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April 13

Events

1992
Tunnel ruptures flooding downtown Chicago basements.

1992
Princess Anne files for an uncontested divorce from Mark Phillips.

1988
First patent for an animal species: The "Harvard mouse" is patented. Its altered genes make it highly susceptible to cancer and therefore useful in research.

1981
Jimmy's World: Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke wins a Pulitzer for her story of an eight-year-old heroin addict. It was later revealed that she made the story up.

1979
Yusufu Lule is sworn in as president of Uganda after overthrowing the eight-year rule of Idi Amin.

1976
The new U.S. $2 bill is placed in circulation.

1970
Houston, we've had a problem here: An Apollo 13 oxygen tank explodes, endangering the crew and causing the planned moon landing to be aborted.

1964
First black to win a Best Actor Oscar: Sidney Poitier wins for Lilies of the Field.

1943
The Jefferson Memorial, in Washington D.C., is dedicated.

1925
First regularly scheduled commercial aviation: Henry Ford opens a freight line between Detroit and Chicago.

1860
First run of the Pony Express arrives in Sacramento, California. It had departed from St. Joseph, Missouri on April 3.

1844
Edgar Allen Poe's Balloon Hoax: The famous writer's fictional account a balloon crossing of the Atlantic is published

1752
First fire insurance company is organized, in Philadelphia.

Birthdays

1946
Al Green, American soul singer, songwriter, Let's Stay Together (#1, 1971) and I'm Still In Love With You (1972).

1942
Bill Conti, composer, created the music for the Rocky movies.

1937
Edward Fox, British actor. Film: The Day of the Jackal (1973, the Jackal) and Never Say Never Again (1983, James Bond's superior 'M').

1935
Lyle Waggoner, American actor. TV: Wonder Woman (Steve Trevor).

1919
Howard Keel (Harold Keel), American actor. TV: Dallas (Clayton Farlow).

1899 d. 1993
Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect, inventor of the game Scrabble (1932).

1892 d. 1973
Sir Robert Watson-Watt, British inventor. He is considered the inventor of RADAR (1935), although others had also done research on it. He was the first to create a working system.

1866 d. 1909
Herman Long, American baseball player. He holds the record for most career errors (1,037 errors during 1,877 games from 1889-1904). In 1900 he led the National League in home runs.

1866 d. ????
Butch Cassidy (George LeRoy Parker), American outlaw, boasted of never having killed a man. He and the Sundance Kid were reported killed in 1908 by Bolivian troops after a robbery, but his sister claimed he lived in the U.S. until 1937.

1852 d. 1919
Frank W. Woolworth, American businessman, founder of Woolworths (1879). His first store failed within three months, but he tried again and the rest is history.

1795 d. 1869
James Harper, American publisher, co-founded Harper & Row, Publishers.

1750 d. 1831
John Trumbull, American poet.

1743 d. 1826
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President (1801-09), 2nd U.S. Vice-President (1797-1801), author of the Declaration of Independence, and the first U.S. Secretary of State (1790-93). Both he and John Adams died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

1570 d. 1606
Guy Fawkes, English conspirator. He is known for his part in the Gunpowder Plot, in which he and his fellow conspirators attempted to blow up King James I and the English Parliament. The were caught and executed.

Deaths

1925 b. 1857
Elwood Haynes, American automobile pioneer. He developed the first U.S. automobile (1894). He also discovered tungsten chrome steel (1881) and patented stainless steel (1919). (source: Myth Information: More Than 590 Popular Misconceptions, Fallacies, and Misbeliefs Explained!)

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