Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: April 13
April 13, 2024 is the 104th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aries is your zodiac sign. Diamond is your modern birthstone. Opal is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: April 13
- 1204 –Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
- 1613 –Samuel Argall kidnaps Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas in Virginia along the Potomac River.
- 1868 –The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
- 1873 –The Colfax Massacre takes place.
- 1902 –James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
- 1945 –World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.
- 1948 –The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.
- 1958 –During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
- 1976 –The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson’s 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
- 1984 –India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control.
Who were born on April 13?
- 1802 –Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)
- 1841 –Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905)
- 1879 –Edward Bruce, Director art projects (d. 1943)
- 1891 –Nella Larsen, African-American novelist (d. 1964)
- 1897 –Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (d. 1917)
- 1940 –J.M.G. Le Clézio, French novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature.
- 1944 –Brian Pendleton, musician (d. 2001)
- 1957 –Gary Kroeger, American actor
- 1980 –Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress
- 1980 –Quentin Richardson, American basketball player
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