April 13

April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). There are 262 days remaining.

Events

• 1111 - Henry IV is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
• 1180 - Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter[?]
• 1598 - King Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots
• 1829 - The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics
• 1849 - Hungary becomes a republic
• 1861 - American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders
• 1883 - Alferd Packer[?] is convicted of cannibalism
• 1902 - James C. Penney[?] opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming
• 1919 - Amritsar massacre[?]: British and Gurkha troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar[?], India
• 1941 - Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed
• 1970 - Apollo 13's oxygen tank explodes
• 1990 The Soviet Union admits to the Katyn Massacre
• 1997 - Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament[?]

Births

• 1519 - Catherine de Medici, queen of France (+ 1589)
• 1570 - Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (+ 1606)
• 1743 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (+ 1826)
• 1856 - F.W. Woolworth[?], merchant/businessman, founder of Woolworth's (+ 1919)
• 1860 - James Ensor[?], painter (+ 1949)
• 1866 - Butch Cassidy, Wild West outlaw (+ 1908)
• 1872 - Alexander Roda Roda[?], writer (+ 1945)
• 1880 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood (+ 1955)
• 1887 - Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (+ 1995)
• 1906 - Samuel Beckett, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969 (+ 1989)
• 1907 - Harold E. Stassen[?], frequent candidate for President of the United States (+ 2001)
• 1909 - Eudora Welty, writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1973 (+ 2001)
• 1919 - Howard Keel, actor, singer, former president of the Screen Actors Guild
• 1923 - Don Adams, actor, comedian
• 1924 - Stanley Donen[?], director
• 1926 - John George Vanderbilt Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough[?]
• 1935 - Erich von Däniken, writer
• 1937 - Lanford Wilson, playwright
• 1939 - Paul Sorvino[?], actor
• 1944 - Jack Casady[?], musician ("Jefferson Airplane")
• 1946 - Al Green, soul singer, pastor
• 1950 - Ron Perlman[?], actor
• 1951 - Peabo Bryson[?], pop singer
• 1954 - Jimmy Destri[?], musician
• 1963 - Garry Kasparov, chess master
• 1970 - Rick Schroder, actor

Deaths

• 1695 - Jean de la Fontaine[?], folklorist
• 1925 - Elwood Haynes[?], automobile pioneer
• 2000 - Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis[?])
• 2002 - Damon Knight, science fiction author
• 2002 - Jon Gustafson[?], editor

Holidays and Observances

• First day of Thai New Year

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