May 13

May 13 is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 232 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 1850: A fight between children escalates into an upheaval against the Bábís in Zanján.
• 2006: Egyptian identification card controversy: A loosely organized group of civil society organizations, journalists, writers, artists and academics, issue a collective statement calling for an end to discrimination against Bahá’ís in Egypt.
• 2016: Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, daughter of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani, meets with Fariba Kamalabadi, a member of the Friends in Iran, while the latter was on furlough from prison.
• 2018: The ten-year sentence of Afif Naeimi, the last member of the Friends in Iran remaining in prison, is extended, despite a judicial ruling stating that he is too ill to be incarcerated.

Births

• 1896: Ugo Giachery, prominent Hand of the Cause of God and International Bahá’í Council member.
• 1913: Collis Featherstone, prominent Australian Bahá’í and Hand of the Cause.

Deaths

• 1976: Doris Richardson, member of the first National Spiritual Assembly of Canada and a Knight of Bahá’u’lláh.