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

  • 1111 –
    Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
  • 1598 –
    Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.)
  • 1742 –
    George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
  • 1796 –
    The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
  • 1849 –
    Hungary becomes a republic.
  • 1861 –
    American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
  • 1868 –
    The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1960 –
    The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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