Vine star Twaimz

Events in 1995 and 13-5

Events in US in the birth year of Twaimz

• Criminal trial of O. J. Simpson opens in California (Jan. 24).
• Scores killed as terrorist's car bomb blows up block-long Oklahoma City federal building (April 19); Timothy McVeigh, 27, arrested as suspect (April 21); authorities seek second suspect, link right-wing paramilitary groups to bombing (April 22).
• Los Angeles jury finds O. J. Simpson not guilty of murder charges (Oct. 3).
• Pope John Paul II visits US on whirlwind tour (Oct. 4-8).
• Million Man March draws hundreds of thousands of black men to capital (Oct. 16).

Birthday Twaimz (13-5) in history

• Day 13-5 year 1568: Queen Mary of the Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to Northern England.
• Day 13-5 year 1846: The United States formally declared war on Mexico after several days of fighting.
• Day 13-5 year 1938: Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleans's jazz classic, When the Saints Go Marching In, on Decca Records.
• Day 13-5 year 1940: Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
• Day 13-5 year 1973: Tennis male chauvinist Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Smith Court, 6-2, 6-1 in front of a world-wide television audience. He would lose to Billie Jean King later that year.
• Day 13-5 year 1981: Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter's Square, Rome.