| YEAR | DAY | EVENT |
| 837 | Apr 13 | Best view of Halley’s Comet in 2000 years. |
| 1517 | Apr 13 | Tuman Bey, the last Mameluke sultan of Egypt, was hanged as Osman’s army occupied Cairo. |
| 1638 | Apr 13 | Duke Henri II (58), French Huguenot leader, died. |
| 1695 | Apr 13 | Jean de la Fontaine (73), French poet (Fables), died. |
| 1759 | Apr 13 | The French defeated European Allies in Battle of Bergen. |
| 1796 | Apr 13 | The 1st elephant arrived in US from India. |
| 1808 | Apr 13 | William Henry Lane (“Juda”) perfected the tap dance. |
| 1829 | Apr 13 | English Emancipation Act granted freedom of religion to Catholics. |
| 1834 | Apr 13 | HMS Beagle anchored at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia. |
| 1863 | Apr 13 | Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled in NY became the 1st orthopedic hospital. |
| 1869 | Apr 13 | Steam power brake was patented by George Westinghouse. |
| 1870 | Apr 13 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art was incorporated in New York. The museum opened in 1872 |
| 1882 | Apr 13 | An anti-Semitic League formed in Prussia. |
| 1918 | Apr 13 | Electrical fire killed 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital. |
| 1939 | Apr 13 | W. Saroyan’s “My Heart’s in the Highlands,” premiered in NYC. |
| 1943 | Apr 13 | President Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial. It was designed by John Russell Pope. |
| 1944 | Apr 13 | South Carolina rejected black suffrage. |
| 1961 | Apr 13 | The U.N. General Assembly condemned South Africa for apartheid. |
| 1962 | Apr 13 | US steel industry was forced to give up price increases. |
| 1966 | Apr 13 | Pan Am placed a $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s. The 747 jumbo jet revolutionized mass air transportation. |
| 1970 | Apr 13 | Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst: “Houston, we’ve got a problem!” The incident preventing a planned moon landing. The three-man crew managed to return safely. |
| 1980 | Apr 13 | The US Olympic Committee voted to boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow. |
| 1987 | Apr 13 | Gary Hart announced his bid for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination. |
| 1990 | Apr 13 | The Soviet Union accepted responsibility for the World War II murders of thousands of imprisoned Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, a massacre the Soviets had previously blamed on the Nazis. |
| 1992 | Apr 13 | Wallace Stegner (b.1909), novelist (Pulitzer 1972), died in New Mexico. |
| 1993 | Apr 13 | Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia,” premiered in London. |
| 1996 | Apr 13 | President Clinton used his weekly radio address to call on Congress to pass an anti-terrorist bill that had languished for a year despite a promise of quick action after the Oklahoma City bombing. |
| 1997 | Apr 13 | Tiger Woods won golf’s Masters Tournament by 12 strokes for a record 18-under-par 270 total score. He was the youngest (21) and first black winner of the Masters. |
| 1998 | Apr 13 | An Amtrak train collided with Conrail freight cars near Pittsburgh and injured 20 people. |
| 1999 | Apr 13 | The digital 3-D opera, Monsters of Grace,” by composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson was scheduled to premier at UC Berkeley. The score was set to English translation of love poems by the Sufi poet Rumi. |
| 2000 | Apr 13 | US drug agents arrested at least 45 people in a Jamaican-led marijuana ring that bribed FedEx workers to distribute the drug for East Coast markets. 22 of those arrested were FedEx employees. |
| 2001 | Apr 13 | With the crew of a U.S. spy plane safely back in the United States, American officials gave their detailed version of what happened when the plane collided with a Chinese fighter on April 1; the United States said its plane was struck by the jet. China maintained that the U.S. plane rammed the fighter. |
| 2002 | Apr 13 | The Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC), established to determine the new border, released its report. The UN panel ruled in favor of Ethiopia on all territory contested with Eritrea, but Ethiopia contested some of the commission’s decisions. |
| 2003 | Apr 13 | In northern Greece a bus carrying high school students crashed on a mountain road, killing 21 people and injuring about 30 others. |
| 2004 | Apr 13 | Barry Bonds hit his 661st homer, passing Willie Mays to take sole possession of third place on baseball’s career list. |
| 2005 | Apr 13 | Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks in back-to-back court appearances in Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta. |
| 2006 | Apr 13 | Two more retired US generals called for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign, bringing the total to 6 this month, claiming the chief architect of the Iraq war and subsequent American occupation should be held accountable for the chaos there. |
| 2007 | Apr 13 | In Delaware a special committee of the board of directors of Computer Associates accused founder and former chairman Charles Wang of directing and participating in fraudulent accounting during the 1980s and 1990s, which the US government had described as totaling $2.2 billion. |
| 2008 | Apr 13 | The World Bank, IMF and G7 ended three days of meetings eliciting calls for economic coordination but no joint emergency plan. |
| 2009 | Apr 13 | In California a jury found Phil Spector (69), former rock-n-roll producer, guilty of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson (40). |
| 2010 | Apr 13 | In Washington, DC, the leaders of 47 nations agreed to a voluntary program to prevent weapons-grade nuclear materials from falling into the hands of terrorists. |
| 2011 | Apr 13 | The US federal government ordered 16 of the nation’s largest mortgage lenders and servicers to reimburse homeowners who were improperly foreclosed upon. |
| 2012 | Apr 13 | The top US aid official said the country is drastically reducing the number of aid projects in Pakistan as part of reforms aimed at improving the distribution of billions of dollars in funding. |
| 2013 | Apr 13 | Months of increased tension at the Guantanamo Bay prison boiled over into a clash between guards and detainees as the military closed Camp 6, a communal section of the facility and moved its inmates into single cells. Prisoners participating in a hunger strike had covered up security cameras and blocked windows. |
| 2014 | Apr 13 | In Washington DC a G20 official said reforms to the International Monetary Fund have hit a deadlock despite a declaration from global financial chiefs that they would move forward without the United States if it fails to ratify the changes by year-end. |
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