Today in History
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1919 British troops massacre around 400 unarmed civilians in India
Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered his men to shoot into the crowd, in his own words “to punish
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1960 The world's first satellite navigation system is launched
Transit 1B was primarily used by the U.S. Navy to update the navigation systems aboard their Polaris
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1970 Mikis Theodorakis is freed
The Greek composer and politician was interned in the concentration camp of Oropos by the right-wing
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1970 An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13, leaving the spacecraft crippled
The emergency prompted Jack Swigert's famous quote “Houston, we've had a problem”. The crew managed
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1997 Tiger Woods becomes the youngest ever golfer to win the Masters Tournament
The then 21-year old sportsman was also the first person of African heritage to win a major golf tit
Births On This Day,
April, 13
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1963 Garry Kasparov
Russian chess player
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1949 Christopher Hitchens
English/American journalist, author
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1924 Stanley Donen
American director, choreographer
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1906 Samuel Beckett
Irish/French author, playwright, director, Nobel Prize laureate
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1743 Thomas Jefferson
American politician, 3rd President of the United States
Deaths On This Day,
April, 13
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2009 Harry Kalas
American sportscaster
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1954 Angus Lewis Macdonald
Canadian politician
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1938 Grey Owl
English/Canadian environmentalist, author
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1882 Bruno Bauer
German historian, philosopher
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1868 Tewodros II
of Ethiopia
