About April 13

April 13, 2021 is the 103rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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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 294 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.
  • 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 (Edict repealed in 1685.)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.
  • 1776 –
    American Revolutionary War: American forces are surprised in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
  • 1796 –
    The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
  • 1829 –
    The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
  • 1861 –
    American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
  • 1868 –
    The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
  • 1873 –
    The Colfax Massacre takes place.
  • 1902 –
    James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
  • 1919 –
    Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
  • 1941 –
    Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.
  • 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.
  • 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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