April 13th Events |
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| April 13th, 2006 (April 13 2006) | Event | Powerful tornadoes rip through Iowa City, Iowa. | |
| April 13th, 2002 (April 13 2002) | Event | Pedro Carmona, interim president of Venezuela, resigns one day after taking office. | |
| April 13th, 1997 (April 13 1997) | Event | Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win golf s Masters Tournament. | |
| April 13th, 1992 (April 13 1992) | Event | The Great Chicago Flood happened on this day. | |
| April 13th, 1992 (April 13 1992) | Event | Neil Kinnock resigns as British Labour leader following the party s defeat by the Conservatives in the general election four days earlier. | |
| April 13th, 1987 (April 13 1987) | Event | Portugal and the People s Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999. | |
| April 13th, 1985 (April 13 1985) | Event | Enver Hoxha is succeeded by Ramiz Alia as the leader of Albania. | |
| April 13th, 1984 (April 13 1984) | Event | India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexes more territory from the Line of Control. The challenger Shuttle lands after retrieving, repairing and redeploying a satellite. | |
| April 13th, 1983 (April 13 1983) | Event | Harold Washington is elected as the first African-American mayor in Chicago s history. | |
| April 13th, 1979 (April 13 1979) | Event | Tanzania and Zambia recognize Yusufu Lule as President of Uganda. | |
| April 13th, 1975 (April 13 1975) | Event | Bus Massacre in Lebanon : Attack by Phalangist militia gunmen kill 27 Palestinian civilians and marks the start of the 15-year Lebanese civil war. | |
| April 13th, 1974 (April 13 1974) | Event | Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the U.S. s first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1. | |
| April 13th, 1972 (April 13 1972) | Event | 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. | |
| April 13th, 1970 (April 13 1970) | Event | An 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. | |
| April 13th, 1969 (April 13 1969) | Event | Closure of the Brisbane tramway network. | |
| April 13th, 1958 (April 13 1958) | Event | Van Cliburn is the first American to win the Chaikovsky Compettion in Moscow. | |
| April 13th, 1953 (April 13 1953) | Event | CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA. | |
| April 13th, 1948 (April 13 1948) | Event | Seventy-seven doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital are ambushed and massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem. | |
| April 13th, 1945 (April 13 1945) | Event | German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany. | |
| April 13th, 1944 (April 13 1944) | Event | The diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established. | |
| April 13th, 1943 (April 13 1943) | Event | World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyn Forest Massacre is announced, alienating the Western Allies, the Polish government in exile in London, from the Soviet Union. | |
| April 13th, 1943 (April 13 1943) | Event | James Boarman, Fred Hunter, Harold Brest and Floyd G. Hamilton take part in an Alcatraz escape attempt. | |
| April 13th, 1943 (April 13 1943) | Event | The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson s birth. | Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| April 13th, 1941 (April 13 1941) | Event | Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. | |
| April 13th, 1939 (April 13 1939) | Event | In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British. | |
| April 13th, 1921 (April 13 1921) | Event | Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers Party. | |
| April 13th, 1919 (April 13 1919) | Event | The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. | |
| April 13th, 1919 (April 13 1919) | Event | Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India. At least 1200 wounded. | |
| April 13th, 1902 (April 13 1902) | Event | James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. | |
| April 13th, 1873 (April 13 1873) | Event | The Colfax Massacre takes place. | |
| April 13th, 1870 (April 13 1870) | Event | Metropolitan Museum of Art founded. | |
| April 13th, 1868 (April 13 1868) | Event | Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala. | |
| April 13th, 1861 (April 13 1861) | Event | American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces. | |
| April 13th, 1849 (April 13 1849) | Event | Hungary becomes a republic. | |
| April 13th, 1829 (April 13 1829) | Event | The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics. | |
| April 13th, 1796 (April 13 1796) | Event | The first elephant ever seen in the USA arrives from India. | |
| April 13th, 1742 (April 13 1742) | Event | George Frideric Handel s oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland. | George Frideric Handel Quotes |
| April 13th, 1598 (April 13 1598) | Event | Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.) | |
| April 13th, 1256 (April 13 1256) | Event | The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. | Alexander Pope Quotes |
| April 13th, 1250 (April 13 1250) | Event | The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured. | Louis IX of France Quotes |
| April 13th, 1204 (April 13 1204) | Event | The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople. | |
| April 13th, 1111 (April 13 1111) | Event | Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. | |
