On this day: April 13th

On this day: April 13th

There are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: April 13th

Events On this day: April 13th

1902: James C. Penney opens his first store.
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 the Indians for disobedience.” The Indian independence movement grew considerably after the Amritsar massacre.
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 submarines.
1970: Mikis Theodorakis is freed. The Greek composer and politician was interned in the concentration camp of Oropos by the right-wing military junta. The solidarity movement demanding his release included Dmitri Shostakovich, Leonard Bernstein, and Harry Belafonte.
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 to return to Earth safely.
1984: Pete Rose gets his 4000th hit.
1986: Jack Nicklaus wins his sixth Masters Tournament.
1997: Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win golf’s Masters Tournament

1743: Thomas Jefferson (US President #3)
1866: Butch Cassidy (Outlaw)
1906: Samuel Beckett (Irish/French author, playwright, director, Nobel Prize laureate)
1924: Stanley Donen (American director, choreographer)
1926: Don Adams (Maxwell Smart on Get Smart)
1939: Paul Sorvino (Actor)
1949: Christopher Hitchens (English/American journalist, author)
1963: Garry Kasparov (Chess champion)
1964: Davis Love III (Professional Golfer)
1970: Ricky Schroder (Actor)

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