April 13
1598 - The Edict of Nantes gave religious tolerance to the Huguenots in France.
1743 - Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was born in Shadwell in the Virginia Colony.
1861 - At the onset of the U.S. Civil War, Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell to Confederate forces.
1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of the third American president’s birth.
1953 - “Casino Royale,” Ian Fleming’s first book as well as the first James Bond novel, was published in London by Jonathan Cape Ltd.
1964 - Sidney Poitier became the first African American to win the Academy Award for best actor for his performance in "Lilies of the Field."
1970 - Apollo 13 announced "Houston, we've got a problem," when an oxygen tank burst on the way to the moon.
1975 - Civil War began in Lebanon when gunmen killed four Christian Phalangists who retaliated by killing 27 Palestinians.
1999 - Right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Michigan, to 10 to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder in the lethal injection of a Lou Gehrig’s disease patient. (Kevorkian ended up serving eight years.)
2005 - A defiant Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks in back-to-back court appearances in Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta.
2009 - Music producer Phil Spector was found guilty by a Los Angeles jury of second-degree murder in the shooting of actor Lana Clarkson (he was later sentenced to 19 years to life in prison; he died in prison in January 2021).
2012 - Kwangmyngsng-3, a North Korean Earth observation satellite, exploded shortly after its launch. The U.S. and other countries called the launch a violation of United Nations Security Council rules.
2013 - All 108 passengers and crew survived after a new Lion Air Boeing 737 crashed into the ocean and snapped in two while attempting to land on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
2018 - President Donald Trump announced that the United States, France and Britain had carried out joint airstrikes in Syria meant to punish President Bashar Assad for his alleged use of chemical weapons.
2018 - President Donald Trump issued a pardon to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, suggesting that the former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney had been “treated unfairly” by a special counsel.
Birthdays
20 - Olivia Sanabia (actress)
24 - Audreyana Michelle (model)
30 - Hannah Marks (actress)
31 - Jessica Vanessa (actress)
32 - Erin Lim (TV host)
33 - Lodovica Comello (actress)
35 - Allison Williams (actress)
41 - Nellie McKay (singer)
42 - Courtney Peldon (actress)
43 - Kelli Giddish (actress)
45 - Kyle Howard (actor)
47 - Glenn Howerton (actor)
48 - Lou Bega (singer)
50 - Julia Rose (actress)
53 - Ricky Schroder (actor)
59 - Caroline Rhea (actress/comedian)
59 - Page Hannah (actress)
60 - Garry Kasparov (chess grandmaster)
66 - Saundra Santiago (actress)
66 - Gary Kroeger (comedian)
73 - William Sadler (actor)
73 - Ron Perlman (actor)
77 - Al Green (singer)
86 - Edward Fox (actor)
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Today in Sports History - April 13
1927 - The Ottawa Senators defeated the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.
1940 - The New York Rangers defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs to win the Stanley Cup.
1944 - The Montreal Canadiens defeated the Chicago Blackhawks to win the Stanley Cup.
1949 - The Minneapolis Lakers defeat the Washington Capitols in six games to win the Basketball Association of America championship. (The BAA would merge with the National Basketball League to form the NBA later this year.)
1957 - The Boston Celtics won their first NBA Championship. They beat the St. Louis Hawks 125-123 in Game 7.
1963 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) got his first hit in the major leagues.
1972 - Major league baseball owners and players agreed to not make up the games lost to the players strike. It was the first strike in the history of major league baseball. Players had walked off the field 13 days earlier.
1975 - Jack Nicklaus wins his fifth Masters.
1984 - Pete Rose becomes the first player in National League history to record 4,000 career hits.
1986 - Jack Nicklaus, at age 46, won his sixth Masters and a record 18th major championship.
1986 - The Boston Celtics establish an NBA record by finishing the regular season with a home record of 40-1.
1997 - Tiger Woods became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament, age 21, and the first African American golfer to win a major championship.
1997 - The Hartford Whalers play their final NHL game.
2003 - Mike Weir became the first Canadian to win the Masters Tournament.
2004 - Barry Bonds hit his 661st career home run, passing Willie Mays to take third place on the all-time list.
2011 - A federal jury in San Francisco convicted baseball slugger Barry Bonds of a single charge of obstruction of justice, but failed to reach a verdict on the three counts at the heart of allegations that he’d knowingly used steroids and human growth hormone and lied to a grand jury about it. (Bonds’ conviction for obstruction was ultimately overturned.)
2014 - Bubba Watson wins his second Masters.
2016 - The Golden State Warriors finished the regular season with the NBA's best ever record at 73-9, breaking the prior record of 72-10 set by the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls.
2016 - Kobe Bryant, playing in the final NBA game of his 20-year career, scored 60 points.
2019 - San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich surpasses Lenny Wilkens as the NBA's all-time winningest coach with 1,413 wins.
1598 - The Edict of Nantes gave religious tolerance to the Huguenots in France.
1743 - Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was born in Shadwell in the Virginia Colony.
1861 - At the onset of the U.S. Civil War, Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell to Confederate forces.
1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of the third American president’s birth.
1953 - “Casino Royale,” Ian Fleming’s first book as well as the first James Bond novel, was published in London by Jonathan Cape Ltd.
1964 - Sidney Poitier became the first African American to win the Academy Award for best actor for his performance in "Lilies of the Field."
1970 - Apollo 13 announced "Houston, we've got a problem," when an oxygen tank burst on the way to the moon.
1975 - Civil War began in Lebanon when gunmen killed four Christian Phalangists who retaliated by killing 27 Palestinians.
1999 - Right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Michigan, to 10 to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder in the lethal injection of a Lou Gehrig’s disease patient. (Kevorkian ended up serving eight years.)
2005 - A defiant Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks in back-to-back court appearances in Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta.
2009 - Music producer Phil Spector was found guilty by a Los Angeles jury of second-degree murder in the shooting of actor Lana Clarkson (he was later sentenced to 19 years to life in prison; he died in prison in January 2021).
2012 - Kwangmyngsng-3, a North Korean Earth observation satellite, exploded shortly after its launch. The U.S. and other countries called the launch a violation of United Nations Security Council rules.
2013 - All 108 passengers and crew survived after a new Lion Air Boeing 737 crashed into the ocean and snapped in two while attempting to land on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
2018 - President Donald Trump announced that the United States, France and Britain had carried out joint airstrikes in Syria meant to punish President Bashar Assad for his alleged use of chemical weapons.
2018 - President Donald Trump issued a pardon to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, suggesting that the former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney had been “treated unfairly” by a special counsel.
Birthdays
20 - Olivia Sanabia (actress)
24 - Audreyana Michelle (model)
30 - Hannah Marks (actress)
31 - Jessica Vanessa (actress)
32 - Erin Lim (TV host)
33 - Lodovica Comello (actress)
35 - Allison Williams (actress)
41 - Nellie McKay (singer)
42 - Courtney Peldon (actress)
43 - Kelli Giddish (actress)
45 - Kyle Howard (actor)
47 - Glenn Howerton (actor)
48 - Lou Bega (singer)
50 - Julia Rose (actress)
53 - Ricky Schroder (actor)
59 - Caroline Rhea (actress/comedian)
59 - Page Hannah (actress)
60 - Garry Kasparov (chess grandmaster)
66 - Saundra Santiago (actress)
66 - Gary Kroeger (comedian)
73 - William Sadler (actor)
73 - Ron Perlman (actor)
77 - Al Green (singer)
86 - Edward Fox (actor)
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Today in Sports History - April 13
1927 - The Ottawa Senators defeated the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.
1940 - The New York Rangers defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs to win the Stanley Cup.
1944 - The Montreal Canadiens defeated the Chicago Blackhawks to win the Stanley Cup.
1949 - The Minneapolis Lakers defeat the Washington Capitols in six games to win the Basketball Association of America championship. (The BAA would merge with the National Basketball League to form the NBA later this year.)
1957 - The Boston Celtics won their first NBA Championship. They beat the St. Louis Hawks 125-123 in Game 7.
1963 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) got his first hit in the major leagues.
1972 - Major league baseball owners and players agreed to not make up the games lost to the players strike. It was the first strike in the history of major league baseball. Players had walked off the field 13 days earlier.
1975 - Jack Nicklaus wins his fifth Masters.
1984 - Pete Rose becomes the first player in National League history to record 4,000 career hits.
1986 - Jack Nicklaus, at age 46, won his sixth Masters and a record 18th major championship.
1986 - The Boston Celtics establish an NBA record by finishing the regular season with a home record of 40-1.
1997 - Tiger Woods became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament, age 21, and the first African American golfer to win a major championship.
1997 - The Hartford Whalers play their final NHL game.
2003 - Mike Weir became the first Canadian to win the Masters Tournament.
2004 - Barry Bonds hit his 661st career home run, passing Willie Mays to take third place on the all-time list.
2011 - A federal jury in San Francisco convicted baseball slugger Barry Bonds of a single charge of obstruction of justice, but failed to reach a verdict on the three counts at the heart of allegations that he’d knowingly used steroids and human growth hormone and lied to a grand jury about it. (Bonds’ conviction for obstruction was ultimately overturned.)
2014 - Bubba Watson wins his second Masters.
2016 - The Golden State Warriors finished the regular season with the NBA's best ever record at 73-9, breaking the prior record of 72-10 set by the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls.
2016 - Kobe Bryant, playing in the final NBA game of his 20-year career, scored 60 points.
2019 - San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich surpasses Lenny Wilkens as the NBA's all-time winningest coach with 1,413 wins.
