About April 13
April 13, 2024 is the 104th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 291 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.
- 1613 –Samuel Argall kidnaps Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas in Virginia along the Potomac River.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: American forces are surprised in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
- 1868 –The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
- 1870 –The Metropolitan Museum of Art founded.
- 1902 –James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
- 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.
- 1944 –Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
- 1945 –World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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