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
- 1111 –Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1204 –Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
- 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 (Edict repealed in 1685.)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.
- 1873 –The Colfax Massacre takes place.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1984 –India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control.
- 1992 –The Great Chicago Flood.
- 1997 –Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
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