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This day in history: 13 April

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Key facts

369 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 13 April.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2025: Rory McIlroy wins the Masters Tournament, becoming just the sixth person to complete the Grand Slam in golf.

Holidays and observances

April 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Caradoc

Christian feast day: Ida of Louvain

Christian feast day: Margaret of Castello

Christian feast day: Pope Martin I

Christian feast day: Sabás Reyes Salazar

Songkran Songkran (Thailand)

Songkran Water-Sprinkling Festival

Vaisakhi (between 1902 and 2011)

Events

2025Rory McIlroy wins the Masters Tournament, becoming just the sixth person to complete the Grand Slam in golf.

2024Six people and the perpetrator are killed and twelve others injured in a mass stabbing at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney, Australia.

2023The house of Jack Teixeira is raided in an investigation into leaked Pentagon documents; he is arrested on the same day.

2014Three people are killed in a shooting in Overland Park, Kansas.

2013Lion Air Flight 904 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Indonesia, injuring 40 people.

2013Salam Fayyad resigns as Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority following an ongoing dispute with President Mahmoud Abbas.

2009A fire destroys a homeless hostel and kills at least 22 people in Kamień Pomorski, Poland.

2006The United Front for Democratic Change's attack on the Chadian capital of N'Djamena is repelled by the Chadian army

1997Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.

1996Two women and four children are killed after an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.

1976Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion, the deadliest industrial accident in modern Finnish history.

1976The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.

1975Beirut bus massacre: A confrontation between Phalangist paramilitaries and PLO militia marks the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.

1972The 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.

1972Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.

1970At 10:08 PM EST an oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon.

1964At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American man to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

1960The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.

1953CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.

1948In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.

1945World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.

1945World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.

1943The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.

1943World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which

1941A pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.

1924A.E.K., a major Greek multi-sport club, is established in Athens by Greek refugees from Constantinople.

1919Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approximately 379–1,000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India. Approximately 1,500 are injured.

1909The 31 March Incident leads to the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

1873The Colfax massacre: More than 60 to 150 black men are murdered in Colfax, Louisiana, while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan.

1870The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

1865American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union forces.

1861American Civil War: Union forces surrender Fort Sumter to Confederate forces.

1849Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence in a closed session of the National Assembly.

1829The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.

1777American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.

1742George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world premiere in Dublin, Ireland.

1699The Sikh religion is formalised as the Khalsa – the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints – by Guru Gobind Singh in northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.

1613Samuel Argall, having captured Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia, sets off with her to Jamestown with the intention of exchanging her for English prisoners held by her father.

1612Samurai Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō in a duel at Funajima island.

1455Thirteen Years' War: the beginning of the Battle for Kneiphof.

Born on this day

2002Karl Hein, Estonian footballer

2001Neco Williams, Welsh footballer

2000Facundo Torres, Uruguayan footballer

2000Rasmus Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player

1999Alessandro Bastoni, Italian footballer

1999András Schäfer, Hungarian footballer

1997Kyle Walker-Peters, English footballer

1997Mateo Cassierra, Colombian footballer

1996Marko Grujić, Serbian footballer

1994Kahraba, Egyptian footballer

1993Darrun Hilliard, American basketball player

1993Melvin Gordon, American football player

1992Jordan Silk, Australian cricketer

1991Josh Gordon, American football player

1989Josh Reynolds, Australian rugby league player

1988Allison Williams, American actress and singer

1988Anderson, Brazilian footballer

1987Steven De Vuyst, Belgian politician

1986Lorenzo Cain, American baseball player

1984Anders Lindegaard, Danish footballer

1983Claudio Bravo, Chilean footballer

1983Hunter Pence, American baseball player

1982Nellie McKay, British-American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress

1982Ty Dolla Sign, American singer, songwriter, and musician

1980Kelli Giddish, American actress

1980Quentin Richardson, American basketball player

1979Baron Davis, American basketball player

1978Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer

1977Margus Tsahkna, Estonian lawyer and politician

1976Dan Campbell, American football player and coach

1976Glenn Howerton, American actor

1976Jonathan Brandis, American actor (died 2003)

1975Lou Bega, German singer

1973Bokeem Woodbine, American actor

1972Aaron Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1971Bo Outlaw, American basketball player

1971Danie Mellor, Australian painter and sculptor

1971Franck Esposito, French swimmer

1970Ricky Schroder, American actor

1967Dana Barros, American basketball player and coach

Died on this day

2026Dave McGinnis, American football player and coach (born 1951)

2026Moya Brennan, Irish singer-songwriter and harp player (born 1952)

2025Jean Marsh, English actress and screenwriter (born 1934)

2025Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)

2025Richard Armitage, American diplomat and government official (born 1945)

2024Faith Ringgold, American artist and author (born 1930)

2022Gloria Parker, American musician and bandleader (born 1921)

2022Michel Bouquet, French stage and film actor (born 1925)

2018Art Bell, American radio host (born 1945)

2017Dan Rooney, American football executive and former United States Ambassador to Ireland (born 1932)

2015Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist and author (born 1940)

2015Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, and illustrator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)

2015Herb Trimpe, American author and illustrator (born 1939)

2014Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian-Spanish philosopher and theorist (born 1935)

2014Michael Ruppert, American journalist and author (born 1951)

2013Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator (born 1924)

2012Cecil Chaudhry, Pakistani pilot, academic, and activist (born 1941)

2012Shūichi Higurashi, Japanese illustrator (born 1936)

2008John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and academic (born 1911)

2006Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, poet, and critic (born 1918)

2005Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and songwriter (born 1924)

2005Phillip Pavia, American painter and sculptor (born 1912)

2004Caron Keating, Northern Irish television host (born 1962)

2000Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player and manager (born 1910)

2000Giorgio Bassani, Italian author and poet (born 1916)

1999Ortvin Sarapu, Estonian-New Zealand chess player and author (born 1924)

1999Willi Stoph, German engineer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of East Germany (born 1914)

1998Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and base jumper (born 1960)

1997Alan Cooley, Australian public servant (born 1920)

1997Bryant Bowles, American soldier and white supremacist, founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People (born 1920)

Quote of the day

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

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