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13 April, 1997

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

13 April, 1992

Neil Kinnock resigns as British Labour leader following the partys defeat by the Conservatives in the general election four days earlier.

13 April, 1987

Portugal and the Peoples Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to the latter in 1999.

13 April, 1985

Enver Hoxha is succeeded by Ramiz Alia as the leader of Albania.

13 April, 1984

India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexed more territory from the Line of Control.

13 April, 1983

Harold Washington is elected as the first African-American mayor in Chicagos history.

13 April, 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.

13 April, 1974

Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the USAs first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.

13 April, 1972

The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the Peoples Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.

13 April, 1970

An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew into deadly peril.

13 April, 1969

Closure of the Brisbane tramway network.

13 April, 1953

CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind controle program MKULTRA.

13 April, 1945

German troops massacre more than 1000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.

13 April, 1944

The diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union were established.

13 April, 1943

World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners-of-war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyn Forest Massacre was announced, alienating the Western Allies, the Polish government-in-exile in London, from the Soviet Union.

13 April, 1943

James Boarman, Fred Hunter, Harold Brest and Floyd G. Hamilton take part in an Alcatraz escape attempt.

13 April, 1943

The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC, on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jeffersons birth.

13 April, 1941

Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.

13 April, 1939

In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British.

13 April, 1921

Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers Party.

13 April, 1919

The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.

13 April, 1919

Amritsar massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India.

13 April, 1902

James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

13 April, 1873

Colfax Massacre.

13 April, 1868

Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.

13 April, 1861

American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.

13 April, 1849

Hungary becomes a republic.

13 April, 1829

The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.

13 April, 1742

George Frideric Handels oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.

13 April, 1598

Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.

13 April, 1256

The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.

13 April, 1250

The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured.

13 April, 1204

The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople.

13 April, 1180

Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter.

13 April, 1111

Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

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