Sunday,  May 13, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 304 • 25 of 27 •  Other Editions

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Today in History
The Associated Press

• Today is Sunday, May 13, the 134th day of 2012. There are 232 days left in the year. This is Mother's Day.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 13, 1992, the Falun Gong movement had its beginning as the sect's founder, Li Hongzhi, began publicly lecturing on his spiritual philosophy in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun.
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• On this date:
• In 1607, English colonists arrived by ship at the site of what became the Jamestown settlement in Virginia (the colonists went ashore the next day).
• In 1846, the United States declared that a state of war already existed with Mexico.
• In 1861, Britain's Queen Victoria declared her country's neutrality in the American Civil War, but also acknowledged that the Confederacy had belligerent rights.
• In 1917, three shepherd children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of

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