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On This Day, April 13

  • 2025: Rory McIlroy wins the Masters Tournament, becoming just the sixth person to complete the Grand Slam in golf.
  • 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.
  • 2023: The house of Jack Teixeira is raided in an investigation into leaked Pentagon documents; he is arrested on the same day.
  • 2014: Three people are killed in a shooting in Overland Park, Kansas.
  • 2013: Salam Fayyad resigns as Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority following an ongoing dispute with the President Mahmoud Abbas.

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