About April 13

April 13, 2025 is the 103rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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Aries is the sun 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 310 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On April 13

  • 1256 –
    The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
  • 1613 –
    Samuel Argall kidnaps Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas in Virginia along the Potomac River.
  • 1796 –
    The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
  • 1829 –
    The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
  • 1861 –
    American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
  • 1870 –
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art founded.
  • 1902 –
    James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
  • 1909 –
    The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the deposal of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
  • 1919 –
    Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
  • 1943 –
    World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.
  • 1953 –
    CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
  • 1958 –
    During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
  • 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 –
    Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
  • 1974 –
    Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
  • 1975 –
    Bus massacre in Lebanon: Attack by the Phalangist resistance kill 26 militia members of the P.F.L. of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
  • 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.
  • 1984 –
    India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control.
  • 1997 –
    Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.

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