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<noinclude>{{On this day/doc}}</noinclude>'''[[{{#titleparts:{{PAGENAME}}|1|2}}May 13]]''':
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*[[1719]] – '''[[French Pensacola|French forces]]''' led by brothers [[Wikipedia:Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville|Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville]] and [[Wikipedia:Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville|Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville]] departed [[Mobile]] for Pensacola.
*[[1739]] – '''[[Elias Durnford]]''' was born.
*[[1862]] – '''[[Civil War]]''': The [[Wikipedia:USS Vincennes (1826)|USS ''Vincennes'']] arrived in [[Pensacola Bay]], the first Union ship to enter the harbor since hostilities began.
*[[1908]] – The '''[[streetcar operators' strike]]''' was officially ended following an unsuccessful attempt to dynamite a second streetcar.
*[[1998]] – '''[[Kent Hovind]]''' and [[Jo Hovind|his wife]] submitted a document to the [[Escambia County Clerk of Courts]] renouncing their U.S. citizenship and attempting to revoke all signatures they had theretofore made on government documents.
