About April 13

April 13, 2025 is the 103rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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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 310 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On April 13

  • 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.
  • 1796 –
    The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
  • 1829 –
    The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
  • 1849 –
    Hungary becomes a republic.
  • 1868 –
    The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
  • 1873 –
    The Colfax Massacre takes place.
  • 1909 –
    The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the deposal of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
  • 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 –
    Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India. At least 1200 wounded.
  • 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.
  • 1958 –
    During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
  • 1972 –
    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.
  • 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.
  • 1987 –
    Portugal and the People’s Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
  • 1992 –
    The Great Chicago Flood.

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