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13 Apr 2024
Iran launched a drone and missile strike on Israel following an Israeli attack on its Damascus embassy.
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13 Apr 2023
The FBI arrested US Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeria for leaking classified documents.
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13 Apr 2021
Simpsons voice actor Hank Azaria apologized for voicing Apu for 30 years.
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13 Apr 2019
The world's largest plane, The Stratolaunch, had its first flight from the Mojave Desert in California.
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13 Apr 2014
Manny Pacquiao reclaimed WBO welterweight boxing title after defeating Timothy Bradley.
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13 Apr 1997
Tiger Woods becomes the youngest ever golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
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13 Apr 1994
Star Trek actor George Takei had an asteroid named after him.
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13 Apr 1992
Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela revealed their separation.
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13 Apr 1979
The world record for the longest table tennis doubles marathon was broken with a time of 101 hours.
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13 Apr 1970
An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13, leaving the spacecraft crippled.
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13 Apr 1970
Mikis Theodorakis is freed.
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13 Apr 1960
The world's first satellite navigation system, Transit 1-B, was successfully launched from the US.
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13 Apr 1953
The director of the CIA launched Project MKUltra, the US' top secret mind control program.
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13 Apr 1943
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial to Thomas Jefferson.
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13 Apr 1919
British troops massacre around 400 unarmed civilians in India.
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13 Apr 1870
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City was founded.
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13 Apr 1869
George Westinghouse Jr. patented steam power brake devices in the US.
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13 Apr 1796
The United States received its first elephant.
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13 Apr 1668
John Dryden was appointed as England's first Poet Laureate by King Charles II.
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13 Apr 1517
The Ottoman forces took over Cairo, Egypt.
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13 Apr 1111
Pope Paschal II crowned Henry V as the Holy Roman Emperor.
