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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.
1997	Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
1996	Two women and four children are killed after Israeli helicopter fired rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.
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 Lộc 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	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 Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and 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 Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approx 379-1000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India; and approximately 1,500 injured.
1909	The 31 March Incident leads to the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
1873	The Colfax massacre: More than 60 to 150 black men are murdered in Colfax, Louisiana, while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan.
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.
1699	The Sikh religion is formalised as the Khalsa
1613	Samuel Argall, having captured Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia, sets off with her to Jamestown with the intention of exchanging her for English prisoners held by her father.
1612	In one of the epic samurai duels in Japanese history, 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

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Year	Name
1927	Rosemary Haughton, English philosopher, theologian, and author
1902	Marguerite Henry, American author (d. 1997)
1967	Michael Eisen, American biologist and academic
1879	Oswald Bruce Cooper, American type designer, lettering artist, graphic designer, and educator (d. 1940)
1922	Heinz Baas, German footballer and manager (d. 1994)
1824	William Alexander, Irish archbishop, poet, and theologian (d. 1911)
1928	Alan Clark, English historian and politician, Minister of State for Trade (d. 1999)
1940	Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
1911	Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer and manager (d. 1946)
1854	Lucy Craft Laney, American founder of the Haines Normal and Industrial School, Augusta, Georgia (d. 1933)

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
1971	Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
1969	Alfred Karindi, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1901)
1993	Wallace Stegner, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1909)
548	Lý Nam Đế, Vietnamese emperor (b. 503)
1911	John McLane, Scottish-American politician, 50th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1852)
1962	Culbert Olson, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of California (b. 1876)
1722	Charles Leslie, Irish priest and theologian (b. 1650)
2008	John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and academic (b. 1911)
2006	Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1918)
2000	Giorgio Bassani, Italian author and poet (b. 1916)