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History on the 13th of April

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13 Apr 1059 RELIGIOUS Pope Nicholas II decreed that future popes could be elected by cardinals only.
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13 Apr 1598 RELIGIOUS The Edict of Nantes was promulgated by France's King Henry IV (of Navarre), granting his Huguenot (Protestant) subjects a large measure of religious freedom. (The Edict remained in effect for 87 years.)
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13 Apr 1853 RELIGIOUS Loyola College in Baltimore was chartered under Roman Catholic auspices.
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13 Apr 1912 WW2 King George V of the United Kingdom signed a Royal Warrant establishing the Royal Flying Corps. 
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13 Apr 1918 WW2 With mounting distrust of the Bolshevik authorities, delegates from the Czech Legion Units decided that no further arms should be handed over to the Reds. They also made plans to seize fuel and rolling stock along the railway if their movement to Vladivostok,Russia was further impeded. 
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13 Apr 1918 WW2 Submarine S-31 was laid down in San Francisco, California, United States. 
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13 Apr 1919 WW2 When Brigadier General Dyer had been sent with a force of Gurkhas to Amritsar, India, he was faced with an illegal assembly of several thousands who were being whipped up by agitators. Considering that his men were under threat and that the trouble should be nipped in the bud, he ordered his troops to open fire after warnings had been given to the crowd, resulting in 379 Indians being killed and many more injured. To placate Indian opinion Dyer was removed from his command, but there were many who considered that he had taken the correct course, and in a later libel action the judge ruled that it had been wrong to remove him. 
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13 Apr 1924 WW2 Captain Isoroku Yamamoto visited the United States as a member of the Japanese delegation. Among other places, he visited the United States Naval War College. 
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13 Apr 1933 WW2 The London Passenger Transport Board was established by the British Transport Minister Herbert Morrison (who would later be the Home Secretary during the Churchill premiership). 
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13 Apr 1935 WW2 The first through passenger air service between Brisbane, Australia, and London, England, United Kingdom was opened. QANTAS Empire Airways flew the initial stages and the cost of the 12.5 day journey was £195. 
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13 Apr 1936 WW2 Ioannis Metaxas was appointed the Prime Minister of Greece. 
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13 Apr 1938 WW2 Switzerland requested Germany not to issue passports to Austrian Jews, or to issue different passports (the later "'J' passports") to Austrian Jews so that they could be readily identified at the border and denied entry when necessary. 
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13 Apr 1938 WW2 Kaga launched 18 D1A2 bombers at 0830 hours, with 6 fighters in escort, to attack Tienhe airfield near Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China; Gladiator fighters of Chinese 28th Pursuit Squadron and 29th Pursuit Squadron intercepted the group, shooting down 2 A4N1 fighters and 2 D1A2 bombers; 4 Chinese fighters were also lost in combat. 
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13 Apr 1939 WW2 Cruiser Köln began training in the North Atlantic. 
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13 Apr 1939 WW2 Soviet ambassador Maxim Litvinov brought offers to London, England, United Kingdom and Paris, France seeking a military alliance between Britain, France, and the Soviet Union to counter potential German military aggression against Poland or Romania. 
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13 Apr 1939 RELIGIOUS Delegates from independent Baptist churches in Shafter, Oildale, Lamont and Taft organized the first association of Southern Baptists in California.
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13 Apr 1940 WW2 RAF Hampden bombers of No. 44, No. 49, No. 50, No. 61, and No. 144 Squadrons began laying magnetic mines in German coastal waters. 
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13 Apr 1940 WW2 Oswald Mosley's son Max Rufus Mosley was born. 
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13 Apr 1940 WW2 At Narvik, Norway, a British naval force consisted of battleship HMS Warspite and 9 destroyers under the command of Vice Admiral William Whitworth entered Ofotfjord; in the Second Battle of Narvik, Warspite's Swordfish torpedo bomber sank German submarine U-64 with bombs, while surface vessels sank 3 destroyers, with another 5 German ships scuttled by their own crews after suffering extensive damage; three British ships were damaged in the battle; without their ships, 2,600 German sailors went on land and served as infantrymen; Whitworth radioed London, noting that German forces at Narvik were now stranded, and a single brigade could defeat them. Meanwhile, off Trondheim, Norwegian cruiser-minelayer Frøya was damaged by German warships while defending the Agdenes fortress; German submarine U-34 scuttled Frøya to prevent salvage. 
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13 Apr 1941 WW2 Soviet Union and Japan signed a 5-year neutrality pact. In Moscow, Russia, German ambassador Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg reported that Joseph Stalin was unexpectedly friendly to both Japanese and German diplomats on this date. 
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13 Apr 1941 WW2 The German Leibstandarte SS Regiment attacked through the Metsovon Pass in an attempt to flank the Greek positions on the front with Albania. To prevent this, Greek General Papago ordered Greek troops in Albania to fall back, allowing Italian 11th Army to capture Korçë, Permet, and Porto Palermo in Albania. Further south, German aircraft attacked Piraeus, Greece, sinking Greek destroyer Psara and damaging destroyer Vasilevs Georgios I. 
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13 Apr 1941 WW2 Axis artillery bombarded Allied defensive positions at Tobruk, Libya at 1700 hours, and 30 minutes later German 5th Light Division, Italian Ariete Division, and Italian Trento Division commenced an attack. Australian troops repulsed the repeated attacks. Further east, German troops captured Fort Capuzzo near the Libyan-Egyptian border. 
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13 Apr 1941 WW2 German submarine U-108, having tracked and unsuccessfully attacked the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Rajputana for the past two days, sank her with a torpedo 100 miles west of Iceland at 0743 hours; 40 were killed, 283 were rescued by destroyer HMS Legion. 
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13 Apr 1941 WW2 German submarine U-124 sank British ship Corinthic 75 miles west of Sierra Leone, British West Africa at 2229 hours; 2 were killed, 39 survived. 
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13 Apr 1941 WW2 Alarmed by the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, US President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the US Navy to scale back operations in the Atlantic Ocean to avoid war with Germany, as naval resources might need to be diverted to the Pacific Ocean to counter this new threat. 
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13 Apr 1941 WW2 The two Swordfish aircraft squadrons of HMS Eagle which had been temporarily transferred to Port Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan three weeks prior returned to the carrier shortly after she had transited the Suez Canal. 
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13 Apr 1941 WW2 Paul von Kleist was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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13 Apr 1941 WW2 Luftwaffe aircraft conducted a raid on Malta. 
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13 Apr 1941 WW2 British battleship HMS King George V, light cruiser HMS Nigeria, and destroyers HMS Mashona, HMS Electra, and HMS Escapade departed Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom at 0107 hours in poor weather. 
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13 Apr 1941 WW2 The forty Manchester bombers on the strength of Nos. 207 and 97 Squadrons were grounded for engine modifications. During the work alterations were also made to allow the carriage of 4000-pound HC (high capacity) bombs; the first of which was dropped by a No. 207 Squadron aircraft on Berlin, Germany on the night of 8 to 9 May 1941. 
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13 Apr 1941 WW2 USS Astoria entered Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States for a refit. 
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13 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-123 sank US freighter Leslie 5 kilometers southeast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States at 0511 hours, killing 4 of 32 aboard. At 0745 hours, U-123 struck again, sinking Swedish ship Korsholm with her deck gun; 9 were killed, 17 survived. 400 miles south of Newfoundland, U-402 sank British ship Empire Progress at 2326 hours; 12 were killed, 38 survived. Just a short moment before midnight, just off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States, US destroyer USS Roper detected U-85 and proceeded to attack; U-85 dove quickly, leaving 29 men in the water. 
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13 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-154 sank British ship Empire Amethyst 40 miles south of Haiti at 0552 hours; all 47 aboard were killed. 
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13 Apr 1942 WW2 USS Grayling sank Japanese vessel Ryujin Maru 60 miles south of Japan at 2100 hours. 
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13 Apr 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Thrasher sank German freighter Atlas 82 miles southwest of Benghazi, Libya at 1012 hours; she was counterattacked with 19 depth charges but she was able to escape without damage. 
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13 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarines attacked Allied convoy QP-10 150 miles north of Norway; U-436 sank Russian merchant ship Kiev at 1300 hours (6 were killed, 62 survived), and U-435 sank Panamanian ship El Occidente at 1329 hours (20 were killed, 21 survived). 
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13 Apr 1942 WW2 Milton Miles arrived in Brazil. 
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13 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese troops continued to assault the Minhia-Taungdwingyi-Pyinmana defensive line along the Irrawaddy River in Burma without success. To the northwest, troops of Japanese 56th Infantry Division captured Mauchi from troops of Chinese 6th Army and the nearby tungsten mines. 
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13 Apr 1942 WW2 Philippe Pétain, under German pressure, decided to reinstate Pierre Laval whom the Germans favored. 
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13 Apr 1942 WW2 USS Lexington departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii to rendezvous with USS Yorktown for a raid on Rabaul. 
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13 Apr 1942 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: First commanding officer, Capt HF MacComsey USN, assumed command. 
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13 Apr 1942 WW2 US and Filipino prisoners of war began to be marched from Balanga for Orani in Bataan, Philippine Islands. To the south, Japanese artillery continued the bombardment of Corregidor island. 
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13 Apr 1942 WW2 USS Wasp took on British Spitfire fighters at Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom in preparation for an aircraft ferrying mission to Malta. 
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13 Apr 1942 WW2 German bombers attacked Portland and Weymouth, England, United Kingdom during the day, damaging a number of homes. After dark, German bombers attacked Grimsby on the eastern coast of England, lasting until the next date. 
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13 Apr 1943 WW2 A RAF pilot accidentally killed 25 spectators during a ground attack tactics demonstration flight in Imber, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. 
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13 Apr 1943 WW2 The first operational sortie of the new Republic P-47B Thunderbolt aircraft was undertaken by the US 8th Air Force based in the United Kingdom. US 8th Air Force would provide high altitude escorts and would engage in fighter sweeps. 
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13 Apr 1943 WW2 US bombers attacked Italian airfields at Castelvetrano and Trapani, Sicily, Italy, destroying 11 Italian and 8 German aircraft and damaging 16 Italian and 40 German aircraft, at the cost of only 2 B-17 bombers. 
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13 Apr 1943 WW2 Orde Wingate and his small group of Chindits crossed the Irrawaddy River in Burma by rafts built with locals' help. The final group of men were left behind on the east bank of the river as rearguard as the Japanese attack on this group intensified. 
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13 Apr 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze made a troop transport run to Cape Gloucester (Tuluvu), New Britain, Bismarck Islands, then departed New Britain for Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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13 Apr 1943 WW2 Cruiser Georges Leygues intercepted German blockade runner Portland in the Atlantic Ocean; Portland's crew scuttled the ship to prevent capture. 
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13 Apr 1943 WW2 Matome Ugaki, still recovering from dengue fever at Rabaul, New Britain, was given permission by the doctor to leave his bed. 
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13 Apr 1943 WW2 At Rabaul, New Britain, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto played a game of Shogi with Vice Admiral Ryunosuke Kusaka, discussing Pacific War strategy meanwhile. When Yamamoto spoke of his intention to personally inspect forward bases to raise morale, Rear Admiral Takatsugu Jojima and Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa protested but failed to dissuade Yamamoto. Yamamoto's lieutenants were particularly worried about the fact that Yamamoto's detailed travel itinerary were sent over radio. 
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13 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Finback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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13 Apr 1943 WW2 Mutsu arrived at Kure, Japan and took on a full load of ammunition and supplies destined for the Aleutian Islands, but that mission would soon to be canceled. 
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13 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish damaged a Japanese freighter off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan, hitting her with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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13 Apr 1943 WW2 Captain Katsuya Sato was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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13 Apr 1943 WW2 The Soviet GKO meeting at 2205 hours on this date was also joined by Soviet counterintelligence leaders Vsevolod Merkulov, Viktor Abakumov, Lavrentiy Tsanava, Nikolai Selivanovsky, Nikolai Korolev, Nikolai Khannikov, Isai Babich, Nikolai Mel'nikov, Filipp Golikov, and Aleksandr Shcherbakov. Most of them would leave at 2330 hours, leaving Joseph Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Georgy Malenkov to continue the discussion on reorganization of Soviet counterintelligence efforts. 
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13 Apr 1944 WW2 British Chindit units attacked the village of Sepein near Mawlu in Burma. 
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13 Apr 1944 WW2 Drancy Concentration Camp in France dispatched its 71st convoy with 1,500 Jews for Auschwitz Concentration Camp. 
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13 Apr 1944 WW2 Robert Johnson shot down two German Fw 190 aircraft over Kaiserslautern, Germany. 
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13 Apr 1944 WW2 Martial law was lifted in the US Territory of Hawaii. 
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13 Apr 1944 WW2 Italian motor torpedo boats claimed the sinking of an Allied corvette off Anzio, Italy; this sinking was not confirmed. 
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13 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Alabama departed Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. 
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13 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Harder was spotted by a Japanese aircraft north of the western Caroline Islands, and destroyer Ikazuchi sortied to attack. Harder sank Ikazuchi in return, hitting her with 2 of 4 torpedoes. 
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13 Apr 1944 WW2 Red Army units captured Eupatoria (Yevpatoriya), Feodosiya, and Simferol in Russia. Nearby, at Staryi Krym, German troops killed 589 people, about 200 of them children. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Chile declared war on Japan. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Troops of the US Ninth Army finished clearing the Duisberg Pocket in Germany. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 9 Japanese balloons were shot down over the western Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 The Soviet Danube Flotilla landed men of the 80th Guards Rifle Division and 7th Guards Airborne Division on both sides of the Reichsbrücke Bridge in Vienna, Ostmark, Germany, securing it. Later on the same day, Soviet troops secured the Essling district of Vienna while the Danube Flotilla delivered more men near Klosterneuburg 15 kilometers up the river. By the end of the day, German resistance in Vienna, broken up in several pockets, ceased to be effective. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment of the British 49th Division, attached to the Canadian Army, liberated Arnhem in the Netherlands, scene of the Market-Garden battle of the previous year. Attacking the town in flanking movement from the east across the River Ijssel rather than the Rhine, the fighting was no less bitter, but the Lincolns achieved their objective and took 234 prisoners at a cost of five men killed and 49 wounded. Elsewhere in the Netherlands, Allied troops captured Assen, Diepenveen, and Olst. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 German SS and Luftwaffe troops, while fleeing Allied advance with 1,016 political and military prisoners, deemed the prisoners too weak to continue marching. The prisoners were locked them inside a barn near Gardelegen, Saxony, Germany, which was then set afire, killing all of them. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sennet attacked a Japanese patrol boat south of Japan; the single torpedo missed. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Parche damaged a Japanaese fishing trawler and a small boat with her deck gun east of Kamaichi, Japan; as two Japanese aircraft closed in on a counterattack, Parche dove in a hurry, causing her ammunition to detonate, though causing little damage. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower rejected the notion, for the third time, to advance onto Berlin, Germany. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 A group of prominent prisoners of war were transferred out of the Oflag IV-C camp at Colditz Castle in Germany for the camp at Laufen in southern Germany on the orders of Heinrich Himmler. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Josias was arrested by Allied authorities. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 British 78th Infantry Division secured a bridgehead at Bastia in northern Italy, across the Santerno River. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Italian commandos infiltrated Ancona, Italy by sea, but they were all captured before they did any damage. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 More than 300 American B-29 bombers attacked various targets in and near Tokyo, Japan. The smaller of the two cyclotrons at the Riken Institute was destroyed. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Bergall fired two torpedoes at a Japanese patrol vessel in the South China Sea; both torpedoes missed. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Avenger aircraft from HMS Victorious attacked Matsuyama Arifield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan, damaging runways, and barracks; one ammunition dump or oil storage tank exploded. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Avenger aircraft from HMS Victorious, en route back to the carrier after attacking Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), strafed 12 aircraft on the ground at Giran Airfield in northeastern Taiwan; actual damage caused by the strafing was unknown. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 Avenger aircraft from HMS Victorious attacked Shinchiku Airfield in Taiwan, causing unknown damage to the runways. 
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13 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Wasp arrived at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, United States. 
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13 Apr 1948 RELIGIOUS At the Antioch Baptist Church of Portland, representatives of 15 local congregations organized the Baptist General Convention of Oregon-Washington, the first organization of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.
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