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

  • 1598 –
    Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.)
  • 1613 –
    Samuel Argall kidnaps Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas in Virginia along the Potomac River.
  • 1742 –
    George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
  • 1868 –
    The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
  • 1870 –
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art founded.
  • 1873 –
    The Colfax Massacre takes place.
  • 1919 –
    Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India. At least 1200 wounded.
  • 1941 –
    Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
  • 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.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.
  • 1948 –
    The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.
  • 1953 –
    CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
  • 1958 –
    During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
  • 1960 –
    The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system.
  • 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.
  • 1974 –
    Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
  • 1976 –
    The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson’s 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
  • 1984 –
    India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control.
  • 1987 –
    Portugal and the People’s Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.

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