April 13 holidays in 2019

Historical Events on April 13

• 1861: During the American Civil War, Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate troops on this day.
• 1865: Union troops occupy Raleigh, North Carolina during the American Civil War.
• 1870: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is established.
• 1873: More than sixty African-Americans are murdered during the Colfax Massacre.
• 1902: C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
• 1919: During the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, almost 400 unarmed demonstrators are gunned down by British troops and another twelve hundred are wounded.
• 1919: Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta on charges of sedition for speaking out against the President of the U.S and World War I.
• 1941: The USSR and Japan sign a Pact of Neutrality.
• 1943: The discovery of mass graves at the Katyn Forest Massacre is announced.
• 1943: On the 200^th anniversary of U.S President Thomas Jefferson’s birth, the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C is dedicated.
• 1945: During WWII, more than a thousand military and political prisoners are killed by the Germans in Gardelegen, Germany.
• 1945: Bulgarian and Soviet troops capture the city of Vienna in Austria.
• 1972: The Battle of An Loc erupts during the Vietnam War.
• 1974: In cooperation with Hughes Aircraft and NASA, Western Union launches the largest U.S commercial geosynchronous communication satellite. It’s called Westar 1.
• 1976: The 2-dollar bill is reintroduced by the U.S Treasury Department on Thomas Jefferson’s 233^rd
• 1997: Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
• 2017: The US drops the largest ever nonnuclear bomb on Nangarhar, Afghanistan.

Famous Birthdays on April 13

• American lawyer, politician and 3^rdS President, Thomas Jefferson is born in 1743.
• American lawyer and politician, John Robertson is born in 1787.
• Irish archbishop and poet, William Alexander is born in 1824.
• Irish novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize laureate, Samuel Beckett is born in 1906.
• American novelist and short story writer, Eudora Welty is born in 1909.
• American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate, Michael Stuart Brown is born in 1941.
• American actor Tony Dow is born in 1945.
• Australian actress and author, Judy Nunn is born in 1945.
• American poet Rae Armantrout is born in 1947.