On This Day, May 13

President Polk declares war on Mexico, 1846

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Connecticut Patriot Eliphalet Dyer dies, 1807

AUTOMOTIVE

Autoworkers union head joins Chrysler board,1980

CIVIL WAR

Grant moves on Jackson, Mississippi, 1863

COLD WAR

Vice President Nixon is attacked, 1958

CRIME

Pope John Paul II is shot,1981

A raid is set for MOVE headquarters, 1985

DISASTER

Fire breaks out at club in Japan, 1972

GENERAL INTEREST

Mary Queen of Scots defeated, 1568

Jamestown founded,1607

Pope John Paul II shot,1981

HOLLYWOOD

Edison sues over new motion-picture technology, 1898

LITERARY

Daphne Du Maurier, author of Rebecca, is born, 1907

MUSIC

Stevie Wonder comes of age, 1971

OLD WEST

The inventor of western swing dies, 1975

PRESIDENTIAL

Nixon attacked by angry Venezuelans, 1958

SPORTS

First Battle of the Sexes,1973

VIETNAM WAR

Paris peace talks at standstill, 1971

Heavy fighting continues at Quang Tri and Kontum,1972

WORLD WAR I

Edith Wharton writes of the war's effect on France, 1915

WORLD WAR II

Churchill announces: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.", 1940