April 13
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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 .
Events
1055 - Victor II is consecrated pope
1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1180 - Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter
1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople
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 murder
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
1943 - World War II : The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners-of-war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre was announced in Germany , driving a wedge between the Western Allies , the Polish government-in-exile in London , and the Soviet Union.
1943 - The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC , on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson 's birth.
1945 - German troops massacre more than 1000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany. The atrocity is discovered two days later by American forces.
1970 - The oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 1975 - An attack by Phalangists on a Palestinian bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon marks the beginning of a 15 year civil war.
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 leader of Albania
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 - Baseball : 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 - Baseball : For the first time in 36 years, two doubleheader games are played between the same pairs of cities on the same day. The San Francisco Giants v New York Mets and New York Yankees v Oakland Athletics
2029 - The asteroid 2004 MN4 will pass within 65,000 km of the Earth
Births
1519 - Catherine de Medici , Queen of France (d. 1589 )
1570 - Guy Fawkes , Gunpowder Plot conspirator (d. 1606 )
1593 - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford , English statesman (d. 1641 )
1618 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy , French writer (d. 1693 )
1713 - Frederick (Lord) North , British prime minister (d. 1792 )
1729 - Thomas Percy , Bishop of Dromore and magazine editor (d. 1811 )
1735 - Isaac Low , New York delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791 )
1743 - Thomas Jefferson , 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826 )
1747 - Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793 )
1769 - Thomas Lawrence , English painter (d. 1830 )
1771 - Richard Trevithick , mechanical engineer (d. 1833 )
1780 - Alexander Mitchell , Irish engineer (d. 1868 )
1787 - John Robertson , U.S. congressman (d. 1873 )
1808 - Antonio Meucci , Italian inventor (d. 1896 )
1825 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee , Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868 )
1828 - Joseph Barber Lightfoot , English theologian and Bishop of Durham (d. 1889 )
1832 - Juan Montalvo , Ecuadoran author (d. 1889 )
1850 - Arthur Matthew Weld Downing , British astronomer (d. 1917 )
1852 - F.W. Woolworth , businessman, founder of Woolworth's (d. 1919 )
1860 - James Ensor , painter (d. 1949 )
1866 - Butch Cassidy , American outlaw (d. 1908 )
1872 - Alexander Roda Roda , writer (d. 1945 )
1873 - John W. Davis , American politician (d. 1955 )
1875 - Ray Lyman Wilbur , U.S. Secretary of the Interior (d. 1949 )
1880 - Charles Christie , film studio owner (d. 1955 )
1881 - Ludwig Binswanger , psychiatrist (d. 1966 )
1885 - Georg Lukács , philosopher and literary critic (d. 1971 )
1887 - Gordon S. Fahrni , Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d. 1995 )
1889 - Herbert Osborne Yardley , cryptographer (d. 1958 )
1890 - Frank Murphy , American public servant (d. 1949 )
1891 - Nella Larsen , African-American novelist (d. 1964 )
1892 - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt , inventor of Radar (d. 1973 )
1892 - Arthur Travers 'Bomber' Harris , Royal Air Force commander in World War II (d. 1984 )
1894 - Arthur Fadden , thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973 )
1897 - Werner Voss , German World War I flying ace (d. 1917 )
1900 - Pierre Molinier , painter and photographer (d. 1976 )
1901 - Jacques Lacan , psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981 )
1902 - Philippe de Rothschild , race car driver and wine grower (d. 1988 )
1904 - Sir David Robinson , British philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 1987 )
1906 - Samuel Beckett , Irish writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature (d. 1989 )
1907 - Harold E. Stassen , frequent candidate for President of the United States (d. 2001 )
1909 - Eudora Welty , American writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1973 (d. 2001 )
1909 - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam , Polish-American mathematician (d. 1984 )
1911 - Ico Hitrec , Croatian football player (d.1946 )
1919 - Howard Keel , actor, singer, and president of the Screen Actors Guild )d. 2004 )
1919 - Roland Gaucher , French journalist
1920 - Roberto Calvi , banker (d. 1982 )
1920 - Liam Cosgrave , fifth Taoiseach of the Ireland
1920 - John LaPorta , jazz musician
1920 - Claude Cheysson , French politician
1922 - John Braine , British novelist (d. 1986 )
1923 - Don Adams , actor and comedian
1924 - Stanley Donen , director
1924 - Jack Chick , Christian evangelist
1926 - John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
1928 - Alan Clark , British politician (d. 1999 )
1931 - Dan Gurney , race car driver
1932 - Orlando Letelier , Chilean politician (d. 1976 )
1933 - Ben Nighthorse Campbell . U.S. Senator
1935 - Lyle Waggoner , actor
1937 - Lanford Wilson , playwright
1937 - Edward Fox , British actor
1939 - Paul Sorvino , actor
1939 - Seamus Heaney , poet
1943 - Bill Conti , musician
1944 - Jack Casady , musician (Jefferson Airplane )
1944 - Susan Davis , American politician
1945 - Bob Kalsu , American football player (d. 1970 )
1945 - Tony Dow , child actor
1946 - Al Green , singer and pastor
1948 - Sue Doughty , British politician
1949 - Frank Doran , Scottish Politician
1950 - Ron Perlman , actor
1950 - William Sadler . actor
1951 - Peabo Bryson , pop singer
1951 - Peter Davison , actor
1951 - Max Weinberg , drummer
1952 - David Drew , British politician
1952 - Ron Dittemore , NASA manager
1953 - Stephen Byers , British politician
1954 - Jimmy Destri , musician
1955 - Ole von Beust , mayor of Hamburg
1955 - Lupe Pintor , Mexican boxer
1956 - Alison Wheeler , British political activist
1956 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne , Australian race car driver (d. 2003 )
1960 - Rudi Völler , German football coach
1962 - Hillel Slovak , guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers ) (d. 1988 )
1963 - Garry Kasparov , chess grandmaster
1964 - Caroline Rhea , actress
1970 - Rick Schroder , actor
1972 - Mariusz Czerkawski , hockey player
1972 - Aaron Lewis , singer
1974 - Sergei Gonchar , hockey player
1975 - Lou Bega , musician and artist
1976 - Jonathan Brandis , actor (d. 2003 )
1976 - Patrik Elias , hockey player
1978 - Arron Asham , hockey player
1979 - Baron Davis , basketball player
1997 - Sloane Momsen , actress
Deaths
799 - Paul the Deacon , monk and chronicler (b. ca 720 )
814 - Krum , khan of Bulgaria
1093 - Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1093 )
1279 - Boleslaus the Pious , Polish duke
1605 - Boris Godunov , Tsar of Russia
1638 - Henri, duc de Rohan , French Huguenot leader (b. 1579 )
1695 - Jean de la Fontaine , French author (b. 1621 )
1722 - Charles Leslie , theologian (b. 1650 )
1794 - Nicolas Chamfort , French writer (b. 1741 )
1793 - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette , French revolutionary (b. 1763 )
1826 - Franz Danzi , German composer (b. 1763 )
1853 - James Iredell, Jr. , Governor of North Carolina 1b. 1788 )
1853 - Leopold Gmelin , German chemist (b. 1788 )
1855 - Henry De la Beche , English geologist (b. 1796 )
1868 - Tewodros II , Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818 )
1880 - Robert Fortune , Scottish botanist (b. 1813 )
1882 - Bruno Bauer , German theologian (b. 1809 )
1909 - Whitley Stokes , British lawyer (b. 1830 )
1910 - William Quiller Orchardson , British painter (b. 1835 )
1911 - George Washington Glick , Governor of Kansas (b. 1827 )
1911 - John McLane , Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1852 )
1912 - Ishikawa Takuboku , Japanese author (b. 1886 )
1925 - Elwood Haynes , automobile pioneer
1938 - Grey Owl , proponent of nature conservation (b. 1888 )
1941 - Annie Jump Cannon , American astronomer (b. 1863 )
1945 - Ernst Cassirer , German philosopher (b. 1874 )
1961 - Army Pfc. John A. Bennett (executed)
1962 - Culbert Olson , Governor of California (b. 1876 )
1966 - Abdul Salam Arif , President of Iraq (b. 1921 )
1975 - François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye , first president of Chad (b. 1918 )
1975 - Larry Parks , American actor (b. 1914 )
1978 - Jack Chambers , Canadian artist and film maker (b. 1931 )
1981 - Asaka Yasuhiko , member of the Japanese imperial family (b. 1887 )
1984 - Ralph Kirkpatrick , American musician (b. 1911 )
1984 - Richard Hurndall . British actor (b. 1910 )
1997 - Dorothy Frooks , American author, publisher, military figure, and actress (b. 1896 )
1999 - Willi Stoph , East Germany politician
2000 - Giorgio Bassani , Italian writer (b. 1916 )
2002 - Jon Gustafson , editor
2004 - Lou Berberet , baseball player (b. 1929 )
2004 - Caron Keating , British television presenter (b. 1962 )
2005 - Johnnie Johnson (b. 1924 ), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, piano player and blues musician
Holidays and Observances
External links
April 12 - April 14 - March 13 - May 13 -- listing of all days
