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

  • 1111 –
    Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
  • 1256 –
    The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
  • 1612 –
    Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro at Funajima island.
  • 1613 –
    Samuel Argall kidnaps Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas in Virginia along the Potomac River.
  • 1796 –
    The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
  • 1829 –
    The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
  • 1861 –
    American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
  • 1873 –
    The Colfax Massacre takes place.
  • 1902 –
    James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
  • 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.
  • 1941 –
    Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
  • 1944 –
    Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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