# What happened on April 13 in history?

**Date:** April 13  
**Events recorded:** 45  
**Years spanned:** 989 – 2025  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/april/13/

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## Featured Event

**2014** — Three people are killed in a shooting in Overland Park, Kansas.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Overland_Park_shootings)

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## Events on this date

- **989** — The death of Bardas Phokas the Younger in the battle of Abydos ends his second rebellion against Byzantine Emperor Basil II. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardas_Phokas_the_Younger))
- **1055** — Election of Pope Victor II following the death of Pope Leo IX in the previous year. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Victor_II))
- **1111** — Henry V, King of Germany, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by pope Paschal II. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor))
- **1175** — Saladin routs his Muslim opponents, the Zengids, in the battle of the Horns of Hama, consolidating his control over Syria except for Aleppo. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saladin))
- **1204** — Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople))
- **1455** — Thirteen Years' War: the beginning of the Battle for Kneiphof. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Years'_War_(1454%E2%80%931466)))
- **1612** — Samurai Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō in a duel at Funajima island. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Argall))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhs))
- **1742** — George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world premiere in Dublin, Ireland. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel))
- **1777** — American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War))
- **1829** — The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Relief_Act_1829))
- **1849** — Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence in a closed session of the National Assembly. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Kossuth))
- **1861** — American Civil War: Union forces surrender Fort Sumter to Confederate forces. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War))
- **1865** — American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union forces. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh%2C_North_Carolina))
- **1870** — The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_massacre))
- **1909** — The 31 March Incident leads to the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31_March_incident))
- **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. Approximately 1,500 are injured. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre))
- **1924** — A.E.K., a major Greek multi-sport club, is established in Athens by Greek refugees from Constantinople. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.E.K._(sports_club)))
- **1941** — A pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_Neutrality_Pact))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1943** — The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Memorial))
- **1945** — World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany))
- **1945** — World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadassah_Medical_Center))
- **1953** — CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency))
- **1960** — The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_(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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Academy_Awards))
- **1970** — At 10:08 PM EST 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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union))
- **1972** — Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War))
- **1975** — Beirut bus massacre: A confrontation between Phalangist paramilitaries and PLO militia marks the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Beirut_bus_massacre))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury))
- **1976** — Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion, the deadliest industrial accident in modern Finnish history. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapua_Cartridge_Factory_explosion))
- **1996** — Two women and four children are killed after an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansouri_attack))
- **1997** — Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods))
- **2006** — The United Front for Democratic Change's attack on the Chadian capital of N'Djamena is repelled by the Chadian army ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Front_for_Democratic_Change))
- **2009** — A fire destroys a homeless hostel and kills at least 22 people in Kamień Pomorski, Poland. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamie%C5%84_Pomorski_homeless_hostel_fire))
- **2013** — Salam Fayyad resigns as Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority following an ongoing dispute with President Mahmoud Abbas. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Fayyad))
- **2013** — Lion Air Flight 904 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Indonesia, injuring 40 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air_Flight_904))
- **2014** — Three people are killed in a shooting in Overland Park, Kansas. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Overland_Park_shootings))
- **2023** — The house of Jack Teixeira is raided in an investigation into leaked Pentagon documents; he is arrested on the same day. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Teixeira))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondi_Junction_stabbings))
- **2025** — Rory McIlroy wins the Masters Tournament, becoming just the sixth person to complete the Grand Slam in golf. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_McIlroy))

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## Notable births on April 13

- **2002** — **Karl Hein** — Estonian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Hein_(footballer)))
- **2001** — **Neco Williams** — Welsh footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neco_Williams))
- **2000** — **Rasmus Dahlin** — Swedish ice hockey player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Dahlin))
- **2000** — **Facundo Torres** — Uruguayan footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facundo_Torres))
- **1999** — **Alessandro Bastoni** — Italian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Bastoni))
- **1999** — **András Schäfer** — Hungarian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A1s_Sch%C3%A4fer))
- **1997** — **Mateo Cassierra** — Colombian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateo_Cassierra))
- **1997** — **Kyle Walker-Peters** — English footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Walker-Peters))
- **1996** — **Marko Grujić** — Serbian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_Gruji%C4%87))
- **1994** — **Kahraba** — Egyptian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahraba_(footballer)))

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## Notable deaths on April 13

- **2026** — **Moya Brennan** — Irish singer-songwriter and harp player (born 1952) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moya_Brennan))
- **2026** — **Dave McGinnis** — American football player and coach (born 1951) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_McGinnis))
- **2025** — **Richard Armitage** — American diplomat and government official (born 1945) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage_(government_official)))
- **2025** — **Mario Vargas Llosa** — Peruvian novelist and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Vargas_Llosa))
- **2025** — **Jean Marsh** — English actress and screenwriter (born 1934) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Marsh))
- **2024** — **Faith Ringgold** — American artist and author (born 1930) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Ringgold))
- **2022** — **Michel Bouquet** — French stage and film actor (born 1925) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Bouquet))
- **2022** — **Gloria Parker** — American musician and bandleader (born 1921) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Parker))
- **2018** — **Art Bell** — American radio host (born 1945) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell))
- **2017** — **Dan Rooney** — American football executive and former United States Ambassador to Ireland (born 1932) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_M._Rooney))

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