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TODAY IN HISTORY

April 13

Monday, April 13, 2026

Day 102 of 2026 | Week 16 | 257 days until Christmas 🎅

HISTORIC EVENTS

1
2025

Rory McIlroy wins the Masters Tournament, becoming just the sixth person to complete the Grand Slam in golf.

2
2024

Six people and the perpetrator are killed and twelve others injured in a mass stabbing at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney, Australia.

3
2023

The house of Jack Teixeira is raided in an investigation into leaked Pentagon documents; he is arrested on the same day.

4
2014

Three people are killed in a shooting in Overland Park, Kansas.

5
2013

Salam Fayyad resigns as Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority following an ongoing dispute with the President Mahmoud Abbas.

6
2009

A fire destroys a homeless hostel and kills at least 22 people in Kamień Pomorski, Poland.

7
2006

The United Front for Democratic Change's attack on the Chadian capital of N'Djamena is repelled by the Chadian army

8
1997

Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.

9
1996

Two women and four children are killed after Israeli helicopter fired rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.

10
1976

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

1948 Amy Robinson

American writer and actress (Mean Streets)

1948 Brian Griffen

British photographer (album cover art for Depeche Mode

1948 Nam Hae-il

South Korean naval officer and the 25th Chief of Naval Operations of Republic of Korea Navy

1948 Sue Doughty

British politician (MP for Guildford)

1947 František Cipro

Czech soccer forward (SK Slavia Prague 232 games) and manager (SK Slavia Prague

1947 Mike Chapman

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")

1947 Rae Armantrout

American poet ("Versed" - Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2010)

1947 Thanos Mikroutsikos

Greek composer

1946 Roy Loney

American rock singer (Flamin' Groovies

1945 Bob Kalsu

American NFL football player

1945 Carlos Giménez

Argentine-Venezuelan stage director and arts promoter (co-founder of International Theater Festival of Caracas

1945 Ed Caruthers Jr

American high jumper (Olympic silver 1968)

1945 Lowell George

American rock vocalist

1945 Stacy Johnson

American singer (Ike and Tina Turner Revue; The Sharpees - "Tired of Being Alone")

1945 Tony Dow

American actor (Leave it to Beaver - "Wally")

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