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Birthday April 13, 1721 John Hanson, 1st US President under the Articles of Confederation |
Birthday April 13, 1743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President (1801-1809) |
Birthday April 13, 1743 Thomas Jefferson is born |
Birthday April 13, 1852 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king. |
Birthday April 13, 1866 Butch Cassidy is born |
Birthday April 13, 1909 Eudora Welty is born |
History April 13, 1360 Hail kills English troops |
History April 13, 1742 Handel's Messiah premieres in Dublin |
History April 13, 1777 British attack at Bound Brook, New Jersey |
History April 13, 1861 Fort Sumter surrenders |
History April 13, 1918 Germans capture Helsinki, Finland |
History April 13, 1919 The Amritsar Massacre |
History April 13, 1939 USS Astoria attempts pre-war reconnaissance |
History April 13, 1941 Japan and USSR sign nonaggression pact |
History April 13, 1945 Hitler bluffs from bunker as Russians advance and atrocities continue |
History April 13, 1964 Sidney Poitier wins Best Actor Oscar for Lilies of the Field |
History April 13, 1966 SCLC passes resolution about South Vietnam |
History April 13, 1970 Apollo 13 oxygen tank explodes |
History April 13, 1972 North Vietnamese launch major attack on An Loc |
History April 13, 1976 2 dollar bill re-introduced as United States currency. |
History April 13, 1984 Mass murderer Wilder commits suicide |
History April 13, 1990 Soviets admit to Katyn Massacre |
History April 13, 1997 Tiger Woods wins his first Masters |
History April 13, 2009 Baseball All-Star killed in truck accident |