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

  • 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 (Edict repealed in 1685.)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.
  • 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.
  • 1919 –
    The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
  • 1944 –
    Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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