April 13 is the 103rd day of the year (104th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56). Friday the 13th, one of two in 2018. The next (and last) is July 13.
NATIONAL THOMAS JEFFERSON DAY
1111 – England's Henry V ("We few, we happy few, we band of brothers") is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
NATIONAL THOMAS JEFFERSON DAY
1111 – England's Henry V ("We few, we happy few, we band of brothers") is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1598 – Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
1598 – Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father. She is brought to Henricus as hostage.
1742 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
1861 – American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
1873 – The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place in Colfax, LA.
1902 – James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1919 – The Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India; at least 1200 are wounded.
1919 – American socialist union leader, Eugene V. Debs, is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
1943 – World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre (1940) is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
1945 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
1972 – Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
1975 – Bus massacre in Lebanon: An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
1992 – The Great Chicago flood devastates much of central Chicago, including the financial district.
2014 – A bus traveling from Villahermosa to Mexico City crashes into a tractor-trailer and catches fire, killing at least 36 people.
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
BORN TODAY
1683 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer and conductor (d. 1738)
1862 – William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer and academic (d. 1938)
1869 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor, designed the Nobel Peace Prize medal (d. 1943)
1913 – Oleg Cassini, French-American fashion designer (d. 2006)
1938 – Reatha King, American chemist and businesswoman
1683 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer and conductor (d. 1738)
1862 – William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer and academic (d. 1938)
1869 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor, designed the Nobel Peace Prize medal (d. 1943)
1913 – Oleg Cassini, French-American fashion designer (d. 2006)
1938 – Reatha King, American chemist and businesswoman
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