Today is Friday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2005. There are 232 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2005. There are 232 days left in the year. On this date in 1981, Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.
In 1607, the English colony at Jamestown, Va., is settled. In 1846, the United States declares that a state of war already exists against Mexico. In 1917, three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, report seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary. In 1918, the first U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of an airplane, are introduced. On some of the stamps, the airplane is printed upside-down, making them collector's items. In 1940, in his first speech as prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill tells the House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." In 1954, President Eisenhower signs into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act. In 1958, Vice President Nixon's limousine is battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1985, a confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ends as police drop an explosive onto the group's headquarters; 11 people die in the resulting fire.
May 13, 1980: Donald L. French, a professional engineer from Monroe, Mich., is appointed executive director of the Mahoning Valley Economic Development Corp, the organization charged with guiding much of the area's industrial revitalization.
Girard Service Director Joseph Christopher, stung by Councilman Fred Simeone's threats to "call in the EPA" over conditions at the sewage treatment plant, announces his imminent resignation.
May 13, 1965: The Youngstown Hospital Association releases artists renderings of a proposed new hospital to be built on a 21-acre site in Boardman that has been donated by L.A. Beeghly, who also pledged the first $1 million toward construction of the facility.
U.S. District Court Judge Paul Jones of Cleveland, one of Youngstown's most distinguished native sons, will retire from the federal bench Nov. 4, the day before his 85th birthday. He has served since 1923.
May 13, 1955: The Ohio Highway Department has told Boardman authorities that busy routes 7 and 224 will not be closed to traffic for the traditional Memorial Day parade from Boardman School to the old cemetery in Route 224.
A.I. Kidston, vice president of the dollar Savings & amp; Trust Co., is elected president of the Ohio Bankers Association at the closing session of its three-day convention in Cleveland.
May 13, 1930: Tony Cicciarello, 22-year-old Lowellville shoemaker, is shot seven times through the head and body the night before he was to be married. His bride-to-be, Pasqualina Polito, unaware of what happened, waited for him to appear for the 10 a.m. wedding, telling others, "I wonder where he is."
The conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, votes to deliver a reprimand to the press for giving publicity to charges brought against four bishops of the church, including one accused of gambling for purchasing stock on margin.