About April 13
April 13, 2024 is the 104th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 291 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 13
- 1204 –Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
- 1256 –The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
- 1612 –Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro at Funajima island.
- 1742 –George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: American forces are surprised in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
- 1849 –Hungary becomes a republic.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
- 1870 –The Metropolitan Museum of Art founded.
- 1919 –Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
- 1919 –The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
- 1943 –The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth.
- 1943 –World 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.
- 1944 –Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
- 1945 –World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria.
- 1953 –CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
- 1960 –The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system.
- 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.
- 1972 –Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
- 1974 –Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
- 1975 –Bus 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.
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