April 13

That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee. 

Proverbs 22:19

April is:

• Actors Appreciation Month - Designed to further the appreciation of the acting profession.
  
  
• Alcohol Awareness Month
  
  
• Cancer Control Month - To educate people about the importance of early detection. Contact local chapters for more information.

Today is:

• Air brake patented (1869) - George Westinghouse patented the First air brakes.
  
  
• Dimestore Day - Celebrate Frank Woolworth's birthday by shopping for bargains. Sponsor: The Life of the Party. 
  
  
• Edict of Nantes Anniversary (1598) - King Henry IV of France signed this edict; it was one of the first political acts to grant religious rights (in this case to the Huguenots).
  
  
• Handel's Messiah premiered (1747) - Handel's Messiah was first performed publicly at the New Music Hall in Dublin, Ireland. 
  
• Silent Spring published (1967) - Rachel Carson's Silent String warned of ecological disaster if no action was taken. Take action today!
  
  
• First J. C. Penney store (1902) - The first J. C. Penney's opened in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

Born on this Day

• 1519: Catherine de' Medici
  

• 1721: John Hanson, 1st US President under the Articles of Confederation
  

• 1732: Frederick Lord North, British prime minister (1770-82)
  

• 1743: The third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, in present-day Albemarle County, Virginia.
  

• 1852: Frank Woolworth, founder of the five-and-dime stores
  

• 1866: Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American western outlaw and leader of the Wild Bunch.
  

• 1892: Sir Robert Watson-Watt. Watson-Watt he invented a new apparatus for the "detection and location of aircraft by radio methods" for radar, while he was superintendent of the Radio Research Lab at Ditton Park, England.
  

• 1899: Alfred Butts inventor of the game of ``Scrabble.''
  

• 1906: Irish dramatist and novelist Samuel Beckett He is known for his works ``Happy Days'' and ``Waiting for Godot.'' He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969.
  

• 1907: Former Minnesota Gov. Harold Stassen
  

• 1909: Author Eudora Welty
  

• 1919: Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  

• 1919: Actor Howard Keel
  

• 1924: Movie director Stanley Donen
  

• 1930: Actor Bradford Dillman
  

• 1933: Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Republican, Colorado)
  

• 1935: American actor Lyle Waggoner He is best known for his work on television's ``Carol Burnett Show.'' He also appeared in the films ``Dead Women in Lingerie'' and ``Wizards of the Demon Sword.''
  

• 1937: Actor Edward Fox
  

• 1937: Playwright Lanford Wilson
  

• 1939: Actor Paul Sorvino. His work includes the ``Law & Order'' television series and films ``Goodfellas'' and ``The Firm.''
  

• 1942: Movie and TV composer Bill Conti
  

• 1944: Rock musician Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane)
  

• 1945: Actor Tony Dow
  

• 1946: Singer Al Green. Among his hits were ``Can't Get Next to You'' and ``I'm Still in Love with You.'' He is an ordained minister.
  

• 1950: Actor Ron Perlman. He is known for his role in the TV series ``Beauty and the Beast.'' His films include ``Name of the Rose,''
  ``Romeo's Bleeding'' and ``Alien Resurrection.''
  

• 1951: Singer Peabo Bryson
  

• 1951: Rock musician Max Weinberg Drummer (E Street Band)
  

• 1957: Comedian Gary Kroeger
  

• 1957: Actress Saundra Santiago
  

• 1961: Rock musician Joey Mazzola (Sponge)
  

• 1963: Chess champion Garry Kasparov. He became the youngest world chess champion after defeating Anatoly Karpov in 1985.
  

• 1964: Baseball player Jose Rijo. The Cincinnati Reds pitcher beat the Oakland A's twice and claimed the MVP award during the 1990 World Series.
  

• 1964: Actress Page Hannah.
  

• 1965: Rock musician Lisa Umbarger (Toadies)
  

• 1970: Actor Rick Schroder
  

• 1976: Actor Jonathan Brandis ("Seaquest DSV") 
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 1598: The Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots.
  

• 1742: Handel's oratorio, the ``Messiah'' is first performed in Dublin.
  

• 1775: Lord North extends the New England Restraining Act to South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. The act forbids trade with any country other than Britain and Ireland.
  

• 1759: The French defeat the European allies in Battle of Bergen.
  

• 1796: The first elephant arrives in America from Bengal, India.
  

• 1861: After 34 hours of bombardment, Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates.
  

• 1865: Union forces under Gen. Sherman begin their devastating march through Georgia.
  

• 1869: The air brake is patented by George Westinghouse of New York.
  

• 1870: The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York.
  

• 1902: J.C. Penny opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
  

• 1919: British forces kill hundreds of Indian nationalists in the Amritsar Massacre.
  

• 1933: The first flight over Mount Everest is completed by Lord Clydesdale.
  

• 1936: American magician, Howard Thurston died. He led the largest magic show in the world and was famous for his large stage illusions such as the ``floating lady.'' In his later years he gave one-hour shows in movie theaters.
  

• 1941: German troops capture Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
  

• 1943: President Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial.
  

• 1945: Vienna falls to Soviet troops.
  

• 1958: Van Cliburn became the first American to win the Tchaikovsky International Piano Contest in Moscow.
  

• 1960: The first navigational satellite is launched into Earth's orbit.
  

• 1961: The U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa because of apartheid.
  

• 1964: Sidney Poitier becomes first black actor to win an Academy Award, for ``Lilies of the Field.''
  

• 1965 Lawrence Bradford Jr., a 16-year-old from New York, starts work as the first black page ever to serve in either chamber of Congress.
  

• 1970: Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. (The astronauts managed to return safely.)
  

• 1972: The Major League Baseball strike ends as owners agree to add $500,000 to the players' pension fund.
  

• 1976: The U.S. extends the offshore fishing limit from 12 to 200 miles.
  

• 1976: The U.S. Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes.
  

• 1979: The world's longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours.
  

• 1986: Pope John Paul the Second visited a Rome synagogue in the first recorded papal visit of its kind.
  

• 1987: The Population Reference Bureau reports the world's population had exceeded five billion.
  

• 1989: House Speaker Jim Wright delivered an emotional defense of his conduct against ethics charges, declaring he would "fight to the last ounce of conviction and energy" he possessed.
  

• 1990: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev gives Lithuania a two-day ultimatum, threatening to cut off some supplies to the Baltic republic if it does not rescind laws passed since a March 11 declaration of independence.
  

• 1990: The Soviet Union accepted responsibility and apologized for the World War Two murders of thousands of imprisoned Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, a massacre the Soviets had previously blamed on the Nazis.
  

• 1991: An advance team of U.N. observers arrives in Kuwait City to set up a peacekeeping force along the Kuwait-Iraqi border. 
  

• 1991: Speaking at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, President Bush warned Iraq the United States would "not tolerate any interference" with the international relief effort for Kurdish refugees. 
  

• 1992: Construction workers breech a retaining wall in the Chicago River, sending water flooding through a tunnel system connecting buildings in the downtown area.
  

• 1992: Princess Anne, daughter of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, begins divorce proceedings after a two-year separation from Capt. Mark Phillips.
  

• 1994: Five Israelis are killed and another 30 wounded in a suicide bombing in a bus station in Hadera.
  

• 1995: Rep. Robert Dornan, R-California, announces his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination.
  

• 1995: James M. McHaney, a prosecutor in the war crimes trials at Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II died.
  

• 1995: A federal appeals court opened the way for Shannon Faulkner to become the first woman to take part in military training at The Citadel.
  

• 1996: President Clinton used his weekly radio address to call on Congress to pass an anti-terrorism bill that had languished for a year despite a promise of quick action after the Oklahoma City bombing. 
  

• 1997: Tiger Woods, 21, wins the Masters Tournament. He was the youngest Masters champion and the first African-American to win any of the four major professional golf tournaments for men.
  

• 1997: Indian Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda resigns.
  

• 1998: NationsBank and BankAmerica announced a $62.5 billion merger creating the country's first coast-to-coast bank while Banc One and First Chicago NBD said they would unite in a $28.9 billion deal.
  

• 1998: A 500-pound steel joint fell from the upper level of New York's Yankee Stadium, crashing onto seats below (fortunately, no fans were inside the park at the time)
  

• 1999: Right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Michigan, to ten to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder in the lethal injection of a Lou Gehrig's disease patient.
  

• 2000: President Clinton, during a question-and-answer session with newspaper editors, heatedly said "I'm not ashamed" about being impeached and "I'm not interested" in being pardoned for any alleged crimes in the Monica Lewinsky scandal and Whitewater investigation.
  

• 2001: A high-ranking Chechen official in the republic's pro-Russian administration is killed when an explosion rips through a television studio where he was filming a broadcast.
  
  

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