History Events on April 13

The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

#Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art

The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.

#Roman_Catholic_Relief_Act_1829

The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.

#Jefferson_Memorial

American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.

#American_Civil_War

A Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.

#Soviet-Japanese_Neutrality_Pact

The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.

#2017_Nangarhar_airstrike

Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.

#Tiger_Woods

World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katy? Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.

#World_War_II

Portugal and China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.

#Macau

Basements throughout the Chicago Loop are flooded, forcing the Chicago Board of Trade Building and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to close.

#Chicago_Loop

Vietnam War: The Battle of An L?c begins.

#Vietnam_War

Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

#Henry_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence in a closed session of the National Assembly.

#Lajos_Kossuth

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

CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.

#Central_Intelligence_Agency

American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.

#American_Revolutionary_War

American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

#Van_Cliburn

The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place.

#Colfax_massacre

Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojir? at Funajima island.

#Miyamoto_Musashi

George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.

#George_Frideric_Handel

A bus near the Vale of Tempe, Greece was involved in a major vehicle accident with a truck and multiple cars, leaving 21 students in the tenth grade of Makrochori, Imathia High School dead and nine injured during their return to their homes from a trip to Athens.

#Vale_of_Tempe

Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.

#Constantinople

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India; at least 1200 are wounded.

#Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre

World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.

#Nazi_Germany

The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.

#Transit_(satellite)

American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces.

#Raleigh,_North_Carolina

World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.

#Soviet_Union

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

Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland.

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.

An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.

At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

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.

Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.

The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father; she is brought to Henricus as hostage.