About April 13
April 13, 2023 is the 103rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 303 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 13
- 1598 –Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.)
- 1612 –Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro at Funajima island.
- 1613 –Samuel Argall kidnaps Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas in Virginia along the Potomac River.
- 1849 –Hungary becomes a republic.
- 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.
- 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: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.
- 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.
- 1960 –The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system.
- 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.
- 1984 –India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control.
- 1992 –The Great Chicago Flood.
- 1997 –Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
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