What are the important events that happened on April 13? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 13: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 13 is the 104th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 31, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,712,966,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatetragon’ day.
Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 291 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,131 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 13 Historical Events
- 1612 –Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro at Funajima island.
- 1613 –Samuel Argall kidnaps Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas in Virginia along the Potomac River.
- 1829 –The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
- 1943 –The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of 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, Austria.
- 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.
- 1974 –Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
- 1976 –The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson’s 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
- 1992 –The Great Chicago Flood.
Who were born on April 13?
- 1872 –Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer (d. 1945)
- 1873 –John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955)
- 1892 –Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1973)
- 1901 –Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981)
- 1911 –Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer (d. 1946)
- 1937 –Edward Fox, English actor
- 1939 –Paul Sorvino, American actor
- 1952 –Ron Dittemore, American space administrator
- 1971 –Dina Korzun, Russian actress
- 1981 –Courtney Peldon, American actress
Who died on April 13?
- 1941 –Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)
- 1942 –Anton Uesson, Estonian politician and engineer (b. 1879)
- 1942 –Henk Sneevliet, Dutch Communist (b. 1883)
- 1971 –Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
- 1975 –François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye, Chadian politician (b. 1918)
- 1984 –Dionyssis Papayannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
- 1999 –Willi Stoph, German politician (b. 1914)
- 2005 –Don Blasingame, American baseball player (b. 1932)
- 2007 –Don Selwyn, Māori actor and film director (b. c. 1936)
- 2009 –Bruce Snyder, American football coach (b. 1940)
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