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.
  • 1256 –
    The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
  • 1829 –
    The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
  • 1849 –
    Hungary becomes a republic.
  • 1868 –
    The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
  • 1873 –
    The Colfax Massacre takes place.
  • 1909 –
    The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the deposal of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1958 –
    During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1992 –
    The Great Chicago Flood.
  • 1997 –
    Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.

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