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Events on the 13th of April in history

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13 Apr 0837 Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years
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13 Apr 0989 Battle at Abydos Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas
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13 Apr 1055 Bishop Gebhard van Eichst
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13 Apr 1111 Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
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13 Apr 1111 Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II
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13 Apr 1180 Republic day of Gelnhausen
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13 Apr 1204 Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
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13 Apr 1204 Crusaders occupy Constantinople
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13 Apr 1241 Battle at Theiss Mongols beat Hungarian King B
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13 Apr 1346 Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy
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13 Apr 1367 Battle at N
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13 Apr 1517 Osmaanse army occupies Cairo
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13 Apr 1556 Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope
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13 Apr 1598 Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
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13 Apr 1598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots
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13 Apr 1612 Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō at Funajima island.
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13 Apr 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.
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13 Apr 1640 English Short Parliament forms (- May 5)
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13 Apr 1668 John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate
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13 Apr 1699 Guru Gobind Singh, the Tenth Sikh Guru, Created Khalsa on this day at Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.
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13 Apr 1741 Dutch people protest bad quality of bread
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13 Apr 1741 Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich
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13 Apr 1742 George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
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13 Apr 1742 George Frideric H
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13 Apr 1759 French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen
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13 Apr 1777 American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
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13 Apr 1796 1st elephant arrives in US from Bengal India
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13 Apr 1796 Battle at Millesimo Italy Napoleon beats Austrians
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13 Apr 1808 William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects tap dance
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13 Apr 1808 William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects the tap dance
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13 Apr 1829 The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.
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13 Apr 1829 English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics
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13 Apr 1834 HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia
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13 Apr 1842 Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope
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13 Apr 1849 Hungary becomes a republic.
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13 Apr 1849 Hungarian Republic proclaimed
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13 Apr 1860 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California
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13 Apr 1861 American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
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13 Apr 1861 After 34 hours of bombardment, Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates
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13 Apr 1863 Battle of Irish Bend LA (Fort Bisland)
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13 Apr 1863 Hospital for Ruptured & Crippled in New York is 1st orthopedic hospital
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13 Apr 1865 Battle of Raleigh, North Carolina
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13 Apr 1865 American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces.
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13 Apr 1865 Battle of Raleigh NC
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13 Apr 1869 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
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13 Apr 1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in New York City
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13 Apr 1870 The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
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13 Apr 1873 Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed)
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13 Apr 1873 The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place.
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13 Apr 1882 Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia
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13 Apr 1883 Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism
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13 Apr 1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist" (BG)
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13 Apr 1902 James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
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13 Apr 1904 Congress authorizes Lewis & Clark Expo $1 gold coin
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13 Apr 1904 Battle at Oviumbo Africa Herero's chase away German army
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13 Apr 1906 Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos & Vasco da Gama
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13 Apr 1908 Groundbreaking on Philadelphia's Shibe Park (home of A's & Phillies)
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13 Apr 1909 The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
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13 Apr 1911 Polo Grounds grandstand & left field bleachers go up in flames
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13 Apr 1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)
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13 Apr 1914 1st Federal League Game Baltimore Terrapins beat Buffalo 3-2
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13 Apr 1918 Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital
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13 Apr 1919 British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre)
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13 Apr 1919 Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
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13 Apr 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India; at least 1200 are wounded.
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13 Apr 1919 The establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
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13 Apr 1919 Amritsar Massacre - British Army fires on hundreds of Indian Nationalist rioters in India
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13 Apr 1920 1st woman US Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed
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13 Apr 1923 Army wins the 1st college three-weapon fencing championship
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13 Apr 1924 Greek plebiscite for a republic
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13 Apr 1925 Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St, New York City
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13 Apr 1926 At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout
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13 Apr 1926 Bicyclists without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam
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13 Apr 1927 Stanley Cup Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, in 2 games & 2 ties
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13 Apr 1928 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-US (Fitzmaurice-von H
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13 Apr 1932 Kozakken Boys soccer team forms in Werkendam forms
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13 Apr 1933 1st flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale)
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13 Apr 1934 4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments
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13 Apr 1934 US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act
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13 Apr 1936 Metaxas proclaims himself dictator of Greece
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13 Apr 1938 Clifford Goldsmith' "What a Life", premieres in NYC
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13 Apr 1939 W Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands", premieres in NYC
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13 Apr 1940 Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft
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13 Apr 1940 Cornelious Warmerdam becomes the 1st man to pole vault 15 feet, Berkeley CA
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13 Apr 1940 2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed
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13 Apr 1940 Stanley Cup New York Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 2
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13 Apr 1941 A Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
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13 Apr 1941 Heavy German assault on Tobruk
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13 Apr 1941 Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect
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13 Apr 1943 The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
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13 Apr 1943 World 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 from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
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13 Apr 1943 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
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13 Apr 1943 Catholic University Nijegen closes
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13 Apr 1943 Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn
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13 Apr 1944 SC rejects black suffrage
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13 Apr 1944 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games
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13 Apr 1944 Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
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13 Apr 1944 South Carolina rejects black suffrage
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13 Apr 1944 Stanley Cup Montr
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13 Apr 1944 Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
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13 Apr 1945 Canadian army liberates Teuge and Assen (Netherlands) from Nazis
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13 Apr 1945 Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna)
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13 Apr 1945 World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria.
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13 Apr 1945 World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
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13 Apr 1945 Allies occupy Wien (Vienna)
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13 Apr 1945 US marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa
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13 Apr 1946 Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage & price freeze over
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13 Apr 1946 Eddie Klepp, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champion Cleveland Buckeyes, is barred from field in Birmingham AL
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13 Apr 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.
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13 Apr 1948 75 scientists ambushed on way to Mount Scopus
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13 Apr 1949 Minneapolis beats Washington, 4 games to 2, for the NBA championship
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13 Apr 1949 3rd NBA Championship Minneapolis Lakers beat Washington Capitals, 4 games to 2
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13 Apr 1953 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
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13 Apr 1953 1st game of Milwaukee Braves, they beat Cincinnati Reds 2-0
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13 Apr 1954 Baltimore Orioles 1st game, lose to Tigers in Detroit 3-0
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13 Apr 1954 Milwaukee Braves' Hank Aaron's 1st game
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13 Apr 1954 Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist
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13 Apr 1955 20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record)
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13 Apr 1956 KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City OK (PBS) begins broadcasting
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13 Apr 1957 "Shinbone Alley" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances
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13 Apr 1957 Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in the US is temporarily halted
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13 Apr 1957 11th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3
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13 Apr 1957 11th Tony Awards Long Days Journey into the Night & My Fair Lady win
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13 Apr 1958 Cold War: American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
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13 Apr 1958 12th Tony Awards Sunrise at Campobello & Music Man win
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13 Apr 1959 Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
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13 Apr 1959 Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics from voting for communists
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13 Apr 1959 USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit
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13 Apr 1960 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
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13 Apr 1960 France becomes the 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara
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13 Apr 1960 Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit
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13 Apr 1961 "Carnival!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 719 performances
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13 Apr 1961 UN General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid
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13 Apr 1962 Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new National League record
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13 Apr 1962 US steel industry forced to give up price increases
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13 Apr 1963 Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit
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13 Apr 1963 Pittsburgh Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game
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13 Apr 1964 36th Academy Awards - "Tom Jones, " Sidney Poitier and Patricia Neal win
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13 Apr 1964 At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
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13 Apr 1964 New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day
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13 Apr 1964 Sidney Poitier becomes 1st black man to win Oscar for best actor
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13 Apr 1964 Ian D Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
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13 Apr 1965 Beatles record "Help"
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13 Apr 1965 Beatles record "Help"
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13 Apr 1965 Lawrence Bradford Jr (age 16), of NYC became 1st black congressional page
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13 Apr 1965 1st US Senate black page, Lawrence W Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by New York Senator Jacob Javits
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13 Apr 1966 Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s
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13 Apr 1969 33rd Golf Masters Championship George Archer wins, shooting a 281
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13 Apr 1970 An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
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13 Apr 1970 Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon
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13 Apr 1970 34th Golf Masters Championship Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279
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13 Apr 1970 Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis is freed
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13 Apr 1970 Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener; Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation
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13 Apr 1972 Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
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13 Apr 1972 The 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.
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13 Apr 1972 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days
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13 Apr 1974 Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
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13 Apr 1975 Penguins 5-Isles 4 - Quarterfinals - Penguins hold 1-0 lead
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13 Apr 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.
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13 Apr 1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 5-New York Islanders 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 1-0 lead
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13 Apr 1975 Chad military coup by General Odingar
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13 Apr 1975 Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
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13 Apr 1976 $2 bill re-introduced as US currency
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13 Apr 1976 The 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.
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13 Apr 1976 1st NBA playoff game for Cleveland Cavliers, they lose 100-95 to Washington
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13 Apr 1976 Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes
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13 Apr 1978 Jackson slugs a 3-run HR in the 1st inning, and the field is showered
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13 Apr 1978 New York Yanks defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day
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13 Apr 1978 New York Yankees defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day; Jackson slugs a 3-run homerun in the 1st inning, & the field is showered
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13 Apr 1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
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13 Apr 1979 Christian Turks occupy St Jansbasiliek
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13 Apr 1979 Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda
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13 Apr 1980 "Grease" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 3,388 performances
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13 Apr 1980 "Reggae" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 21 performances
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13 Apr 1980 US boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow
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13 Apr 1980 44th Golf Masters Championship Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275
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13 Apr 1980 Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
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13 Apr 1980 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
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13 Apr 1980 "TASS" denounced US boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics
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13 Apr 1981 Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart"
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13 Apr 1981 Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)
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13 Apr 1981 Washington Post's Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize for "Jimmy's World" (later admits story was a hoax and returns prize)
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13 Apr 1982 Penguins 3-Isles 4 (OT) - Preliminary-Isles win series (3-2)
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13 Apr 1982 Pittsburgh Penguins 3-New York Islanders 4 (OT)-Preliminary-Islanders win series (3-2)
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13 Apr 1983 Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault
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13 Apr 1983 Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago
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13 Apr 1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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13 Apr 1984 India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control.
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13 Apr 1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth
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13 Apr 1984 Pete Rose becomes 1st National League to get get 4,000 hits in a career
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13 Apr 1984 India beats Pakistan by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah
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13 Apr 1985 "TASS" denounced US boycott of Moscow Olympics
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13 Apr 1985 Caps 1-Isles 2 - Patrick Division Semifinals - Caps hold 2-1 lead
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13 Apr 1985 Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
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13 Apr 1985 Washington Capitals 1-New York Islanders 2-Patrick Division Semifinals- Capitals hold 2-1 lead
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13 Apr 1985 Katrin D
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13 Apr 1985 Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania
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13 Apr 1986 Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record
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13 Apr 1986 Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue
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13 Apr 1986 Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second
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13 Apr 1986 50th Golf Masters Championship Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279
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13 Apr 1986 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
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13 Apr 1987 1st 3 SD Padres hit HRs off SF starter Roger Mason
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13 Apr 1987 Portugal and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
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13 Apr 1987 1st 3 San Diego Padres hit homeruns off San Francisco starter Roger Mason
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13 Apr 1987 Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999)
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13 Apr 1988 Italy government of De Mita forms
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13 Apr 1989 "Welcome to the Club" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 12 performances
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13 Apr 1990 New York Rangers beat the New York Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1
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13 Apr 1990 4th largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando play at Minneapolis
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13 Apr 1990 Final episode of Pat Sajak's late night TV show on CBS
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13 Apr 1991 BPAA US Open by Pete Weber
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13 Apr 1992 "2 Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 160 performances
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13 Apr 1992 The Great Chicago flood devastates much of central Chicago.
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13 Apr 1992 American Airlines reduces its 1st-class fares 20%-50%
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13 Apr 1992 Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver & Dallas
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13 Apr 1992 Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood
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13 Apr 1992 Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St John's basketball team
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13 Apr 1992 5.5 earthquake hits Netherlands
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13 Apr 1992 Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (New York Yankees 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); Yankees score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2
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13 Apr 1992 Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie
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13 Apr 1993 "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 40 performances
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13 Apr 1993 14th Emmy Sports Award presentation
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13 Apr 1993 Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia", premieres in London
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13 Apr 1994 President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
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13 Apr 1994 Target date for Israeli complete withdrawal, doesn't occur
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13 Apr 1994 United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India
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13 Apr 1995 Yankees beat the Mets 2-0
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13 Apr 1996 En route to NHL record 62 victories Detroit Red Wings win #61
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13 Apr 1996 Ottawa Senators eliminate Stanley Cup champions New Jersey Devils from playoff
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13 Apr 1997 "American Daughter" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 88 performances
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13 Apr 1997 Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
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13 Apr 1997 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city - San Francisco Giants vs New York Mets & Oakland A's vs New York Yankees in New York
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13 Apr 1997 48th time opposing pitchers hit homeruns, Carlos Perez (Mon)/Darren Holmes
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13 Apr 1997 61st Golf Masters Championship Tiger Woods at 21 (270-18 under par)
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13 Apr 1997 Hartford Whalers last NHL game
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13 Apr 1997 NHL Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Lemieux's last NHL regular game
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13 Apr 1997 Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header
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13 Apr 2014 A bus traveling from Villahermosa to Mexico City crashes into a tractor-trailer and catches fire, killing at least 36 people.
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