67th for an Italian.
- Kiel / Germany : In the local elections in Schleswig-Holstein , the CDU is the strongest force with 38.9% of the vote, ahead of the SPD with 29.8%.
- Salzburg / Austria : After the game at defending champion RB Salzburg , FK Austria Wien is now officially the 2013 Austrian football champions .
Monday May 27, 2013
Wednesday May 29, 2013
- Yakutsk / Russia : Employees of the North-Eastern Federal University of Yakutsk announce that they have discovered the well-preserved carcass of a mammoth with muscle tissue and liquid blood in the permafrost of the Lyachow Islands in Siberia .
Thursday May 30, 2013
- The Hague / Netherlands : The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced six formerly high-ranking Bosnian Croatian leaders to prison terms of up to 25 years.
- Vienna / Austria : In the 78th Austrian Football Cup final , FC Pasching defeated FK Austria Wien 1-0 and was the first club in the third division to secure the ÖFB Cup.
Friday 31st May 2013
- Berlin / Germany : With the publication of the results of the 2011 census, it becomes known that 80.3 million people live in Germany ; this is around 1.5 million fewer than previously officially assumed.
See also
- Nekrolog May 2013 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in May
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in May
Web links
Commons : May 2013 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evangelical Church Congress: 80,000 believers pray in Hamburg's streets. In: Spiegel Online . May 2013, accessed May 23, 2017 .
- ^ Spiegel.de: Civil War in Syria: Opposition accuses Assad troops of new massacre , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Sudan: More than 60 dead in gold mine collapse , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ reuters.com: Venezuela's opposition files lawsuit against election , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ faz.net: ECB cuts key interest rate to a record low , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ The "Europe" series. European Central Bank , accessed April 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Mittelbayerische.de: Stamm wants speed with relatives affair , accessed on May 2, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Benedict returns to the Vatican , accessed on May 2, 2013.
- ↑ handelsblatt.com: 18th State: Maryland Abolishes the Death Penalty , accessed May 3, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Josef Haslinger is the new PEN President , accessed on May 3, 2013.
- ↑ iihf.com: 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship , accessed on May 3, 2013.
- ↑ n-tv.de: Not a nice evening for Horst Seehofer: Ugly nuances at the coronation mass , accessed on May 3, 2013.
- ↑ welt.de: In China, rat meat was sold as lamb , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ focus.de: 14th World Championship title defense: Wladimir Klitschko wins against Pianeta by knockout , accessed on May 4, 2013
- ↑ wienerzeitung.at: The preliminary final result ( memento from May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 29, 2013
- ↑ spiegel.de: Petersberg Climate Dialogue: Merkel conjures up a chance for a global climate agreement , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ zeit.de: Australia makes Judenretter Wallenberg an honorary citizen ( memento from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ focus.de: 30 dead in street battles with Islamists in Dhaka , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Pakistan: Dead in attack on election rally , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: The trial in Munich: Zschäpe in front of their judges , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ Genscher receives Viadrina Prize , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ kleinezeitung.at: 23 dead in an attack before the election in Pakistan , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Mexico: At least 19 dead after tank truck explosion , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ rp-online.de: 33 dead in a bus accident in India , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Lithuania's President Grybauskaite honored with Charlemagne Prize , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ tagblatt.ch: War Criminals in Bangladesh Must Die , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Indictment against New York cell: Cyber bank robbers loot 45 million dollars worldwide , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Ponader successor Katharina Nocun: The new face of the pirates , accessed on May 10, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Construction progress on One WTC: New York is great again , accessed on May 29, 2013.
- ↑ zeit.de: Change of power in the shadow of the Taliban , accessed on May 13, 2013.
- ↑ Dead and injured in attacks during the Pakistan election , accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Egypt's ex-ruler: Richter postpones the new Mubarak trial , accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ↑ zeit.de: Many dead in a bomb attack on the Turkish-Syrian border , accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ↑ zeit.de: Conservatives win election in Bulgaria , accessed on May 13, 2013
- ↑ ndr.de: The drop of bitterness in Wolfsburger Meistersekt ( memento from July 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Ten dead in an attack in Afghanistan , accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ↑ nzz.ch: Test for Aquino's reform policy , accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Main defendant denies involvement in beating attack , accessed on May 13, 2013
- ↑ The German Language Culture Prize goes to Ulrich Tukur , accessed on May 13, 2013
- ↑ dw.de: Boats with refugees capsized off Myanmar , accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: More power for the slandered , accessed on May 14, 2013
- ↑ spiegel.de: Most expensive living painter: Richter's “Domplatz, Milan” achieves 29 million , accessed on May 15, 2013.
- ↑ welt.de: THW Kiel is German champion for the 18th time , accessed on May 14, 2013
- ↑ aljazeera.com: Series of deadly bombings across Iraq , English, accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ↑ welt.de: Researchers clone human life for the first time , accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ^ Cannes Film Festival - Festival de Cannes , accessed May 15, 2013
- ↑ spiegel.de: Sensational auction: Christie's is auctioning off art for half a billion dollars , accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ↑ kicker.de: Ivanovic unleashed Chelsea at the last second , accessed on May 15, 2013
- ↑ rp-online.de: 17 dead in attacks in Iraq , accessed on June 2, 2013.
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Several deaths from cyclone "Mahasen" , accessed on June 2, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: NASA loses its planet hunter , accessed on June 2, 2013.
- ↑ Governor: Explosion in smuggled oil depot kills 10 in southern Turkey , accessed June 2, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Attacks: Series of bombs shakes Iraq - dozen dead , accessed on June 2, 2013.
- ↑ a b saarbruecker-zeitung.de: Cyclones , floods and storms: damage and deaths in storms , accessed on June 2, 2013.
- ^ France: Constitutional Council approves gay marriage. In: Spiegel Online . May 17, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2017 .
- ↑ rtl.de: xxx Pakistan: Attacks during Friday prayers ( memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on June 2, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de/: ESC winner Emmelie de Forest: Barefoot to Victory , accessed on June 2, 2013.
- ↑ wn.de: A real experience for TV Hohne , accessed on June 2, 2013.
- ↑ nak.org: The new Chief Apostle of the New Apostolic Church is called Jean-Luc Schneider , accessed on June 2, 2013.
- ↑ Die Welt : welt.de: Dozens of dead in offensive by the Syrian army in Homs province , accessed on June 2, 2013.
- ↑ kicker.de: Pohlers' goal is just enough at the end , accessed on June 2, 2013
- ↑ kleinezeitung.at: Army offensive against Islamists in Nigeria ( memento from June 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), May 20, 2013.
- ↑ zeit.de: Yahoo buys Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars , accessed on June 2, 2013.
- ↑ kicker.de: Swiss fairy tale unfinished: World Champion Sweden , accessed on June 2, 2013.
- ↑ ksta.de: Mercedes triumph at the Nürburgring , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ faz.de: Many dead in a series of car bomb attacks , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ welt.de: Twelve dead in explosion in explosives factory , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ zeit.de: Oklahoma corrects the number of deaths from 91 to 24 , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Suicide attack: Taliban kill eleven Afghans in the Bundeswehr deployment area , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Court overturns the verdict against ex-dictator Montt , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ rp-online.de: Eleven dead in bus accident , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ zeit.de: Observatory: Rebels conquer army base in Syrian Idlib , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ nzz.ch: Schism in the international left , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ focus.de: Archaeologists find thousands of rock paintings in Mexico , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de: Bomb attacks on uranium mine and military camp in Niger , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ kicker.de: Triple! Wolfsburg beats Lyon too! , accessed June 3, 2013.
- ↑ kicker.de: UEFA Executive Committee: Niersbach is there , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Attack on Pakistani elite unit: Taliban kill 13 people with rickshaw bomb , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ welt.de: School bus explodes, 16 children die , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ kicker.de: Robben puts Bavaria's European crown on , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Cannes Film Festival: "La vie d'Adèle" wins the Palme d'Or , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ^ Giro d'Italia: Elenco Edizioni. In: museociclismo.it, Museo del Ciclismo Associazione. Retrieved October 24, 2017 (Italian).
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- ↑ mz-web.de: At least 75 dead in the series of attacks in Baghdad , accessed on June 3, 2013.
- ↑ n-tv.de: Liquid mammoth blood found , accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ↑ stern.de: Croatian ex-leaders found guilty by the UN tribunal , accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ↑ oefb.at: Pasching wins Samsung Cup! - The surprising finalist sensationally disenchanted the master , accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: This is why Germany has shrunk , accessed on May 31, 2013