13 April
Notable Births
Karl Hein (footballer)
b. 2002
Estonian footballer (born 2002)
Neco Williams
b. 2001
Welsh footballer (born 2001)
Rasmus Dahlin
b. 2000
Swedish ice hockey player (born 2000)
Facundo Torres
b. 2000
Uruguayan footballer (born 2000)
Alessandro Bastoni
b. 1999
Italian footballer (born 1999)
András Schäfer
b. 1999
Hungarian footballer (born 1999)
Mateo Cassierra
b. 1997
Colombian footballer (born 1997)
Kyle Walker-Peters
b. 1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Hunter Pence
b. 1983
American baseball player (born 1983)
Ricky Schroder
b. 1970
American actor (born 1970)
Garry Kasparov
b. 1963
Russian chess grandmaster (born 1963)
Jonjo O'Neill (horse racing)
b. 1952
Irish horseracing trainer and former jockey (born 1952)
Ron Perlman
b. 1950
American actor (born 1950)
Seamus Heaney
b. 1939
Irish poet (1939–2013)
Alan Clark
b. 1928
British politician and author (1928–1999)
Don Adams
b. 1923
American actor (1923–2005)
Eudora Welty
b. 1909
American writer and photographer (1909–2001)
Samuel Beckett
b. 1906
Irish playwright and poet (1906–1989)
Thomas Jefferson
b. 1743
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809
Frederick North, Lord North
b. 1732
Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782
Notable Deaths
Richard Armitage (government official)
d. 2025
American diplomat and government official (1945–2025)
Mario Vargas Llosa
d. 2025
Peruvian novelist and writer (1936–2025)
Jean Marsh
d. 2025
English actress (1934–2025)
Faith Ringgold
d. 2024
American artist (1930–2024)
Michel Bouquet
d. 2022
French actor (1925–2022)
Gloria Parker
d. 2022
American musician and bandleader (1921–2022)
Dan M. Rooney
d. 2017
American football executive/owner, philanthropist and diplomat (1932–2017)
Eduardo Galeano
d. 2015
Uruguayan writer and journalist (1940–2015)
Günter Grass
d. 2015
German author and artist (1927–2015)
Herb Trimpe
d. 2015
American comics creator (1939–2015)
Ernesto Laclau
d. 2014
Argentine philosopher and political theorist
Michael Ruppert
d. 2014
American writer and investigative journalist
John Archibald Wheeler
d. 2008
American theoretical physicist (1911–2008)
Muriel Spark
d. 2006
Scottish author (1918–2006)
Johnnie Johnson (musician)
d. 2005
American jazz, blues, and rock and roll pianist (1924–2005)
Caron Keating
d. 2004
British television presenter (1962–2004)
Giorgio Bassani
d. 2000
Italian writer
Frenchy Bordagaray
d. 2000
American baseball player (1910–2000)
Ortvin Sarapu
d. 1999
Estonian-New Zealand chess player (1924–1999)
Willi Stoph
d. 1999
German politician (1914–1999)
On This Day in History
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2025
Rory McIlroy wins the Masters Tournament, becoming just the sixth person to complete the Grand Slam in golf.
Rory McIlroy
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.
Bondi Junction stabbings
2023
The house of Jack Teixeira is raided in an investigation into leaked Pentagon documents; he is arrested on the same day.
Jack Teixeira
2014
Three people are killed in a shooting in Overland Park, Kansas.
2014 Overland Park shootings
2013
Salam Fayyad resigns as Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority following an ongoing dispute with President Mahmoud Abbas.
Salam Fayyad
2013
Lion Air Flight 904 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Indonesia, injuring 40 people.
Lion Air Flight 904
2009
A fire destroys a homeless hostel and kills at least 22 people in Kamień Pomorski, Poland.
Kamień Pomorski homeless hostel fire
2006
The United Front for Democratic Change's attack on the Chadian capital of N'Djamena is repelled by the Chadian army
United Front for Democratic Change
1997
Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
Tiger Woods
1996
Two women and four children are killed after an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.
Mansouri attack
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.
United States Department of the Treasury
1976
Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion, the deadliest industrial accident in modern Finnish history.
Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion
1975
Beirut bus massacre: A confrontation between Phalangist paramilitaries and PLO militia marks the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
1975 Beirut bus massacre
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.
Universal Postal Union
1972
Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
Vietnam War
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.
Oxygen
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.
36th Academy Awards
1960
The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
Transit (satellite navigation system)
1953
CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
Central Intelligence Agency
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.
Hadassah Medical Center