Historical Events on April 13, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on April 13th This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2017 | The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. |
| 2003 | A bus near the Vale of Tempe, Greece was involved in a major vehicle accident with a truck and multiple cars, leaving 21 students in the tenth grade of Makrochori, Imathia High School dead and nine injured during their return to their homes from a trip to Athens. |
| 1997 | Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament. |
| 1992 | Basements throughout the Chicago Loop are flooded, forcing the Chicago Board of Trade Building and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to close. |
| 1987 | Portugal and China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999. |
| 1976 | The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration. |
| 1976 | Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland. |
| 1975 | An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War. |
| 1972 | The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan. |
| 1972 | Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lỿc begins. |
| 1970 | An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon. |
| 1964 | At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field. |
| 1960 | The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system. |
| 1958 | American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. |
| 1953 | CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra. |
| 1948 | In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre. |
| 1945 | World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany. |
| 1945 | World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna. |
| 1944 | Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established. |
| 1943 | World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyſ Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility. |
| 1943 | The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth. |
| 1941 | A Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. |
| 1919 | Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India; at least 1200 are wounded. |
| 1909 | The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. |
| 1873 | The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place. |
| 1870 | The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded. |
| 1865 | American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces. |
| 1861 | American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces. |
| 1849 | Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence in a closed session of the National Assembly. |
| 1829 | The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament. |
| 1777 | American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey. |
| 1742 | George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland. |
| 1613 | Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father; she is brought to Henricus as hostage. |
| 1612 | Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō at Funajima island. |
| 1204 | Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. |
| 1111 | Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. |
Famous People Born on April 13
Here is a random list who born on April 13. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1946 | Al Green, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor |
| 1890 | Frank Murphy, American jurist and politician, 56th United States Attorney General (d. 1949) |
| 1954 | Barbara Roche, English lawyer and politician, Minister of State for Immigration |
| 1873 | John W. Davis, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Solicitor General (d. 1955) |
| 1956 | Possum Bourne, New Zealand racing driver (d. 2003) |
| 1936 | Col Joye, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1769 | Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator (d. 1830) |
| 1951 | Peter Davison, English actor |
| 1828 | Josephine Butler, English feminist and social reformer (d. 1906) |
| 1951 | Leszek Borysiewicz, Welsh immunologist and academic |
Famous People Deaths On April 13
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on April 13. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1966 | Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi colonel and politician, 2nd President of Iraq (b. 1921) |
| 1942 | Henk Sneevliet, Dutch politician (b. 1883) |
| 1954 | Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1890) |
| 2005 | Philippe Volter, Belgian actor and director (b. 1959) |
| 1641 | Richard Montagu, English bishop (b. 1577) |
| 1978 | Jack Chambers, Canadian painter and director (b. 1931) |
| 814 | Krum, khan of the Bulgarian Khanate |
| 1942 | Anton Uesson, Estonian engineer and politician, 17th Mayor of Tallinn (b. 1879) |
| 1138 | Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076) |
| 1592 | Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511) |
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