4 13 Ides of April
Historical Events that occurred on April 13
that Inspired the book “413 Ides of April”
April 413 BC - Battle of Syracuse 415 - 413 BC where Athens lost 200 galleys and 45,000 to 50,000 men in 413 BC. Hippocrates gives "white willow bark" to Nicias before he sets sail to go to war. White Willow bark contains salicin which was the first aspirin. Hippocrates discovered aspirin about 413 BC....if you chew on the bark, it will reduce fever and inflammation. Hippocrates - flu in April 413 BC, during the battle that ended the Egyptian Civilization. Hippocrates of Kos , also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is traditionally referred to as the "Father of Medicine."
April 13, 238 BCE - Statue of Liberates on the Aventine Hill in Rome was dedicated on April 13, 238 BCE. Feast day is celebrated on April 13th. The Ides of April or April 13th is Jupiter sacred day (Feriae Iovi) and Libertas festival day. ≡ Awesome Roman Festivals Calendar. 365 Day Julian Calendar (adducation.info)
April 13, 46 BC - Cato the Younger CATO committing suicide and not dying he rips the bandaged away and pulls out his entrails and then dies on April 13, 46 BC Brutus killed Caesar with the same dagger on March 15, 44 BC. Then on April 14, 43 BC Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed. Brutus then commits suicide, he took his own life by falling on his sword on October 23, 42 BC.
April 13, 585, Saint Hermenegild was executed
April 13, 655, Martin I, pope died in banishment, Roman Catholic Holiday April 13 feast day
April 13, 837, Best view of Halley’s Comet in 2,000 years
April 13, 814, Krum, Khan of Bulgaria dies on April 13, 814 during siege of Constantinople, who briefly threatened the security of the Byzantine Empire.
Jewish Hebrew Islamic Calendar the year 413 AH (1022- 1023), which was the first year the inquisition started they burned 13 so called witches in a circle using stakes. They did not want to shed any blood.
April 13, 1055, Bishop Gebhard van Eichstatt is named Pope Victor II
April 13, 1059, Pope Nicholas II changed the way a Pope is elected, now by cardinal bishops only.
April 13, 1093, Vsevolod I of Kiev dies, after Iziaslav's death, Vsevolod, took the Kievan throne, thus uniting the three core principalities—Kiev, Chernigov and Pereyaslavl
April 13, 1111, Henry V, the King of Germany and Italy is crowned as the Holy Roman Emperor
April 13, 1204, fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople.
April 13, 1229., Archimedes Manuscript found overwritten by a Monks prayer dated on April 13, 1229, which is the 25th anniversary, so that the Crusade attack on Constantinople would not be forgotten.
April 13, 1229, Louis II, Duke of Bavaria is born, ruler of upper Baveria, born in Heidelberg, Germany (d. 1294)
April 13, 1250, the Seventh Crusade was defeated in Egypt and Louis IX was captured.
April 13, 1256, The Grand Union of Augustinian
April 13, 1314 - Jacques de Molay, the Grand Master of the Knights Templar was executed on March 18, 1314, a few weeks later 3 Templar Knights on April 13, 1314, were seen looking through the ashes and found his skull and two femurs.
April 13, 1346, Pope Clement VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy
April 13, 1506, Peter Faber was born and co-founder of the Society of Jesus
April 13, 1519, Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry II of France was born. Along with her connections with Pope Clement VII (Giulio de Medici) who was the pope during the Anglican schism and Pope Leo XI (Alessandro Ottavian de Medici). Catherine de Medici was one of Nostradamus greatest admirers and believed in his prophecies concerning her sons and Mary, Queen of Scots. She promoted Nostradamus and his letters to King Henry II and also promoted Leonardo da Vinci’s work. Her daughter-in-law Mary, Queen of Scots, Catherine de Medici was the mother to 3 Kings; King Francis II, King Charles IX and King Henry III, she became Queen Consort and Queen Regent of France and one of the most powerful women to ever lived.
April 13, 1520, Raphael's final influential masterpiece “The Trasfiguration” is put on display after his death
April 13, 1534, Thomas More was asked to swear his allegiance to the parliamentary Act of Succession. He refused to take the oath of supremacy of the Crown. Henry VIII had More imprisoned in the Tower of London for treason. More was sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.
April 13 1545, A battle of 13 Panokseon turtle warships fought against 700 Japanese ships and none of the turtle ships were lost. They fought in a semi-circle of 6 turtles and a second row of 6 turtles and then a spare ship if anyone was damaged and could not fight. The semi-circle would rotate around to give men on the ships time to rest and to set up cannons for battle as they were fighting the ships would also rotate to fire cannons on both sides of the ship.
April 13, 1570, Guy Fawkes was born who planned to carry out the Gunpowder Plot. One of the greatest acts of treason in English history, Guy Fawkes was part of the group of English Catholics who launched the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. They were set to kill King James I with 36 barrels of gunpowder. However, it was discovered by the authorities, who sentenced him to be hanged.
April 13, 1593, Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford was born, leading adviser of England’s King Charles I. His attempt to consolidate the sovereign power of the king led to his impeachment and execution by Parliament
April 13, 1598, Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, which grants political rights to French Huguenots
April 13, 1605, Boris died. His son Feodor II as pronounced tsar.
April 13, 1657, The Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb installed himself as Emperor of India.
April 13, 1613, Samuel Argall captured Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia, set off with her to Jamestown with intention of exchanging her for English prisoners held by her father.
April 13, 1648, Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon was born, French Roman Catholic mystic and writer, a central figure in the theological debates of 17th-century France through her advocacy of Quietism
April 13, 1697, Captain Kidd was on the Island of Mobila, one of the Comoro Islands when fever struck his crew. Fifty men died in about a week after stopping on April 13, 1697, at the Island of Johanna, they then set sail from the island on April 18th. Henry Avery also liked the Comoro Islands. Captain Kidd departed in a ship early 1698 to go back to New York, where he was arrested at the Governor’s house in Boston. He was then sent to England and was hung on May 23, 1701. Since he was arrested in Boston, everyone thought his enormous treasure was buried nearby. He was hanged for crimes he committed in Moroni on Grand Comoro. A lot of his crew were freemasons. Did these names inspire the names of people and places in the Book of Mormon, and did it inspire Joseph Smith to hunt for Captain Kidd’s treasure? Captain Kidd also inspired Edgar Allan Poe and his brother Henry Poe. Angel Moroni which met Joseph Smith on October 22, 1823. Kidd’s treasure also had stories of murdered guardian ghosts same as in the book of Mormon. Did he get the name Cumorah hill form Captain Kidd as well?
April 13, 1699, The Sikh religion was formalized as the Khalsa - the brotherhood of Warrior Saints, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calender.
April 13, 1721, John Hanson was born, some claim April 14, 1721. On November 5, 1781, the Continental Congress elected Hanson as “President of the United States in Congress assembled”. George Washington does not become president of the USA until 1789
April 13, 1728, Paolo Frisi was born, Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist best known for hydraulics
April 13, 1728, Samuel Molyneux died, British astronomer proof the movement of the earth around the sun and diversion of light from stars.
April 13, 1743, Frederick North was born on April 13, 1734, Frederick North is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1770-1782) during the majority of the American Independence. He is known for losing America.
April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson was born
April 13, 1747, Louis-Philippe-Joseph, duc d’Orléans was born, Bourbon prince who became a supporter of popular democracy during the Revolution of 1789. The cousin of King Louis XVI (ruled 1774–92) and the son of Louis-Philippe.
April 13, 1769, British ship Endeavour with Captain James Cook arrives in Matavia Bay, Tahiti with Botanist Joseph Banks.
April 13, 1771, Richard Trevithick was born, English mechanical engineer and inventor the world’s first steam railway locomotive.
April 13, 1772, Eli Terry was born, American Clockmaker innovator in mass production and received the first US clock patent.
April 13, 1775, Lord North extends the New England Restraining Act to South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. The act forbids trade with any country other than Britain and Ireland.
April 13, 1796, first elephant arrives in US from India
April 13, 1808, Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (invented a telephone-like device), born in Florence, Italy
April 13, 1818, Although, it did not become official until July 4, however on April 13, 1818, a new flag was flown over the U.S. Capitol for the first time. The flag’s thirteen stripes represented the original colonies; its twenty stars symbolized the number of states in the Union at that time. Congressman Peter H. Wendover arranged for the flag to be hoisted over the Capitol in Washington D.C. on the same day it was received there.
April 13, 1829, the Emancipation Act granted freedom to Roman Catholics with the Roman Catholic Relief Act
April 13, 1831, the first US patent for stone crushing machine was issued to Benjamin F. Lodge and Ezekial Cox.
April 13, 1832, James Wimshurst, British designer and inventor (electrostatic generator), born in Poplar, England (d. 1898)
April 13, 1836, AJ Gordon was born, the “Theologian of Divine Healing Movement”
April 13, 1837, Joseph Smith is charged in the Grandison Newell Case, Joseph Smith then departs from Kirtland, Ohio, whereabouts in following days are unknown. Where did he go? Later on, June 5, 1837, charges brought against Joseph Smith by Grandison Newell are dismissed
April 13, 1838, On April 12, 1838, Mormon Church council excommunicated Oliver Cowdery, then on April 13, 1838, the Mormon Church council excommunicated both David Whitmer and Lyman Johnson, Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri.
April 13, 1842, Lord Rosse casts 72” mirror for a telescope
April 13, 1849, Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence
April 13, 1850, Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British mathematician and astronomer, born in County Carlow, Ireland (d. 1917)
April 13, 1844, Edgar Allan Poe published “The Great Balloon Hoax” which was a collection of newspaper articles in the “The Sun” newspaper which was presented as a true story of a gas balloon flying across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days. The first aircraft to carry a human across the Atlantic was not until 1919. The first human to cross the Atlantic in an unpowered balloon was in 1978, and across the Pacific in three days in 1944, which is 100 years after Poe’s story. This is just one of six hoaxes that Edgar Allan Poe wrote. Some say they are April Fool’s Day pranks, which was originally started as a pagan celebration of spring in the middle of April. In 1835 Poe published another hoax, “The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall” of a revolutionary new balloon flight to the moon in 19 days. On April 14, 1849 “Von Kempelen and his Discovery” was a hoax of a German scientist discovering the alchemical process to change lead into gold.
April 13, 1846, the Constitution of the Eielsen Synod Lutheran was adopted
April 13, 1852, Frank W. Woolworth was born, American retailer.
April 13, 1853, Loyola College in Baltimore was chartered
April 13, 1853, Leopold Gmelin died, German chemist who discovered potassium ferrocyanide.
April 13, 1860, 1st Pony Express reaches Eureka California
April 13, 1861, Battle of Fort Sumter, Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates, beginning of Civil War, after 34 hours of bombardment, On April 13, 1861, Irish immigrant and watchmaker Jonathan Dillon, working for the M.W. Galt and Co. jewelers in Washington, D.C., was repairing President Abraham Lincoln's gold pocket watch, engraved in side the watch: "Jonathan Dillon April 13-1861 Fort Sumpter was attacked by the rebels on the above date J Dillon April 13-1861 Washington thank God we have a government Jonth Dillon."
April 13, 1868, Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II commits suicide
April 13, 1869, Steam Power Brake patented by George Westinghouse
April 13, 1889, Herbert Yardley was born, American cryptologist, born in Worthington, Indiana (d. 1958)
April 13, 1873, Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 - 150 blacks killed)
April 13, 1874, James Bogardus died, American inventor cast-iron construction.
April 13, 1883, Alfred Packer is convicted and sentenced to death for killing people and cannibalism, later he is pardoned by Governor of Colorado and dies a free man.
April 13, 1864, Union forces under Gen. Sherman begin their devastating march through Georgia.
April 13, 1886, Elias Howe Jr. has the sewing machine dream... everything was dreamed pushed together in little segments.
April 13, 1888, John Hays Hammond Jr. was born the inventor of radio remote control for modern missile guidance systems.
April 13, 1889, Herbert Osborne Yardley was born. American cryptographer who started the US formal code-breaking efforts during WWI.
April 13, 1892, Robert Watt, Scottish Physicist and Radar Pioneer - A pioneer in radar and radio direction finding, and development of radar location of aircraft. Watson-Watt's research let to the development in the 1920s of the huff-duff directional finder, The military potential of this invention was exploited during World War II, where it helped prevent U-boat attacks. In the late 1930s Watson-Watt led the development of the radar early warning system that was vital to British victory in the Battle of Britain.
April 13, 1897, The Poe Memorial Association was formed at a mass meeting of students at Jefferson Hall at the University of Virginia
April 13, 1899. Alfred Mosher Butts was born and invented the board game Scrabble.
April 13, 1901 - Good Friday. Sponge diver finds the Antikythera computer and 30 Roman statues. Sponge divers pull up the Antikythera treasures and Antikythera computer on Good Friday April 13, 1900.
April 13, 1902, J.C. Penny opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
April 13, 1904, Bethesda Lutheran Homes and Services for the disabled
April 13, 1905, The inauguration of the first President of University of Virginia - Edwin Alderman
April 13, 1905, Bruno Rossi was born. Italian American pioneer in cosmic radiation. He became the grandfather of high energy astrophysics.
April 13, 1906, Samuel Beckett was born on April 13, 1906, was an Irish novelist, playwriter and poet. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. During WWII after the Nazi German occupation of France Beckett joined the French Resistance as a courier and was nearly caught by the Gestapo on several occasions.
April 13, 1908, ban lifted on dancing card playing and theatergoing
April 13, 1909, Stanisław Marcin Ulam is born on April 13, 1909 - American - Polish Mathematician and Nuclear Physicist (Manhattan Project, H-bomb)
April 13, 1911, The US House of Representatives votes to direct elections of senators to Congress, which steps towards direct democracy.
April 13, 1912, the Royal Flying Corps was established as a separate branch of the armed forces by King George.
April 13, 1913, Anarchist Rafael Sancho Alegre fired three shots at King Alfonso in Madrid.
April 13, 1913, Statue of Thomas Jefferson unveiled at the Jefferson Memorial Building in St. Louis.
April 13, 1913, BASF -The first edition of the company newspaper is published to coincide with the opening of the building on April 13, 1913. At this BASF location , Fritz Haber a German chemist, worked on synthesizing ammonia. Later Haber received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. Haber, a known German nationalist, is also considered the "father of chemical warfare" for his years of pioneering work developing and weaponising chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I. He later develop Zyklon B, used for the extermination of more than 1 million Jews in gas chambers in the greater context of the Holocaust.
April 13, 1914, In a basement home research laboratory at 5500 block of 33rd St., NW, not far from Chevy Chase Circle. Anton Dilger proudly listed himself as a physician in the Washington DC City Directory. For 3 years, Anton and his brother Tony were incubating vials of anthrax and glanders, which they tested on guinea pigs and then handed them off to Abeteilung IIIB agents from Baltimore on a weekly basis. Those agents then carried the cultures to ports up and down the east coast where horses and mules, which the Allies had purchased from American companies, were being loaded onto ships for transport to Europe. Hired stevedores would secretly inject the animals or contaminate their food supplies with the deadly germs. Anthrax outbreak during war with soldiers getting sores on face from shaving with horsehair shaving brushes. Ironically, they did not know (or did they know) that a month later on May 15, 1914, the US government opened a site of chemical weapons testing that is less than 3 miles down Nebraska Ave at the American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue the location of the cleanup is at 4825 Glenbrook Road, in the Spring Valley section of Northwest D.C.
April 13, 1915, Thomas Jefferson statue unveiled at the University of Virginia days after the sculptor Karl Bitter was killed by a vehicle in New York City
April 13, 1916, the first hybrid seed corn was sold by Funk Brothers Seed Co. of Bloomington, Illinois.
April 13, 1917, Johann Harders missionary to the Apache’s died
April 13, 1917 – Woodrow Wilson with executive order to establish CPI Committee on Public Information program to support US participation in World War I. The CPI was the first state bureau covering propaganda in the history of United States.
April 13, 1918, fire in a "Hospital for the insane" in Norman Ok. A total of 37 boys strapped to the beds as they burn to death.
April 13, 1918, Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov died on April 13, 1918. Imperial Russian general, who was accused of attempting to overthrow the provisional government established in Russia after the Revolution in 1917 and to replace it with a military dictatorship.
April 13, 1918, Eugene V. Debs was not just the President of the ‘American Railway Union’ but also one of the founders of ‘Industrial Workers of the World’, an international labor organization. Regarded as one of the most popular American politicians, Debs was jailed on 13th April 1919 for protesting against the participation of United States in World War I.
April 13, 1919, Jallianwala Bagh Massacre - Crowds of peaceful people had gathered for religious festivities & to protest the unfair Imperial Rowlatt Act - British troops open fire on demonstrators killing 350 - 1000 people and 1,500 injured in Amritsar, India.
April 13, 1920, Helen Hamilton - 1st woman appointed US Civil Service Commissioner
April 13, 1921, Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers Party
April 13, 1923, Adolf Hitler’s Munich Speech
April 13, 1925, Elwood Haynes died. American inventor who built the first successful gasoline powered automobiles.
April 13, 1925, Henry Ford starts airplane freight operations between Detroit and Chicago. This is the first regularly scheduled commercial freight operation in the US.
April 13, 1926, Martin Louis Ernest Luecke president of Concordia College died
April 13, 1926, Lincoln Ellsworth and Roald Amundsen departed from Oslo to be the first to fly over the North Pole.
April 13, 1928, Ernest Kilbourne missionary died
April 13, 1928- First trans-Atlantic flight. Europe – US (Fitzmaurice von Hunefeld-Kohl)
April 13, 1929, Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht proposed for the restructuring of preparation payments which would have had Germany pay $20 - $24 billion to the US over 58 years. That night Schacht said the terms were unacceptable.
April 13, 1932, President Hindenburg passed an emergency decree Article 48, which ordered the SA, SS and all forces of the Nazi Party to dissolve immediately.
April 13, 1933 1st flight over Mount Everest by Lord Clydesdale
April 13, 1933, The first aircraft with a steam engine made its first Flight in Oakland California. (A Travel Air biplane)
April 13, 1934, 4.7 million US families receive welfare payments
April 13, 1934, US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act
April 13, 1934, H. P. LOVECRAFT said, “The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.”
April 13, 1934 Congress moved to bar other nations from further US loans until they had paid debts from WWI. The Johnson Debt Default Act
April 13, 1936, Loannis Metaxas proclaims himself dictator of Greece
April 13, 1936, Edition of Time Magazine first picture of Adolf Hitler on the cover of the magazine, the article warns that last month the League of Nations had voted Germany guilty of violating the Locarno Pact and the meeting was adjourned without taking any action against them. Warns of his growing Army and his Navy in the making. “And once again Germany was virtually friendless in an angry world.” And they did nothing to stop him.
April 13, 1939, German-Jewish scientist Albert Einstein arrived in the US.
April 13, 1941, Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed
April 13, 1941, Annie Jump Cannon died, she was the first to seriously attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures. Listed nearly 230,000 stars including 300 she discovered.
April 13, 1943, Nazis discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn
April 13, 1943, US president Franklin Roosevelt Dedicated Jefferson Memorial
April 13, 1944, South Carolina rejects black suffrage
April 13, 1944, New Zealand and Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
April 13, 1944, Transport #71 departs Drancy France internment camp taking 1,500 French Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp (91 survived)
April 13, 1945, The liberation of Jews - 2500 Jews saved by US troops from a train going to the death camp.
April 13, 1945, Hitler hears about FDR’s death in the early morning hours. Hitler’s last attempt to inflate morale, Hitler’s youth taking 5,000 to 6,000 Jewish prisoners to a large barn and then they set it on fire, they are shot as they try to escape by digging underneath.
April 13, 1945, the first day of being the 33rd President of USA, Truman on Friday April 13, 1945, had a meeting with James Byrnes and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, which informed President Truman of the US's development of an atomic bomb. Truman said, “I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.”
April 13, 1946, Jewish employees of a bakery in Nuremberg placed arsenic in the bottom of thousands of loaves of bread to be given to a prisoner-of-war camp which housed members of the German SS. All 2283 SS at Stalag 13 became sick within a week, but none fatally
April 13, 1946, Arzamaz-16 a secret center for the construction of nuclear weapons was established by the Soviet government in Sarov
April 13, 1946, Rikichi Ando the last Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan was captured and charged with war crimes.
April 13, 1947, The site of the future Headquarters of the United Nations was dedicated in New York City
April 13, 1948, was an unforgettable day in the history of PAF. Father of the Nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who had envisioned the then RPAF to be one of the strongest Air Forces of the world, visited RPAF Training School Risalpur.
April 13, 1948, Hadassah Convoy Massacre - 75 Jewish doctors and scientists are ambushed on their way to Mount Scopus
April 13, 1949, The Nuremberg Trials ended on April 13, 1949, with 19 top aids to Adolf Hitler receiving up to 25 years for their part in war crimes against humanity
April 13, 1953, Synod theological training program in Tokyo
April 13, 1953, CIA director Allen Dulles launches Mind-Control Program and LSD Program Project Artichoke - MKUltra The highly controversial and illegal program used various methods, including the forced exposure to certain substances to manipulate captives into giving up vital information against their will. The program was only halted in 1973, and the majority of files relating to it were destroyed.
April 13, 1953, Ebb Cade dies, Cade is an African American construction worker at the secret weapons production plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. On March 24, 1945, he got into an automobile accident on his way to work. Over the next few weeks, he was kept at the hospital and injected (unknowingly) with 4.7 micrograms of plutonium, which is a highly lethal agent being purified to make atomic bombs. He was the first of 18 people to be tested unknowingly with different amounts of plutonium in Oak Ridge. Dr Joseph Howland, an Army doctor in 1974 told investigators that he had administered the injection.
April 13, 1954, Bill Haley recorded the song Rock Around the Clock
April 13, 1954, Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist and Father of the Atomic Bomb, is accused of being a communist. Later the US Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr Robert Oppenheimer, He died on February 18, 1967 from throat cancer. “However, it is my judgment in these things that when you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.” —J. Robert Oppenheimer, April 13, 1954
April 13, 1955, Albert Einstein, on Wednesday, April 13, 1955, was in pain and holding his left abdomen. He says that “he does not want a doctor to tell him when it’s time he will say when it’s time”. and then passes out on Friday April 15, he refuses surgery and dies on April 18, 1955, on Monday.
April 13, 1959, US air force launches Discoverer II into polar orbit
April 13, 1959, Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (Failed)
April 13, 1959 Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics from voting for communists
April 13, 1960, Transit 1B First navigational satellite placed into earth orbit
April 13, 1960, France becomes the 4th Nuclear Nation by exploding an atomic bomb in the Sahara
April 13, 1961, On April 12,1961 Soviets launched Yuri Gagarin, the first human to orbit the earth, this event is the event that pushed JFK's space program, which was pushed into action on April 13, 1961, out of reaction to the soviet's launch.
April 13, 1961, an attempted coup against Antonio de Oliveira Salazar failed in Portugal
April 13, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr was arrested on Good Friday April 12, 1963. "On April 13, 1963, the Birmingham campaign was launched, this would prove to be the turning point in the war to end segregation in the South. See the letter sent to JFK on April 13, 1963
April 13, 1963, Russian chess player Garry Kasparov was born on April 13, 1963, is the first World Chess Champion to be beaten at a chess game by a computer on May 11, 1997.
April 13, 1964, The Beatles became the first band to hold the top five spots on the US singles chart.
April 13, 1965, Beatles record “Help” in one night with 13 takes.
April 13, 1970, Apollo 13 aborted the mission and barely made it back home.” Houston, we’ve have a problem here” as oxygen tank explodes in route to the Moon
April 13, 1971, American Patsy O’Connell Sherman was awarded a patent for their invention of stain repellent Scotchgard. Main chemical is PFAS Perfluoroalkyl which causes cancer. DuPont and 3M Teflon used Scotchgard to create gum wrappers, teflon - nonstick cookware, and stain-resistant fabric. Spread worldwide in drinking water which got into human blood and mothers’ milk during nursing. So bad that dead birds were seen falling from the sky after they flew over their manufacturing plants. PFAS can be released into the environment from PTFE-based products, especially during manufacture, use, and disposal. "The study estimates that at least one type of PFAS – of those that were monitored – could be present in nearly half of the tap water in the U.S. Furthermore, PFAS concentrations were similar between public supplies and private wells."
April 13, 1972, the US Senate voted and approved the War Powers Act, which limits the power the President has to commit American forces without Congressional approval.
April 13 1974, ‘Westar 1’ was the first satellite that was launched by the collaboration of the space agency ‘NASA’ and ‘Western Union’ on 13th April 1974. This satellite worked exceptionally for a good 36 years and phased out in 1983.
April 13, 1976 - $2 bills were released into circulation.
April 13, 1976, Apple Computer was founded on April 1, 1976, and 12 days later they released the personal computer on April 13th, Apple I went on sale in July 1976 for $666.66. Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple, is a freemason. On April 13, 1976, Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stock to Jobs and Wozniak for $2,300.00 which is worth more than $200 billion today.
April 13, 1978, The world’s longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours.
April 13, 1980, US and allies boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow in protest for the Russian invasion into Afghanistan.
April 13, 1981, On April 12, 1981, twenty years after Yuri Gagarin’s historic first man to orbit the Earth spaceflight, the first Space Shuttle is launched. The Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off on April 12, 1981 with crew members, Commander John Young and Robert Crippen, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base on April 14, 1981.,
April 13, 1983, US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
April 13, 1985, TASS denounces US boycott of Moscow Olympics
April 13, 1986, Pope John Paul II visited a Jewish synagogue in Rome, meets Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff
Pope John Paul II in Syria, he was the first pope to enter a mosque when he visited the tomb of John the Baptist.
Pope John Paul II’s mother died when he was 8 on April 13, 1929.
Pope John Paul II was the first pope to visit Greece in 1300 years; the last pope was Pope Constantine I in 710.
April 13, 1988, Singing Revolution - The Popular Front of Estonia was founded.
April 13, 2001, on Good Friday, Pope John Paul II ‘s apology for past actions against the church. “The 13 Offences” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I the spiritual leader of the worlds Orthodox Christians has accepted an apology from Pope John Paul II
April 13, 1994, Presidential guard at Kigali, Rwanda chops 1,200 church members to death
April 13, 1994, Asteroid 7373 Takei discovered and named after Star Trek actor George Takei
April 13, 1994, Srinivasa Ramanujan in a hospital room is withering away from flu-like symptoms dreaming of math equations and after his dream he goes up to a chalk board and writes the equation down and during the day he goes over and proves the equation to be correct. One of the equations is the inverse of pi, 1/pi which was called reverse pi nicked named 4.13
April 13, 1998, Dolly, who was the first mammal to be cloned, gave birth to her lamb on 13th April 1998 in a natural process. The birth of her cute little new born, named Bonnie, was an important event for scientists dealing with the cloning process.
April 13, 2002, In Caracas, Chávez supporters surrounded the presidential palace, seized television stations and demanded his return. Carmona resigned the same night. The pro-Chávez Presidential Guard retook Miraflores without firing a shot, leading to the removal of the Carmona government and the re-installation of Chávez as president. April 13 will remain in our memory as the day when the Venezuelan people defeated the coup d'état and rescued Commander Chávez, along with democracy and the Bolivarian Revolution. On this Day of National Dignity, we celebrate the victory that can never be taken away again.
April 13, 2003, MICHAEL JORDAN said, “Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you’re in a fight.”
April 13, 2008, John Archibald Wheeler died on April 13, 2008. He is known for nuclear fission, wormhole, super space, quantum foam, black hole, he also worked on the Manhattan project with Dupont, as part of DuPont’s design staff.
April 13, 2012, Meeting East meets West in Istanbul on Friday, April 13, 2012, about Iran's nuclear development.
April 13, 2013, the US is put on Defcon alert with North Korean video showing them launching 4 nuclear missiles on the US. going to Washington DC, California, Hawaii, and Colorado Springs
April 13, 2017, The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar, Afghanistan
April 13, 2017, Disney World confirms that versions of Club 33 will be installed at all 4 parks this fall. Club 33 is a private club located in the heart of the New Orleans Square section of Disneyland. Originally maintained as a secret feature of the park, the entrance of the club was formerly located next to the Blue Bayou Restaurant at 33 Royal Street. The second Club 33 has opened in the Tokyo Disneyland.
April 13, 2019, The world’s largest plane, The Stratolaunch, had its first flight from the Mojave Desert in California. The airplane was built to launch rockets into orbit while high in the atmosphere. Its wingspan was bigger than a football field.
April 13, 2023, Sam Altman, the CEO of the company behind CHATGPT. Time Magazine on April 13, 2023, list Sam Altman in the 100 Most Influential People of 2023 “Sam foresaw that the exponential curve of technological progress would culminate in the most powerful tool ever created: artificial general intelligence (AGI). He saw a tool that could do immense good but, in the wrong hands, could be a destructive weapon. Sam co-founded OpenAI to responsibly bring AGI to the world. Initially, he established OpenAI as a nonprofit. When he couldn’t raise enough money as a nonprofit, he structured the company as a capped-profit model, forgoing ownership. OpenAI went on to develop ChatGPT, a revolutionary tool, launched in November, that I used to edit this very piece. If anyone knows where this is going, it’s Sam. But Sam also knows that he doesn’t have all the answers. He often says, “What do you think? Maybe I’m wrong?” Thank God someone with so much power has so much humility.” Altman is a prepper, he said in 2016: "I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to."
April 13, 2023, On the morning of April 13, 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Teixeira at his home in Dighton, HIs home was raided in an investigation into leaked Pentagon documents, where he was later arrested on the same day.
April 13th Festivals
Romans dedicated a Statue of Liberatas in the temple on the Aventine, to Jupiter. During the day of liberates the roman slaves could buy their freedom, paying back taxes to the state and to their owners. Once their debit has been paid then they would get their head shaved and put on a pil… a velt cap on their head. And then buy new clothes all at the same time.
Festival of Fordicidia and feast of Flora goddess of flowers the start of the maypole dance. Virgin girls that had reached puberty would dance in white around a pole that was huge pole that was phallic symbol of fertility
April 13 is Thai New Year – Songkran is a time for cleaning and renewal. Was originally set by astrological calculations. Date was calculated on a purely solar basis. The date symbolizes change or a move, in this case the move of the sun into the Aries zodiac. Celebration of throwing water is believed to bring good luck and prosperity for the New Year. It is a symbol of washing all of the bad away and is sometimes filled with fragrant herbs when celebrated in the traditional manner Cambodia Loas
Vaisakhi marks the first day of the month of Vaisakh and is traditionally celebrated annually on 13 April, It is seen as a spring harvest celebration primarily in Northern India. Vaisakhi as a major Sikh festival marks the birth of the Khalsa order by Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of Sikhism, on 13 April 1699. Later, Ranjit Singh was proclaimed as Maharaja of the Sikh Empire on 12 April 1801 (to coincide with Vaisakhi), creating a unified political state.
Vaisakhi was also the day when Bengal Army officer Reginald Dyer orders his troops to shoot into a protesting crowd, an event which would come to be known the Jallianwala Bagh massacre; the massacre proved influential to the history of the Indian independence movement.
The birth of Khalsa is celebrated by the Sikhs every Baisakhi Day and on April 13, 1999, marked the 300th anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh’s gift of Panth Khalsa to all Sikhs
National Thomas Jefferson Day is April 13th.
Christian feast day - Hermenegild - Saint Hermenegild died April 13, 585, Ida of Louvain died in 1300, Pope Martin I, and Eastern Orthodox Liturgics .
Something to think about…….
Every single living thing on Earth, whether that is humans or plants growing in the ground, derives from one common ancestor. This is known as LUCA, an acronym for the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Luca was not the first form of life; it was the organism from which all living organisms have descended. Nevertheless, scientists think living organisms may have existed way before Luca. We estimate that Luca roamed the Earth around 4.2 billion years ago. If our time estimate is close to the truth, things such as the genetic code, protein translation, and life itself must have evolved rapidly, almost right after the Earth was formed.
April 13, 1314 BC - Moses departs Egypt - 21 Nissan which is April 13, 1314 BCE
April 13, 2029, on Friday, - Apophis will pass by so close to Earth it will be between our satellites and the earth. Satellites are about 36,000 kilometers from earth and Apophis will fly by within 31,000 kilometers. Hitting a satellite or the earth’s gravitational pull could change its trajectory for its next pass. “According to NASA, an asteroid, 99942 Apophis., will come within 20,000 miles of the Earth on April 13, 2029. This might not seem like a big deal, but it's actually extremely close in relation to space. Although it's not expected to actually hit our planet, the closeness of the asteroid could cause damage on its surface — the gravity of Earth might cause avalanches on Apophis.”
April 13, 2036, on Easter Sunday Apophis. This is the day that some scientists predict Apophis will hit Earth at 4:13 PM in Jerusalem & Istanbul, which is 9:13 AM Eastern Standard Time.
April 13, 2036, Easter Sunday - same as Nissan 16, 5796 in the Jewish Hebrew calendar. This is the first day of Omer and Pesach II. Passover starts on 15 Nisan and ends on 21 Nisan, which is also in the Sunni sect of Islam it is the day of Ashurah and they fast for two days on the 10th and 11th of Muharram.
Three possible dates for Jesus’ crucifixion Friday 4-3-33, Friday 4-13-36, Friday 3-30-36,
According to NASA’s list of Eclipse there was one on April 3, 33 which most people believe to be the day Jesus was crucified. It occurred at 4:51 PM in Jerusalem which is in line with the biblical accounts. However, this date does not match up with Passover.
However, in the year 36 there was an eclipse also on what could have been the first Easter. If Jesus was crucified on Friday, April 13, 36, then on Sunday April 15, 36 by NASA’s List of Eclipse there was an eclipse that occurred in the early morning hours on Easter at the time of the resurrection. This date does match up with Passover.
The Roman Libertas holiday is the same as the Greek Eleutheria holiday and the same as the Egyptian Ishtar. Ishtar is pronounced Easter and some think that the early Christians called the resurrection “Easter” because it fell on the pagan holiday for Ishtar which is April 13th. So, they could remember the date easily when it happened. This is not saying that the Christian Easter is the same as Ishtar, it’s just that it happened on the same day, which would be in the year 36, Ishtar was originally the celebration of Ishtar the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex.
In the King James Version of the Bible in the Book of Wisdom of Solomon 4:13 - “He being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time.”
The Dead Sea shoreline is the lowest dry land in the world, and it fluctuates at 413 meters below sea level.
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
George Orwell (Opening line in “1984”)
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Think of that with respect to time travel.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
“In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.