Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 13
This is a list of selected April 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Henry IV of France -
George Frideric Handel
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Henry IV of France (requires undeletion)
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Polish firefighters searching for victims in the charred remains of the homeless shelter in Kamień Pomorski, Poland -
Ba Cut
Ineligible
| Blurb | Why ineligible |
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| 1742 – Messiah, an oratorio by Baroque composer George Frideric Handel, premiered in Dublin. | unreferenced section, refimprove section, original research |
| 1873 – In the wake of a disputed election for local political offices in the American town of Colfax, Louisiana, armed white supremacists overpowered freedmen and the African American state militia trying to control the parish courthouse, killing over 100 of them. | lead too short |
| 1919 – The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, a government in exile based in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation of Korea, was formed. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1956 – The Vietnamese National Army captured Ba Cut, military commander of the Hoa Hao religious sect, which ran a de facto state in southern Vietnam in opposition to Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem.
- 1984 – Indian forces launched Operation Meghdoot, a preemptive attack on the disputed Siachen Glacier region of Kashmir, triggering a military conflict with Pakistan.
- 1997 – In golf, twenty-one-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to win The U.S. Masters, breaking the tournament's record for the lowest four-round score (270 strokes, 18 under par).
Other
- Apollo 13 appears on April 14.
- Katyn massacre appears on March 5.
- 1598 – King Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, granting freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
- 1919 – British Indian Army troops massacred hundreds of unarmed men, women and children who were attending a peaceful gathering at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, India.
- 1941 – The Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan signed a neutrality pact, which lasted through most of World War II.
- 1948 – A convoy bringing medical and fortification supplies and personnel to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus was ambushed by Arab forces, leaving about eighty people dead.
- 1953 – The CIA began Project MKULTRA, an illegal, covert human research program into mind control.
- 2009 - Twenty-three people died in a homeless hostel fire (damage pictured) in Kamień Pomorski, Poland, the country's deadliest fire since 1980.