On this day in History - Apr. 13

• 0585 - Saint Hermenegild dies.
• 0799 - Paul the Deacon dies (b. ca 720). Monk and chronicler.
• 0814 - Krum dies. Khan of Bulgaria.
• 1055 - Bishop Gebhard van Eichstatt is consecrated Pope Victor II.
• 1059 - O Papa Nicolau II lança um decreto sobre a eleição dos papas, declarando que apenas cardeais devem ter poder de elegê-los.
• 1093 - Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev dies (b. 1093).
• 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1180 - Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter.
• 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
• 1241 - Battle at Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King Bela IV.
• 1250 - The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured.
• 1256 - The Grand Union of the Augustinian order when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
• 1279 - Boleslaus the Pious dies. Polish duke.
• 1498 - Vasco da Gama chega a Melinde.
• 1499 - Bula por la que el papa Alejandro VI autoriza al Cardenal Cisneros la creación de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.
• 1506 - Peter Faber was born (d. 1546). French Jesuit theologian.
• 1516 - D. Isabel, Queen of Portugal (wife of King D. Dinis) is beatified by Pope Leon X.
• 1519 - Catherine de Medici was born in Florence (d. 1589). Queen of France (1547-1559).
• 1547 - Elisabeth of Valois was born (d. 1568). Third wife of Philip II of Spain.
• 1556 - Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope.
• 1570 - Guy Fawkes was born (d. 1606). English catholic conspirator (Gunpowder Plot).
• 1573 - Christina of Holstein-Gottorp was born (d. 1625). Queen consort of Sweden.
• 1584 - Albert VI of Bavaria was born (d. 1666).
• 1593 - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford was born (d. 1641). English statesman.
• 1598 - King Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
• 1605 - Boris Godunov dies. Tsar of Russia.
• 1612 – Sasaki Kojirō dies. Japanese samurai.
• 1618 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy was born (d. 1693). French writer.
• 1625 - The word "microscope" was coined as a suggested term in a letter written by Johannes Faber of Bamberg, Germany, to Federigo Cesi, Duke of Aquasparata and founder of Italy's Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of the Lynx).
• 1635 - Fahkr-al-Din II dies executed. Druze Prince of Lebanon.
• 1638 - Henri, duc de Rohan dies (b. 1579). French Huguenot leader.
• 1641 - Richard Montagu dies (b. 1577). English clergyman.
• 1648 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon was born (d. 1717). French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism.
• 1695 - Jean de la Fontaine dies (b. 1621). French author.
• 1713 - Frederick (Lord) North was born (d. 1792). George III's sixth prime minister.
• 1715 - John Hanson was born (d. 1783). President of the United States in Congress Assembled.
• 1722 - Charles Leslie dies (b. 1650). Irish Anglican theologian.
• 1728 - Paolo Frisi was born (d. 22 Nov. 1784). Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who is best known for his work in hydraulics (he designed a canal between Milan and Pavia).
• 1728 - Samuel Molineux dies (b. 18 Jul 1689). British astronomer (Royal Observatory at Kew) and politician.
• 1729 - Thomas Percy was born (d.1811). Bishop of Dromore and magazine editor.
• 1732 - Frederick North was born (d. 1792). British politician.
• 1735 - Isaac Low was born (d. 1791). New York delegate to the Continental Congress.
• 1742 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
• 1743 - Thomas Jefferson was born (d. 1826). 3rd President of the United States.
• 1747 - Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans was born (d. 1793).
• 1748 - Joseph Bramah was born (d. 9 Dec. 1814). English engineer and inventor whose lock manufacturing shop was the cradle of the British machine-tool industry.
• 1764 - Giacomo Guardi was born (d. 03 Nov 1835). Italian artist.
• 1764 - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr was born (d. 1830). French marshal.
• 1769 - Thomas Lawrence was born (d. 07 Jan 1830). English painter.
• 1771 - Richard Trevithick was born (d. 1833). Mechanical engineer and developer of the first locomotive.
• 1772 - Eli Terry was born (d. 26 Feb 1852). American clockmaker who was an innovator in mass production.
• 1774 - Goethe's Götz premieres - The five-act drama "Götz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand" premiered in Berlin.
• 1780 - Alexander Mitchell was born (d. 1868). Irish engineer.
• 1784 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel was born (d. 1877). Prussian field marshal.
• 1787 - John Robertson was born (d. 1873). U.S. congressman.
• 1793 - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette dies (b. 1763). French revolutionary.
• 1794 - Nicolas Chamfort dies (b. 1741). French writer.
• 1796 – The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
• 1800 - Ludwig Hess dies (b. 16 Oct 1760). Swiss artist.
• 1802 - Leopold Fitzinger was born (d. 1884). Austrian zoologist.
• 1806 - Jean-Jacques Bachelier dies (b. 1724). French painter, writer and administrator.
• 1808 - Antonio Meucci was born (d. 1896). Italian inventor.
• 1812 - Reverend Abraham Pether dies (b. 1576). British landscape painter.
• 1816 - William Sterndale Bennett was born. English composer.
• 1824 - William Holbrook Beard was born (d. 20 Feb 1900). US painter specialized in Animals.
• 1825 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee was born (d. 1868). Canadian journalist and politician.
• 1826 - Franz Danzi dies (b. 1763). German composer.
• 1828 - Joseph Barber Lightfoot was born (d. 1889). English theol)ogian and Bishop of Durham.
• 1829 - The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
• 1830 - Sir Thomas Lawrence was born in Bristol, England. One of the foremost English portrait painters of his days.
• 1832 - Juan Montalvo was born (d. 1889). Ecuadoran author.
• 1841 - Louis-Ernest Barrias was born (d. 1905). French sculptor.
• 1846 - Teatro Nacional D. Maria II is inaugurated in Lisbon (Portugal).
• 1847 - Eduardo Sivori was born in Buenos Aires. Argentine painter.
• 1848 - A Sicília declara-se independente de Nápoles.
• 1849 - Hungary becomes a republic.
• 1850 - Arthur Matthew Weld Downing was born (d. 1917). British astronomer.
• 1851 - Robert Abbe was born (d. 1928). American surgeon.
• 1852 - F. W. Woolworth was born (d. 1919). American merchant/businessman, founder of Woolworth's.
• 1853 - James Iredell, Jr. dies (b. 1788). Governor of North Carolina.
• 1853 - Leopold Gmelin dies (b. 1788). German chemist.
• 1855 - Henry De la Beche dies (b. 1796). English geologist.
• 1855 - La antigua iglesia de Ayerbe, Nuestra Señora del Remedio, se inauguró como parroquia de San Pedro.
• 1855 - Henry De la Beche dies (b. 1796). English geologist.
• 1858 - Carl Georg Adolph Hasenpflug dies (b. 03 Sep 1802). German artist.
• 1860 - James Ensor was born (d. 19 Nov 1949). Belgian Expressionist painter.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
• 1866 - Butch Cassidy was born (d. 1908). American Wild West outlaw.
• 1868 - The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
• 1868 - Tewodros II dies (b. 1818). Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1869 - Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse).
• 1870 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art founded.
• 1870 - Augustin Alexandre Thierrat dies (b. 10 Mar 1789). French artist.
• 1872 - Alexander Roda Roda was born (d.1945). Austrian writer.
• 1873 – The Colfax Massacre takes place.
• 1873 - John W. Davis was born (d. 1955). American politician.
• 1874 - James Bogardus was born (14 Mar. 1800). American inventor and builder who popularized cast-iron construction, which was commonly used in American industrial and commercial building from 1850-80.
• 1875 - Ray Lyman Wilbur was born (d. 1949). 31st United States Secretary of the Interior.
• 1878 - Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt was born (d. 1955). Swedish US artist.
• 1878 - Pyotr Petrovich Lazarev was born (d. 5 Feb 1966). Soviet physicist and biophysicist known for his physicochemical theory of the movement of ions and the consequent theory of nerve excitation in living matter, which attempts to explain sensation, muscular contraction, and the functions of the central nervous system.
• 1879 - Edward Bruce was born (d. 1943). Director of the New Deal art projects during the Great Depression.
• 1880 - Charles Christie was born (d. 1955). Canadian pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood.
• 1880 - Robert Fortune dies (b. 1813). Scottish botanist.
• 1881 - Ludwig Binswanger was born (d. 1966). Swiss existential psychiatrist.
• 1882 - Bruno Bauer dies (b. 1809). German theologian.
• 1883 - Alferd Packer is convicted of murder.
• 1885 - Georg Lukács was born (d. 1971). Hungarian-born philosopher and literary critic.
• 1885 - Vean Gregg was born (d. 1964). American baseball player.
• 1886 – John Humphrey Noyes dies (b. 1811). American political and religious figure.
• 1886 - Sidney Richard Williams Percy, dies (b. 1821). British artist born.
• 1887 - Gordon S. Fahrni was born (d. 1995). Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association.
• 1888 - John Hays Hammond, Jr. was born (d. 12 Feb. 1965). American inventor whose devolepment of radio remote control served as the basis for modern missile guidance systems.
• 1889 - Herbert Osborne Yardley was born (d.1958). American cryptographer.
• 1890 - Frank Murphy was born (d. 1949). American public servant.
• 1890 - Samuel J. Randall dies (b. 1828). Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
• 1891 - Maurice Vincent Buckley was born (d. 1921). Australian winner of the Victoria Cross.
• 1891 – Nella Larsen was born (d. 1964). African-American novelist.
• 1891 – Robert Scholl was born (d. 1973). German politician, father of Hans and Sophie Scholl.
• 1892 - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was born (d. 1973). Inventor of Radar.
• 1892 - Arthur Travers 'Bomber' Harris was born (d. 1984). Commander of RAF's Bomber Command in World War II.
• 1892 – Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was born (d. 1973). Scottish inventor.
• 1894 - Arthur Fadden was born (d. 1973). Thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1897 - Werner Voss was born (d.1917). WWI German flying ace.
• 1899 - Alfred Mosher Butts was born (d. 1993). American architect and inventor of the Scrabble.
• 1900 - Pierre Molinier was born (d. 1976). French painter and photographer.
• 1901 - Jacques Lacan was born (d. 1981). French psychoanalyst and semantician.
• 1902 - James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
• 1902 - Philippe de Rothschild was born (d. 1988). French Grand Prix race-car driver and wine grower.
• 1904 - Sir David Robinson was born (d. 1987). British philanthropist and entrepreneur.
• 1904 - Vasily Vasil'yevich Vereshchagin dies (b. 26 Oct 1842). Russian painter.
• 1905 - Bruno Rossi was born (d. 21 Nov 1993). Italian pioneer in the study of cosmic radiation.
  
• 1906 – Bud Freeman was born (d. 1991). American musician.
• 1906 - Samuel Beckett was born (d. 1989). Irish writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature - 1969.
• 1907 - Harold E. Stassen was born. Frequent candidate for President of the United States.
• 1908 - Franz von Leydig dies. German zoologist.
• 1908 - Martín Rico y Ortega dies (b. 12 Nov 1833). Spanish painter and engraver born.
• 1909 - Eudora Welty was born (d. 2001). American writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction -1973.
• 1909 – Stanislaw Marcin Ulam was born (d. 1984). Polish-American mathematician who played a major role in the development of the hydrogen bomb at Los Alamos.
  
• 1909 - Whitley Stokes dies (b. 1830). British lawyer.
• 1910 - William Quiller Orchardson dies (b. 27 Mar 1832). Scottish painter.
• 1911 - Ico Hitrec was born (d. 1946). Croatian footballer.
• 1911 - Azinhal Abelho was born in Orada, Borba (d. 21 Jan. 1979). Portuguese writer and poet.
  
• 1911 - Jean-Louis Lévesque was born (d. 1994). Canadian entrepreneur, racehorse owner and philanthropist.
• 1911 - George Washington Glick dies (b. 1827). Governor of Kansas.
• 1911 - John McLane dies (b. 1852). Governor of New Hampshire.
• 1911 - William Castle Keith dies (b. 21 Nov 1838). Scottish US painter, specialized in Landscapes.
• 1912 - The British Royal Flying Corps (RAF) was created by Royal Charter.
• 1912 - Ishikawa Takuboku dies (b.1886). Japanese author.
• 1913 - Fracassa a tentativa de assassinato do rei Afonso XIII da Espanha por anarquistas.
• 1913 - Robert Hingson was born (d. 9 Oct. 1996). American anesthesiologist and inventor.
• 1916 - Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner was born (d. 2006). American actress, journalist, and children's book publisher.
• 1917 - O Brasil confisca navios alemães ancorados em seus portos.
• 1917 – Robert O. Anderson was born (d. 2007). American businessman.
• 1918 - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov dies (b. 1870). Russian general.
• 1919 - Brasil : Em uma nova eleição presidencial, Epitácio Pessoa derrota Ruy Barbosa.
• 1919 – Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India. At least 1200 wounded.
• 1919 – Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
• 1919 - The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
• 1919 - Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India.
• 1919 - Howard Keel was born (d. 2004). Actor, singer, former president of the Screen Actors Guild.
• 1919 - Madalyn Murray O'Hair was born. American atheist.
• 1919 – Phil Tonken was born (d. 2000). American radio and television announcer.
• 1919 – Roland Gaucher was born (d. 2007). French journalist.
• 1920 – Claude Cheysson was born. French politician.
• 1920 - John LaPorta was born. American jazz musician.
• 1920 – Liam Cosgrave was born. Fifth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
• 1920 – Roberto Calvi was born (d. 1982). Italian banker.
• 1921 - Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party.
• 1922 - Ivone Lara was born. Brazilian composer and sambist.
• 1922 – John Braine was born (d. 1986). British novelist.
• 1922 – Julius Nyerere was born (d. 1999). Tanzanian First President and Father of the Nation.
• 1923 - Don Adams was born (d. 2005). American actor and comedian (Get Smart).
• 1923 - Fernando Lázaro Carreter was born. Spanish philologist.
• 1924 - AEK Athens FC is established in Constantinople.
• 1924 – Jack Chick was born. American evangelist.
• 1924 - Stanley Donen was born. American film director.
• 1925 - Elwood Haynes dies (b. 14 Oct 1857). American Automobile pioneer.
• 1926 – Ellie Lambeti was born (d. 1983). Greek actress.
• 1926 - John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough was born.
• 1927 - Maurice Ronet was born (d. 1983). French film actor.
• 1928 - Alan Clark was born (d. 1999). British politician.
• 1931 - Dan Gurney was born. American race car driver.
• 1931 – Jon Stone was born (d. 1997). Co-creator of Sesame Street.
• 1931 - Robert Enrico was born (d. 2001). French film director and screenwriter.
• 1932 - Vito Dumas "el Navegante Solitario" termina su primera gran hazaña: logra unir Francia con Argentina en un viaje de 74 días a través del océano Atlántico.
• 1932 - Orlando Letelier was born (d. 1976). Chilean politician.
• 1933 - Ben Nighthorse Campbell was born. American senator.
• 1935 - Lyle Waggoner was born. American actor.
• 1937 - Carlos Avilez was born. Portuguese actor and teathre director.
• 1937 – Edward Fox was born. English actor.
• 1937 - Lanford Wilson was born. American playwright.
• 1938 - Grey Owl dies (b. 1888). Proponent of nature conservation.
• 1939 - In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British.
• 1939 - Paul Sorvino was born. American actor.
• 1939 - Seamus Heaney was born. Irish poet, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1940 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was born in Nice. French poet and writer. Nobel Prize in 2008.
• 1940 – Jim McNab was born (d. 2006). Scottish footballer.
• 1940 – Mike Beuttler was born (d. 1988). British racing driver.
• 1940 - Pierre Marie dies (b. 9 Sep. 1853). French neurologist who made fundamental contributions to endocrinology.
• 1941 - Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
• 1941 - Michael Stuart Brown was born. American molecular geneticist who, with Joseph L. Goldstein, was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their elucidation of a key link in the metabolism of cholesterol in the human body.
  
• 1941 - Annie Jump Cannon dies (b. 1863). American astronomer.
• 1942 – Ataol Behramoglu was born. Turkish poet and writer.
• 1942 – Bill Conti was born. American composer.
• 1943 - World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners-of-war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre was announced in Germany, driving a wedge between the Western Allies, the Polish government-in-exile in London, and the Soviet Union.
• 1943 - James Boarman, Fred Hunter, Harold Brest and Floyd G. Hamilton take part in Alcatraz escape attempt.
• 1943 - The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC, on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
• 1943 – Billy Kidd was born. American skier.
• 1944 - The diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union were established.
• 1944 – Brian Pendleton was born (d. 2001). Musician (The Pretty Things).
• 1944 - Jack Casady was born. American musician ("Jefferson Airplane").
• 1944 - Susan Davis was born. American politician.
• 1944 - Brian Pendleton was born (d. 2001). Musician, The Pretty Things.
• 1944 - Cécile Chaminade dies (b. 1857). French composer and pianist.
• 1945 - German troops massacre more than 1000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany. The atrocity is discovered two days later by American forces.
• 1945 – Ninth American army crosses The Elbe River in Germany
• 1945 - Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna).
• 1945 – Bob Kalsu was born (d. 1970). American football player.
• 1945 – Charles Robinson was born. American actor.
• 1945 - Ferreira do Amaral was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1945 – Judy Nunn was born. Australian actress.
• 1945 – Lowell George was born (d. 1979). American singer/guitarist.
• 1945 – Tony Dow was born. American actor.
• 1945 - Ernst Cassirer dies (b. 1874). German philosopher.
• 1946 - Fernando Gomes was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1946 - Al Green was born. American soul singer and pastor.
• 1947 - Thanos Mikroutsikos was born. Greek composer and former minister.
• 1947 - Jerónimo de Sousa was born. Portuguese politician, Secretary-General of Communist Party (Partido Comunista Português).
• 1948 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.
• 1948 – Drago Jančar was born. Slovenian writer.
• 1948 - Joschka Fischer (Joseph Martin Fischer) was born. German politician and Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• 1948 - Mário Crespo was born. Portuguese journalist.
• 1948 – Nam Hae-il was born. Chief of Naval Operations of Republic of Korea Navy.
• 1948 - Sue Doughty was born. Iritish politician.
• 1949 - Christopher Hitchens was born. English-born journalist, critic and author.
• 1949 – Frank Doran was born. Scottish politician.
• 1949 - Jean-Jacques Favier was born. French engineer and a former CNES spationaut.
• 1949 – Ricardo Zuniño was born. Argentine racing driver.
• 1950 – Ron Perlman was born. American actor.
• 1950 - Terry Lester was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1950 - William Sadler was born. American actor.
• 1951 – Joachim Streich was born. East German footballer.
• 1951 – Max Weinberg was born. American drummer.
• 1951 - Peabo Bryson was born. American pop singer.
• 1951 - Peter Davison was born. English actor and the fifth Doctor Who.
• 1952 - David Drew was born. British politician.
• 1952 – Erick Avari was born. British-Indian actor.
• 1952 - Ron Dittemore was born. American NASA shuttle program manager.
• 1953 - CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind controle program MKULTRA.
• 1953 - Stephen Byers was born. British politician.
• 1954 - Roberto Dinamite was born. Brazilian footballer (Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama).
• 1954 - Jimmy Destri was born. Musician.
• 1954 - Niels Olsen was born. Danish singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner.
• 1955 – Lupe Pintor was born. Mexican boxer.
• 1955 - Ole von Beust was born. Mayor of Hamburg.
• 1955 - Lupe Pintor was born. Mexican boxer.
• 1956 - Alison Wheeler was born. British activist.
• 1956 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne was born (d. 2003). Australian Rally Driver.
• 1957 - 11th Tony Awards: Long Days Journey into the Night and My Fair Lady win.
• 1957 – Amy Goodman, American activist, host of Democracy Now
• 1957 – Dallas Moir was born. Scottish cricketer.
• 1957 – Gary Kroeger was born. American actor.
• 1957 - Saundra Santiago was born. American actress.
• 1958 – Van Cliburn is the first American to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
• 1958 - 12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello and Music Man win.
• 1959 - Um édito do Vaticano proíbe os católicos romanos de votarem a favor do comunismo.
• 1959 - Eduard van Beinum dies (b. 1901). Dutch conductor.
• 1960 - The first U.S. navigational satellite, the Transit-1B was launched from cape Canaveral, Florida on a Thor-Ablestar rocket and the Ablestar carried out the first engine restart in space to refine the orbit.
• 1960 – Bob Casey, Jr. was born. Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania.
• 1960 – Olaf Ludwig was born. German cyclist.
• 1960 - Rudi Völler was born. Former German football player and national football coach.
• 1961 – Hiro Yamamoto was born. American rock bassist.
• 1961 - Army Pfc. John A. Bennett dies (executed).
• 1962 – Dave Miley was born. American baseball player and manager.
• 1962 - Hillel Slovak was born (d. 1988). Israeli-born guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers).
• 1962 - Jennifer Rubin was born. American actress.
• 1962 - Ahti Karjalainen assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia.
• 1962 - Culbert Olson dies (b. 1876). Governor of California.
• 1963 - Garry Kasparov was born. Russian Chess grandmaster.
• 1964 - 36th Academy Awards: "Tom Jones," Sidney Poitier and Patricia Neal win. Sidney Poitier has become the first black person to win the best actor Oscar award for Lilies of the Field.
• 1964 - Ian D. Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia.
• 1964 – Caroline Rhea was born. Canadian actress.
• 1964 – Davis Love III was born. American professional golfer.
• 1965 - Patricio Pouchulu was born. Argentine architect.
• 1966 – Ali Boumnijel was born. Tunisian football player.
• 1966 – Mando was born. Greek singer.
• 1966 - Marc Ford was born. American musician (The Black Crowes).
• 1966 - Carlo Dalmazzo Carrà dies (b. 11 Feb 1881). Italian Futurist painter, critic and writer.
• 1966 - Abdul Salam Arif dies (b. 1921). President of Iraq.
• 1966 - Georges Duhamel dies (b. 1884). French writer.
• 1967 – Dana Barros was born. American basketball player.
• 1967 - Elisabete Cunha was born. Brazilian Encanto de Renascer webmaster.
• 1967 – Olga Tañón was born. Puerto Rican singer.
• 1967 - Luis Somoza Debayle dies at 44. President of Nicaragua (1956-63).
• 1969 - 33rd Golf Masters Championship: George Archer wins, shooting a 281.
• 1969 - Closure of the Brisbane tramway network.
• 1970 - An aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft led to one of the most spectacular rescue missions in US space history. The explosion left the crew stranded for four days more than 200,000 miles from Earth.
• 1970 - 34th Golf Masters Championship: Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279.
• 1970 – Gerry Creaney was born. Scottish footballer.
• 1970 – Monty Brown was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1970 - Rebecca Cummings was born. American porn star.
• 1970 – Ricardo Rincon was born. Mexican baseball player.
• 1970 – Rick Schroder was born. American actor.
• 1970 – Szilveszter Csollány was born. Hungarian gymnast, Olympic gold medalist.
• 1971 - Bo Outlaw was born. American basketball player.
• 1971 - Dina Korzun was born. Russian actress.
• 1971 - Valensia was born. Dutch singer.
• 1971 - Michel Brière dies (b. 1949). French Canadian ice hockey player.
• 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 – Aaron Lewis was born. American singer (Staind).
• 1972 – Mariusz Czerkawski was born. Polish ice hockey player.
• 1973 - The Film "Friday the 13th" is based on this day.
• 1974 - Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the USA's first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
• 1974 – Darren Turner was born. British race driver.
• 1974 – David Schurmann was born. Brazilian film director.
• 1974 - David Zdrilić was born. Australian footballer.
• 1974 – Sergei Gonchar was born. Russian ice hockey player.
• 1975 - Bus Massacre in Lebanon : Attack by Phalangist militia gunmen kills 27 Palestinian civilians and marks the start of the 15-year Lebanese civil war.
• 1975 - 39th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276.
• 1975 - Chad military coup by General Odingar.
• 1975 – Bruce Dyer was born. English footballer.
• 1975 – David Philip Hefti was born. Swiss composer and conductor.
• 1975 – Lou Bega was born. German-born musician and artist.
• 1975 - François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye dies (b. 1918). First president of Chad.
• 1975 - Larry Parks dies (b. 1914). American actor.
• 1975 - Herman Max Gluckman dies (b. 26 Jan. 1911). South African social anthropologist who pioneered the study of traditional African legal systems.
• 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.
• 1976 – Glenn Howerton was born. American actor.
• 1976 - Jonathan Brandis was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1976 - Patrik Elias was born. Czech ice hockey player.
• 1976 - Yoo Ji-tae was born. South Korean actor.
• 1978 - Arron Asham was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1978 - Carles Puyol was born. Spanish football player (FC Barcelona and National team).
• 1978 – Chris Sligh was born. American Idol finalist.
• 1978 - Kyle Howard was born. American television and movie actor.
• 1978 – James Jordan was born. English professional ballroom dancer.
• 1978 - Sylvie van der Vaart was born in Beda. Dutch actress and model.
• 1978 - Jack Chambers dies (b. 1931). Canadian artist and film maker.
• 1979 - Baron Davis was born. American basketball player.
• 1979 - Meghann Shaughnessy was born. American professional tennis player.
• 1980 - 44th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275 .
• 1980 – Colleen Clinkenbeard was born. American voice actress.
• 1980 - Jana Cova was born. Czech pornographic actress.
• 1980 - Quentin Richardson was born. American basketball player.
• 1981 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart".
• 1981 – Courtney Peldon was born. American actress.
• 1981 – Nat Borchers was born. American soccer player.
• 1981 - Asaka Yasuhiko dies (b. 1887). Member of the Japanese imperial family.
• 1982 - Bruno Gagliasso (Bruno Gagliasso Marques) was born in Rio de Janeiro (RJ). Brazilian actor.
• 1982 - Janice Vidal was born. Hong Kong singer.
• 1982 - Jill Vidal was born. Hong Kong singer, Janice Vidal's twin sister.
• 1982 – Nellie McKay was born. American singer.
• 1983 - Mercè Rodoreda dies. Spanish writer.
• 1983 - Harold Washington is elected as the first African-American mayor in Chicago's history.
• 1983 – Hunter Pence was born. American baseball player.
• 1983 - Schalk Burger was born. South African rugby player.
• 1983 - Theodore Stephanides dies (b. 1896). Greek poet, author, doctor and naturalist.
• 1984 - Pete Rose becomes the first player in National League history to collect 4,000 hits.
• 1984 - India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexed more territory from the Line of Control.
• 1984 – Hiro Mizushima was born. Japanese actor.
• 1984 - Ralph Kirkpatrick dies (b. 1911). American musician.
• 1984 - Richard Hurndall dies (b. 1910). British actor.
• 1985 - Enver Hoxha is succeeded by Ramiz Alia as the leader of Albania.
• 1986 - Jack Nicklaus wins his sixth Masters Tournament.
• 1986 - O Papa João Paulo II visita a Sinagoga de Roma, primeira visita papal registrada à uma sinagoga.
• 1986 - 50th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279.
• 1987 - Portugal and China sign an agreement in which the island of Macao would be returned to China in 1999.
• 1987 – Brandon Hardesty was born. American internet entertainer.
• 1988 - Italy government of De Mita forms.
• 1988 - Anderson was born. Brazilian footballer (Manchester United FC).
• 1989 - At least six Palestinians have been killed in an early morning raid by Israeli soldiers on an Arab village on the West Bank.
• 1989 - D. António Ferreira Gomes dies (b. 1906). Portuguese bishop (Bishop of Oporto).
• 1990 - The Soviet Union admits to committing the Katyn Massacre.
• 1992 – The Great Chicago Flood.
• 1992 - U. K.: Neil Kinnock resigns as British Labour leader following the party's defeat by the Conservatives in the general election four days earlier.
• 1992 - First episode of Crayon Shinchan is aired.
• 1992 - Emma Degerstedt was born. American actress.
• 1993 - Baseball: Lee Smith passes Jeff Reardon for first on the all-time saves list with his 358th save in a 9-7 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• 1993 - Wallace Stegner dies of a car accident (b. 1909). American writer.
• 1995 - Mais de mil jovens portugueses manifestam-se em Vila Nova de Foz Côa contra a construção da barragem e em defesa da preservação de pinturas rupestres pré-históricas.
• 1996 - Denis Sargan dies at 71. Econometrician.
• 1997 - Sloane Momsen was born. American child actress.
• 1997 - Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament 1997 61st Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods at 21 (270 18 under par).
• 1997 - George Wald dies. Biologist, Nobel Prize winner for discovering vitamin A in the retina.
• 1997 - Dorothy Frooks dies (b. 1896). American author, publisher, military figure, and actress.
• 1997 - Voldemar Väli dies (b. 1903). Estonian wrestler, Olympic medalist.
• 1997 - Baseball: For the first time in 36 years, two doubleheader games are between the same pairs of cities on the same day. The San Francisco Giants v New York Mets and New York Yankees v Oakland Athletics.
• 1999 - Ortvin Sarapu dies (b. 1924). New Zealand chess player "Mr NZ Chess".
• 1999 - Willi Stoph dies. East Germany politician.
• 2000- The mouse Yoda was born, and became the world's oldest mouse on his fourth birthday in 2004 (which at 1,462-days-old compares to about 136 in human-years).
• 2000 - Giorgio Bassani dies (b. 1916). Italian writer.
• 2001 - Robert Moon dies (b. 1917). American postal inspector and "Father" of the ZIP Code.
• 2002 - Desmond Titterington dies (b. 1928). Northern Irish racecar driver.
• 2002 - Damon Knight dies (b. 1922). Science fiction author.
• 2002 - Jon Gustafson dies (b. 28 Jun 1945). American editor and writer.
• 2002 - The Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002 ends. President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela returns / Hugo Chávez reassume a presidência da Venezuela (deposto em 11 Abr 2002).
• 2002 - Desmond Titterington dies (b. 1928). Northern Irish racecar driver
• 2003 - Mike Weir becomes first Canadian and first leftie to win the golf Masters Tournament.
• 2003 - British Paula Radcliffe wins London Marathon (women).
• 2003 - Ethyopian Gezahegne Abera wins London Marathon (men).
• 2004 - Lou Berberet dies (b. 1929). Baseball player.
• 2004 - Caron Keating dies (b. 1962). British television presenter.
• 2005 - Johnnie Johnson dies (b. 1924). American blues musician.
• 2005 - Don Blasingame dies (b. 1932). Baseball player.
• 2005 - Johnny Loughrey dies (b. 1945). Irish singer.
• 2005 - Philippe Volter dies (b. 195). Belgian actor.
• 2006 - Bill Baker dies (b. 1911). Baseball player.
• 2007 - Don Selwyn dies (b. c. 1936). Māori actor and film director.
• 2008 - John Wheeler dies (b. 1911). American physicist and educator.
• 2009 – Bruce Snyder dies (b. 1940). American football coach.
  
• 2009 – Harry Kalas dies (b. 1936). American sportscaster.
  
• 2009 – Mark Fidrych dies (b. 1954). American baseball player.
• Cambodian New Year (Cambodia).
• Songkan (Laos).
• Songkran (Thailand).
• First day of Lao New Year.
• Sikh Calendar: Vaisakhi.
• The Feast Day of St. Martin the Confessor in the Greek Orthodox Church.
• Aerosmith Day is celebrated in Massachusetts.
• In the Catholic Church: Saint Martinus I, Saint Hermenegild, Caradoc, Carpus, Maximus, Blessed Ida of Boulogne.
• Brazil: National Anthen Day, Kiss Day and Day of the Young Persons /Dia do Hino Nacional Brasileiro; Dia do Beijo; Dia dos Jovens.