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April 13 is the 103rd day of the year (104th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 262 days remain until the end of the year. Events Pre-1600 1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1455 – Thirteen Years' War: the beginning of the Battle for Kneiphof. 1601–1900 1612 – Samurai Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō in a duel at Funajima island. 1613 – Samuel 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. 1699 – The 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. 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. 1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament. 1849 – Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence in a closed session of the National Assembly. 1861 – American Civil War: Union forces surrender Fort Sumter to Confederate forces. 1865 – American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union forces. 1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded. 1873 – The 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. 1901–present 1909 – The 31 March Incident leads to the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. 1919 – Jallianwala 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; and approximately 1,500 injured. 1941 – A pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. 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 and 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. 1945 – World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna. 1948 – In 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. 1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra. 1958 – American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. 1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system. 1964 – At 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. 1970 – 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. 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. 1972 – Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins. 1975 – 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. 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. 1976 – Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland. 1996 – Two women and four children are killed after Israeli helicopter fired rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon. 1997 – Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament. 2017 – The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. 2023 – The house of Jack Teixeira was raided in an investigation into leaked Pentagon documents, where he was later arrested on the same day. 2024 – Six people and the perpetrator are killed and twelve others injured in a mass stabbing at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney, Australia. Births Pre-1600 1229 – Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1294) 1350 – Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (d. 1405) 1506 – Peter Faber, French priest and theologian, co-founded the Society of Jesus (d. 1546) 1519 – Catherine de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henry II of France (d. 1589) 1570 – Guy Fawkes, English soldier, member of the Gunpowder Plot (probable; d. 1606) 1573 – Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1625) 1593 – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1641) 1601–1900 1618 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French author (d. 1693) 1636 – Hendrik van Rheede, Dutch botanist (d. 1691) 1648 – Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717) 1713 – Pierre Jélyotte, French tenor (d. 1797) 1729 – Thomas Percy, Irish bishop and poet (d. 1811) 1732 – Frederick North, Lord North, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1792) 1735 – Isaac Low, American merchant and politician, founded the New York Chamber of Commerce (d. 1791) 1743 – Thomas Jefferson, American lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826) 1747 – Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793) 1764 – Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French general and politician, French Minister of War (d. 1830) 1769 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator (d. 1830) 1771 – Richard Trevithick, Cornish-English engineer and explorer (d. 1833) 1780 – Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse (d. 1868) 1784 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877) 1787 – John Robertson, American lawyer and politician (d. 1873) 1794 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (d. 1867) 1802 – Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and herpetologist (d. 1884) 1808 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (d. 1889) 1810 – Félicien David, French composer (d. 1876) 1824 – William Alexander, Irish archbishop, poet, and theologian (d. 1911) 1825 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868) 1828 – Josephine But.... 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