Historical Events In April - 13
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
1832 James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (electricstatic generator) on April - 13.
1834 HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia on April - 13.
1842 Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope on April - 13.
1847 Naval Forces begin 5 day battle to capture several towns in Mexico on this day in history.
1847 Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Neth East-Indies) on April - 13.
1849 On this day in history hungarian Republic proclaimed
1849 Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/psychologist on this day in history.
1852 The birth of F.W Woolworth, US founder of the 'Woolworth' stores on this day in history.
1854 On this day in history richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times)
1858 On this day in history john Quinn's Peninsula Hotel destroyed when storm cuts channel through peninsula, creating Toronto Island.
1860 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento Calif on April - 13.
1860 On April - 13 james Ensor, Flemish painter/etcher (De lampenjongen)
1861 On this day in history after 34 hours of bombardment, Ft Sumter surrenders to Confederates
1861 Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces on April - 13.
1863 On this day in history battle of Irish Bend, LA (Ft Bisland)
1864 On this day in history johann Schneider, composer, dies at 74
1865 Sherman's march through Georgia begins on this day in history.
1865 On this day in history sherman's march through Georgia begins Southerners start promising that the South will rise again
1865 On April - 13 battle of Raleigh, NC
1865 Heinrich Reinhardt, composer on April - 13.
1866 Butch Cassidy (Robert Leroy Parker) born on this day in history.
1866 On April - 13 butch Cassidy, [Robert LeRoy Parker], American desperado (Wild Bunch Passage)
1867 On April - 13 sammy Woods, cricket bowler (Aust & Engld Rugby wing-forward)
1868 On this day in history abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
1868 John Blackwood McEwen, composer on this day in history.
1868 On this day in history theodorus, [Kasa], emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide
1869 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse) on April - 13.
1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC on April - 13.
1872 A Roda Roda, writer on this day in history.
1873 Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed) on April - 13.
1873 Theodore Morse, composer on this day in history.
1873 On April - 13 carlo Coccia, composer, dies at 90
1877 A US newspaper, the Fort Benton Record, coins a slogan for the RCMP "They always get their man." Gee I always thought it was a Canadian eh saying on April - 13.
1882 On April - 13 anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia
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