About April 13

April 13, 2020 is the 104th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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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 305 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.
  • 1598 –
    Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.)
  • 1612 –
    Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro at Funajima island.
  • 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.
  • 1902 –
    James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
  • 1909 –
    The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the deposal of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
  • 1919 –
    The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
  • 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: 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.
  • 1970 –
    An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
  • 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.
  • 1997 –
    Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.

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