This Day In History
April 13
Hail kills English troops Handel's Messiah premieres in Dublin Thomas Jefferson is born British attack at Bound Brook, New Jersey Fort Sumter surrenders Butch Cassidy is born Eudora Welty is born Germans capture Helsinki, Finland The Amritsar Massacre USS Astoria attempts pre-war reconnaissance Japan and USSR sign nonaggression pact Hitler bluffs from bunker as Russians advance and atrocities continue Sidney Poitier wins Best Actor Oscar for Lilies of the Field SCLC passes resolution about South Vietnam Apollo 13 oxygen tank explodes North Vietnamese launch major attack on An Loc Mass murderer Wilder commits suicide Soviets admit to Katyn Massacre Tiger Woods wins first major Tiger Woods wins his first Masters Baseball All-Star killed in truck accident
Hail kills English troops Handel's Messiah premieres in Dublin Thomas Jefferson is born British attack at Bound Brook, New Jersey Fort Sumter surrenders Butch Cassidy is born Eudora Welty is born Germans capture Helsinki, Finland The Amritsar Massacre USS Astoria attempts pre-war reconnaissance Japan and USSR sign nonaggression pact Hitler bluffs from bunker as Russians advance and atrocities continue Sidney Poitier wins Best Actor Oscar for Lilies of the Field SCLC passes resolution about South Vietnam Apollo 13 oxygen tank explodes North Vietnamese launch major attack on An Loc Mass murderer Wilder commits suicide Soviets admit to Katyn Massacre Tiger Woods wins first major Tiger Woods wins his first Masters Baseball All-Star killed in truck accident
