April 13

April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). There are 262 days remaining. It is also the Ides of April

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and Observances

Events

• 1055 - Victor II is consecrated pope
• 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
• 1180 - Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter
• 1598 - King Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots
• 1829 - The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics
• 1849 - Hungary becomes a republic
• 1861 - American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders
• 1873 - Colfax Massacre
• 1883 - Alferd Packer is convicted of cannibalism
• 1902 - James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming
• 1919 - Amritsar massacre: British and Gurkha troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India
• 1941 - Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed
• 1970 - The oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew into deadly peril.
• 1976 - The US Treasury reintroduces the 2 dollar bill during the US bicentennial.
• 1983 - Harold Washington is elected as the first African-American mayor in Chicago's history
• 1984 - Pete Rose becomes the first player in National League history to collect 4,000 hits
• 1985 - Enver Hoxha is succeeded by Ramiz Alia as the head of Albania's party leader
• 1986 - Jack Nicklaus wins his sixth Masters Tournament
• 1987 - Portugal and China sign an agreement in which the island of Macao would be returned to China in 1999
• 1990 - The Soviet Union admits to committing the Katyn Massacre
• 1993 - Lee Smith passes Jeff Reardon for first on the all-time saves list with his 358th save in a 9-7 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers
• 1997 - Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament
• 1997 - For the first time in 36 years, two doubleheader baseball games are played between the same pairs of cities on the same day. The San Francisco Giants squared off against the New York Mets while 3,000 miles away, the Oakland Athletics faced the New York Yankees

• 1519 - Catherine de Medici, queen of France (d. 1589)
• 1570 - Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (d. 1606)
• 1713 - Frederick (Lord) North George III's sixth prime minister (d. 1792)
• 1743 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
• 1771 - Richard Trevithick, Mechanical Engineer and developer of the World's first locomotive (d. 1833)
• 1852 - F.W. Woolworth, merchant/businessman, founder of Woolworth's (d. 1919)
• 1860 - James Ensor, painter (d. 1949)
• 1866 - Butch Cassidy, Wild West outlaw (d. 1908)
• 1872 - Alexander Roda Roda, writer (d. 1945)
• 1880 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood (d. 1955)
• 1881 - Ludwig Binswanger, existential psychiatrist (d. 1966)
• 1887 - Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d. 1995)
• 1889 - Herbert Osborne Yardley, Cryptographer (d. 1958)
• 1892 - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, inventor of Radar (d. 1973)
• 1894 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
• 1901 - Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst and semantician (d. 1981)
• 1904 - Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 1987)
• 1906 - Samuel Beckett, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in literature (d. 1989)
• 1907 - Harold E. Stassen, frequent candidate for President of the United States (d. 2001)
• 1909 - Eudora Welty, writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1973 (d. 2001)
• 1911 - Ico Hitrec, Croatian football player (d.1946)
• 1919 - Howard Keel, actor, singer, former president of the Screen Actors Guild
• 1920 - Roberto Calvi, banker (d. 1982)
• 1920 - Liam Cosgrave, fifth Taoiseach of Ireland
• 1923 - Don Adams, actor (Get Smart), comedian
• 1924 - Stanley Donen, director
• 1926 - John George Vanderbilt Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
• 1928 - Alan Clark - maverick British politician
• 1935 - Erich von Däniken, writer
• 1935 - Lyle Waggoner, actor
• 1937 - Lanford Wilson, playwright
• 1939 - Paul Sorvino, actor
• 1939 - Seamus Heaney, poet
• 1944 - Jack Casady, musician ("Jefferson Airplane")
• 1946 - Al Green, soul singer, pastor
• 1948 - B. Allan Benson, NLRB Regional Director
• 1950 - Ron Perlman, actor
• 1951 - Peabo Bryson, pop singer
• 1951 - Peter Davison, actor and the fifth Doctor Who
• 1951 - Max Weinberg, drummer
• 1954 - Jimmy Destri, musician
• 1963 - Garry Kasparov, chess grandmaster
• 1964 - Caroline Rhea, actress
• 1970 - Rick Schroder, actor
• 1972 - Mariusz Czerkawski, ice hockey player
• 1974 - Sergei Gonchar, hockey player
• 1976 - Jonathan Brandis, actor (d. 2003)

• 1605 - Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia
• 1695 - Jean de la Fontaine, folklorist (b. 1621)
• 1868 - Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
• 1911 - George Washington Glick, Governor of Kansas (b. 1827)
• 1925 - Elwood Haynes, automobile pioneer
• 1945 - Ernst Cassirer, German-Jewish philosopher (b. 1874)
• 1962 - Culbert Olson, Governor of California (b. 1876)
• 2000 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis) (b. 1916)
• 2002 - Damon Knight, science fiction author (b. 1922)
• 2002 - Jon Gustafson, editor

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