EST. DECEMBER 1994 • 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com 🐯
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
April 13
Monday, April 13, 2026
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HISTORIC EVENTS
Rory McIlroy wins the Masters Tournament, becoming just the sixth person to complete the Grand Slam in golf.
Six people and the perpetrator are killed and twelve others injured in a mass stabbing at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney, Australia.
The house of Jack Teixeira is raided in an investigation into leaked Pentagon documents; he is arrested on the same day.
Three people are killed in a shooting in Overland Park, Kansas.
Salam Fayyad resigns as Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority following an ongoing dispute with the President Mahmoud Abbas.
A fire destroys a homeless hostel and kills at least 22 people in Kamień Pomorski, Poland.
The United Front for Democratic Change's attack on the Chadian capital of N'Djamena is repelled by the Chadian army
Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
Two women and four children are killed after Israeli helicopter fired rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.
The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
American writer and actress (Mean Streets)
British photographer (album cover art for Depeche Mode
South Korean naval officer and the 25th Chief of Naval Operations of Republic of Korea Navy
British politician (MP for Guildford)
Czech soccer forward (SK Slavia Prague 232 games) and manager (SK Slavia Prague
Australian-American pop songwriter and record producer (with Andy Chinn: Sweet - "The Ballroom Blitz"; Suzi Quatro; Toni Basel - "Mickey"; Tina Turner - "You Better Be Good To Me")
American poet ("Versed" - Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2010)
Greek composer
American rock singer (Flamin' Groovies
American NFL football player
Argentine-Venezuelan stage director and arts promoter (co-founder of International Theater Festival of Caracas
American high jumper (Olympic silver 1968)
American rock vocalist
American singer (Ike and Tina Turner Revue; The Sharpees - "Tired of Being Alone")
American actor (Leave it to Beaver - "Wally")
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