April 13th, 1942

Born on April 13th, 1942

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What happened on April 13th, 1942?

April 13th, 1942

Austrian soldier Anton Schmid was executed for rescuing Jews from the Ponary massacre in Vilnius.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Schmid

What else happened on April 13th?

April 13th, 2017

War in Afghanistan: In an airstrike in Nangarhar Province, the U.S. military dropped the most powerful conventional bomb used in combat.

April 13th, 2009

Andrew Hussie's webcomic Homestuck debuted, and concluded on the same day in 2016.

April 13th, 1997

In golf, 21-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to win the Masters Tournament, breaking the record for the lowest four-round score.

April 13th, 1973

Catch a Fire, the landmark reggae album by Bob Marley and the Wailers, was released.

April 13th, 1958

In the midst of the Cold War, American pianist Van Cliburn won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

April 13th, 1956

The Vietnamese National Army captured Ba Cụt, a military commander of the religious sect Hòa Hảo, which ran a de facto state in South Vietnam in opposition to Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm.

April 13th, 1953

The CIA began Project MKUltra, an illegal, covert human research program into mind control.

April 13th, 1946

Nakam, a Jewish organization seeking revenge for the Holocaust, attempted to poison thousands of SS prisoners at Langwasser internment camp, but did not kill anyone.

April 13th, 1943

The Neoclassical Jefferson Memorial (pictured) in Washington, D.C., was formally dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.

April 13th, 1849

During a closed session of the Diet of Hungary, Lajos Kossuth presented the Hungarian Declaration of Independence from the Habsburg monarchy.

April 13th, 1829

The Roman Catholic Relief Act received royal assent, removing the most substantial restrictions on Catholics in the United Kingdom.

April 13th, 1777

American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian forces conducted a surprise attack against a Continental Army outpost at Bound Brook, New Jersey.

April 13th, 1742

The first performance of George Frideric Handel's celebrated oratorio Messiah took place in Dublin.

April 13th, 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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 13th

Born on April 13th, 1942

82

Bill Conti

American composer and conductor

*April 13th, 1942, Providence

75

Walter Hitschler

German politician (1942-2017)

*April 13th, 1942, Zweibrücken †July 5th, 2017, Zweibrücken

82

Xavier Lapeyre

French racing driver

*April 13th, 1942, Toulouse

82

Ricardo Blázquez Pérez

Spanish cardinal

*April 13th, 1942, Villanueva del Campillo

82

Ataol Behramoğlu

Turkish writer

*April 13th, 1942, Çatalca

62

Otto Marchi

Swiss writer (1942-2004)

*April 13th, 1942, Lucerne †December 26th, 2004, Khao Lak

73

Rusty Jones

American jazz drummer

*April 13th, 1942, Cedar Rapids †December 9th, 2015, Chicago

50

Lester Wilson

American dancer and choreographer; recording artist (1942-1993)

*April 13th, 1942, New York City †February 14th, 1993, Los Angeles

Same Day
Who's birthday is on April 13th?

65

Kaci Kullmann Five

Norwegian politician (1951-2017)

*April 13th, 1951, Oslo †February 19th, 2017, Oslo

71

Joachim Streich

German association football player and manager

*April 13th, 1951, Wismar †April 16th, 2022, Leipzig

24

Khea

Argentine rapper

*April 13th, 2000, Virreyes

78

Al Green

American singer

*April 13th, 1946, Forrest City

83

Paul Sorvino

American actor (1939–2022)

*April 13th, 1939, Brooklyn †July 25th, 2022, Jacksonville

74

Seamus Heaney

Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

*April 13th, 1939, Castledawson †August 30th, 2013, Dublin

74

Lutz Wicke

German professor

*April 13th, 1943, Herrnhut †June 14th, 2017, Berlin

74

William Sadler

American actor

*April 13th, 1950, Buffalo

30

Kasper Antonsen

Badminton player

*April 13th, 1994, Aarhus

80

Susan Davis

American politician

*April 13th, 1944, Cambridge

29

Uliana Podpalnaya

Badminton player

*April 13th, 1995, Barnaul

84

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

French writer and Nobel Prize winner

*April 13th, 1940, Nice

61

Garry Kasparov

Russian chess grandmaster and activist

*April 13th, 1963, Baku

81

Tim Krabbé

Dutch journalist and novelist

*April 13th, 1943, Amsterdam

62

Mathias Hönerbach

German association football player and manager

*April 13th, 1962, Cologne

42

Jean-Marc Reiser

French comics creator

*April 13th, 1941, Réhon †November 5th, 1983, 4th arrondissement of Paris

69

Alfred Wiedensohler

German physicist

*April 13th, 1955, Jülich

81

Lawrence G. Paull

Production designer, art director (1938-2019)

*April 13th, 1938, Chicago †November 10th, 2019, La Jolla

87

Edward Fox

British actor (born 1937)

*April 13th, 1937, Chelsea

49

Lou Bega

German singer

*April 13th, 1975, Munich

Same year
Born in 1942

81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, North London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

81

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

69

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

*June 7th, 1942, Qasr Abu Hadi †October 20th, 2011, Sirte

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

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No: With 365 days 1942 is a normal year and no leap year.

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