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
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: American forces are surprised in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
- 1849 –Hungary becomes a republic.
- 1870 –The Metropolitan Museum of Art founded.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 –Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
- 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.
- 1958 –During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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