This Day in History for May 13

1940 - in his first speech as prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill told Parliament, \"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.\"

1607 - English colonists arrived by ship at the site of what became the Jamestown settlement in Virginia (the colonists went ashore the next day).

1846 - the United States declared that a state of war already existed with Mexico.

1917 - three shepherd children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.

1918 - the first U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, were issued to the public. (On a few of the stamps, the biplane was inadvertently printed upside-down, making them collector\'s items.)

1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act. The musical play \"The Pajama Game\" opened on Broadway.

1958 - Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, were spat upon and their limousine battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.

1968 - a one-day general strike took place in France in support of student protesters.

1981 - Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter\'s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca (MEH\'-met AH\'-lee AH\'-juh).

1985 - a confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped a bomb onto the group\'s row house; 11 people, including founder John Africa, died in the resulting fire that destroyed 61 homes.

1994 - President Bill Clinton nominated federal appeals Judge Stephen G. Breyer to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Harry A. Blackmun.