What happened on April 13? There are more than 317 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About April 13
April 13 is the 104th day of the year 2024. There are 262 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday. This day falls under the 15th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Amarillo, Texas 79118 sunrise occured at 07:15 AM and sunset occured at 08:19 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aries. The modern birthstone for this month is Diamond while the mystical birthstone is Opal.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 291 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For April 13
- 1111Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1204Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
- 1256The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
- 1598Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.)
- 1612Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro at Funajima island.
- 1613Samuel Argall kidnaps Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas in Virginia along the Potomac River.
- 1742George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
- 1776American Revolutionary War: American forces are surprised in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
- 1796The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
- 1829The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
- 1849Hungary becomes a republic.
- 1861American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
- 1868The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
- 1870The Metropolitan Museum of Art founded.
- 1873The Colfax Massacre takes place.
- 1902James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
- 1909The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the deposal of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
- 1919Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
- 1919Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India. At least 1200 wounded.
- 1919The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
- 1941Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
- 1943The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth.
- 1943World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
- 1944Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
- 1945World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.
- 1945World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria.
- 1948The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.
- 1953CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
- 1958During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
- 1960The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system.
- 1964At 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.
- 1970An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
- 1972The 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.
- 1972Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
- 1974Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
- 1975Bus massacre in Lebanon: Attack by the Phalangist resistance kill 26 militia members of the P.F.L. of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
- 1976The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson’s 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
- 1984India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control.
- 1987Portugal and the People’s Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
- 1992The Great Chicago Flood.
- 1997Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
Who Were Born On April 13?
- 1506Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1546)
- 1519Catherine de' Medici, wife of Henry II of France (d. 1589)
- 1570Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator (d. 1606)
- 1573Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1625)
- 1584Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)
- 1593Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (d. 1641)
- 1618Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693)
- 1648Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
- 1715John Hanson, President of the United States in Congress Assembled (d. 1783)
- 1729Thomas Percy, Bishop and magazine editor (d. 1811)
- 1732Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
- 1735Isaac Low, delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791)
- 1743Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1747Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793)
- 1764Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (d. 1830)
- 1769Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830)
- 1771Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor (d. 1833)
- 1780Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (d. 1868)
- 1784Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
- 1787John Robertson, U.S. politician (d. 1873)
- 1802Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)
- 1808Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (d. 1889)
- 1825Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868)
- 1828Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English theologian and Bishop (d. 1889)
- 1832Juan Montalvo, Ecuadoran author (d. 1889)
- 1841Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905)
- 1850Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer (d. 1917)
- 1851Robert Abbe, American surgeon (d. 1928)
- 1852F.W. Woolworth, American businessman (d. 1919)
- 1860James Ensor, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
- 1866Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1908)
- 1872Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer (d. 1945)
- 1873John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955)
- 1875Ray Lyman Wilbur, 31st United States Secretary of the Interior and 3rd President of Stanford University (d. 1949)
- 1879Edward Bruce, Director art projects (d. 1943)
- 1880Charles Christie, Canadian film studio owner (d. 1955)
- 1885Georg Lukács, Hungarian-born philosopher and literary critic (d. 1971)
- 1885Vean Gregg, American baseball player (d. 1964)
- 1887Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d. 1995)
- 1889Herbert Osborne Yardley, American cryptographer (d. 1958)
- 1890Frank Murphy, American public servant (d. 1949)
- 1891Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian winner of the Victoria Cross (d. 1921)
- 1891Nella Larsen, African-American novelist (d. 1964)
- 1891Robert Scholl, German politician, father of Hans and Sophie Scholl (d. 1973)
- 1892Arthur Travers ‘Bomber’Harris, British Air Force commander (d. 1984)
- 1892Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1973)
- 1894Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
- 1897Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (d. 1917)
- 1899Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and Scrabble inventor (d. 1993)
- 1900Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
- 1901Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981)
- 1902Marguerite Henry, American author
- 1902Philippe de Rothschild, French race car driver and wine grower (d. 1988)
- 1904Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 1987)
- 1906Bud Freeman, American musician (d. 1991)
- 1906Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
- 1907Harold Stassen, American Presidential candidate (d. 2001)
- 1909Eudora Welty, American writer (d. 2001)
- 1909Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish mathematician (d. 1984)
- 1911Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer (d. 1946)
- 1911Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 1994)
- 1916Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist, and publisher (d. 2006)
- 1917Robert O. Anderson, American businessman (d. 2007)
- 1919Howard Keel, American actor, singer, and president of the Screen Actors Guild (d. 2004)
- 1919Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist activist (d. 1995)
- 1919Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (d. 2000)
- 1919Roland Gaucher, French journalist (d. 2007)
- 1920Claude Cheysson, French politician
- 1920John LaPorta, American musician (d. 2004)
- 1920Liam Cosgrave, fifth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
- 1920Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
- 1922John Braine, British novelist (d. 1986)
- 1922Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian First President and Father of the Nation (d. 1999)
- 1923Don Adams, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
- 1924Jack Chick, American evangelist
- 1924Stanley Donen, American film director
- 1926Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (d. 1983)
- 1926John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
- 1927Maurice Ronet, French film actor (d. 1983)
- 1928Alan Clark, English politician (d. 1999)
- 1931Dan Gurney, American race car driver and team owner
- 1931Jon Stone, co-creator of Sesame Street (d. 1997)
- 1931Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2001)
- 1932Orlando Letelier, Chilean politician (d. 1976)
- 1933Ben Nighthorse Campbell, U.S. politician
- 1935Lyle Waggoner, American actor
- 1937Edward Fox, English actor
- 1937Lanford Wilson, American playwright (d. 2011)
- 1939Paul Sorvino, American actor
- 1939Seamus Heaney, Irish writer, Nobel laureate
- 1940J.M.G. Le Clézio, French novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature.
- 1940Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
- 1940Max Mosley, British racing driver, engineer and former president of the FIA
- 1940Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (d. 1988)
- 1941Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics creator (d. 1983)
- 1941Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
- 1942Ataol Behramoglu Turkish poet and writer
- 1942Bill Conti, American composer
- 1943Billy Kidd, American skier
- 1944Brian Pendleton, musician (d. 2001)
- 1944Charles Burnett, American film director
- 1944Jack Casady, American musician
- 1944Susan Davis, American politician
- 1945Bob Kalsu, American football player (d. 1970)
- 1945Charles Robinson, American actor
- 1945Judy Nunn, Australian actress
- 1945Lowell George, American singer/guitarist (d. 1979)
- 1945Tony Dow, American actor
- 1946Al Green, American singer and pastor
- 1947Thanos Mikroutsikos, Greek composer & former minister
- 1948Drago Jančar, Slovenian writer
- 1948Nam Hae-il, Chief of Naval Operations of Republic of Korea Navy
- 1948Sue Doughty, British politician
- 1949Christopher Hitchens, English-born journalist, critic, and author (d. 2011)
- 1949Frank Doran, Scottish politician
- 1949Ricardo Zunino, Argentine racing driver
- 1950Ron Perlman, American actor
- 1950Terry Lester, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1950William Sadler, American actor
- 1951Joachim Streich, East German footballer
- 1951Max Weinberg, American drummer
- 1951Peabo Bryson, American singer
- 1951Peter Davison, English actor
- 1952David Drew, British politician
- 1952Erick Avari, British-Indian actor
- 1952Ron Dittemore, American space administrator
- 1953Stephen Byers, British politician
- 1954Barbara Roche, British politician
- 1954Jimmy Destri, American keyboardist
- 1954Niels Olsen, Danish singer
- 1955Lupe Pintor, Mexican boxer
- 1955Ole von Beust, Mayor of Hamburg
- 1956Peter ‘Possum’Bourne, New Zealand rally driver (d. 2003)
- 1957Amy Goodman, American activist, host of Democracy Now
- 1957Dallas Moir, Scottish cricketer
- 1957Gary Kroeger, American actor
- 1957Saundra Santiago, American actress
- 1960Bob Casey, Jr., Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
- 1960Olaf Ludwig, German cyclist
- 1960Rudi Völler, German football coach
- 1961Hiro Yamamoto, American rock bassist
- 1962Dave Miley, former baseball player and manager
- 1962Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (d. 1988)
- 1963Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player
- 1964Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress
- 1964Davis Love III, Professional Golfer
- 1965Patricio Pouchulu, Argentine architect
- 1966Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian football player
- 1966Mando, Greek singer
- 1966Marc Ford, American musician
- 1967Dana Barros, American basketball player
- 1967Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican singer
- 1969Dirk Muschiol, German footballer
- 1970Gerry Creaney, Scottish footballer
- 1970Monty Brown, American professional wrestler
- 1970Ricardo Rincon, Mexican baseball player
- 1970Rick Schroder, American actor
- 1970Szilveszter Csollány, Hungarian gymnast
- 1971Bo Outlaw, American basketball player
- 1971Dina Korzun, Russian actress
- 1971Valensia, Dutch singer
- 1972Aaron Lewis, American singer (Staind)
- 1972Mariusz Czerkawski, Polish ice hockey player
- 1973Bokeem Woodbine, American actor
- 1974Darren Turner, British racing driver
- 1974David Schurmann, Brazilian film director
- 1974David Zdrilić, Australian soccer player
- 1974Sergei Gonchar, Russian ice hockey player
- 1975Bruce Dyer, English footballer
- 1975David Philip Hefti, Swiss composer and conductor
- 1975Lou Bega, German-born musician and artist
- 1976Glenn Howerton, American actor
- 1976Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1976Patrik Eliáš, Czech ice hockey player
- 1976Valentina Cervi, Italian actress
- 1976Yu Ji-tae, South Korean actor
- 1978Arron Asham, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978Carles Puyol, Catalan footballer
- 1978Chris Sligh, American Idol finalist
- 1978James Jordan, English professional ballroom dancer
- 1978Kyle Howard, American actor
- 1979Baron Davis, American basketball player
- 1979Meghann Shaughnessy, American tennis player
- 1980Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress
- 1980Jana Cova, Czech pornographic actress
- 1980Quentin Richardson, American basketball player
- 1981Courtney Peldon, American actress
- 1981Nat Borchers, American soccer player
- 1982Janice Vidal, Hong Kong singer
- 1982Jill Vidal, Hong Kong singer
- 1982Nellie McKay, American singer
- 1983Hunter Pence, American baseball player
- 1983Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
- 1984Anders Lindegaard, Danish footballer
- 1984Hiro Mizushima, Japanese actor
- 1987Antwone Taulton, Homeless Advocate
- 1987Brandon Hardesty, American internet entertainer
- 1987Massimiliano Pesenti, Italian footballer
Who Died On April 13?
- 799Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and chronicler (b. c. 720)
- 814Krum of Bulgaria
- 1093Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030)
- 1605Tsar Boris Godunov of Russia (b. c. 1551)
- 1612Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai
- 1635Fakhr-al-Din II, Druze Prince of Lebanon (b. 1572)
- 1638Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader (b. 1579)
- 1641Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)
- 1695Jean de la Fontaine, French author (b. 1621)
- 1722Charles Leslie, Irish Anglican theologian (b. 1650)
- 1793Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (b. 1763)
- 1794Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741)
- 1826Franz Danzi, German composer (b. 1763)
- 1853James Iredell, Jr., American politician (b. 1788)
- 1853Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
- 1855Henry De la Beche, English geologist (b. 1796)
- 1868Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
- 1880Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813)
- 1882Bruno Bauer, German theologian (b. 1809)
- 1886John Humphrey Noyes, American political and religious figure (b. 1811)
- 1890Samuel J. Randall, American politician (b. 1828)
- 1909Whitley Stokes, British lawyer (b. 1830)
- 1910William Quiller Orchardson, British painter (b. 1835)
- 1911George Washington Glick, American politician (b. 1827)
- 1911John McLane, American politician (b. 1852)
- 1912Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886)
- 1918Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
- 1927Georg Voigt, German politician (b. 1866)
- 1936Konstantinos Demertzis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
- 1936Milton Brown, American swing bandleader (b. 1903)
- 1938Grey Owl, British-born First Nations conservationist (b. 1888)
- 1941Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)
- 1942Anton Uesson, Estonian politician and engineer (b. 1879)
- 1942Henk Sneevliet, Dutch Communist (b. 1883)
- 1944Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist (b. 1857)
- 1945Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
- 1954Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician (b. 1890)
- 1954Emil Nolde, German painter and printmaker (b. 1867)
- 1959Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (b. 1901)
- 1961John A. Bennett, American convicted rapist (b. 1935)
- 1962Culbert Olson, American politician (b. 1876)
- 1966Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi politician (b. 1921)
- 1966Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
- 1971Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (b. 1921)
- 1971Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
- 1975François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye, Chadian politician (b. 1918)
- 1975Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1978Jack Chambers, Canadian artist (b. 1931)
- 1980Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1956)
- 1981Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)
- 1983Theodore Stephanides, Greek doctor and naturalist (b. 1896)
- 1984Dionyssis Papayannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
- 1984Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician (b. 1911)
- 1984Richard Hurndall, British actor (b. 1910)
- 1986Stephen Stucker, American actor (b. 1947)
- 1993Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909)
- 1996Leila Mackinlay, British writer (b. 1910)
- 1997Bryant Bowles, American white supremacist (b. 1920)
- 1997Dorothy Frooks, American author and military figure (b. 1896)
- 1997Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (b. 1903)
- 1998Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfer (b. 1960)
- 1999Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (b. 1924)
- 1999Willi Stoph, German politician (b. 1914)
- 2000Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (b. 1916)
- 2001Robert Moon, American postal inspector (b. 1917)
- 2002Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b. 1928)
- 2004Caron Keating, British television presenter (b. 1962)
- 2004Lou Berberet, American baseball player (b. 1929)
- 2005Don Blasingame, American baseball player (b. 1932)
- 2005Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (b. 1924)
- 2005Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (b. 1945)
- 2005Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (b. 1959)
- 2006Bill Baker, American baseball player (b. 1911)
- 2007Don Selwyn, Māori actor and film director (b. c. 1936)
- 2008John Wheeler, American physicist and educator (b. 1911)
- 2009Bruce Snyder, American football coach (b. 1940)
- 2009Harry Kalas, American sportscaster (b. 1936)
- 2009Mark Fidrych, American baseball player (b. 1954)
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