{"id":19843,"date":"2020-04-13T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T03:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=19843"},"modified":"2020-04-13T10:41:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T05:11:26","slug":"history-of-13-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-13-april-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 13 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 13 April<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> &#8211; The Soviet Union accepted responsibility for the World War II murders of thousands of imprisoned Polish officers in the Katyn Forest. The Soviets had previously blamed the massacre on the Nazis.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; Tiger Woods became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament at the age of 21. He also set a record when he finished at 18 under par.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; NationsBank and BankAmerica announced a $62.5 billion merger, creating the country&#8217;s first coast-to-coast bank.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; Dolly, the world&#8217;s first cloned sheep, gave natural birth to a healthy baby lamb.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; Jack Kervorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, MI, to 10 to 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk. Youk&#8217;s assisted suicide was videotaped and shown on &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; in 1998.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; Richard Gordon was charged with trying to extort $250,000 from Louie Anderson in exchange for not telling the tabloid media about Anderson once asking him for sex. Gordon was held without bail pending a court hearing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; It was announced that 69 people had died when the\u00a0<em>Arlahada<\/em>, a Philippine ferry, capsized. 70 people were rescued.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; Twenty-five Hindus were killed and about 30 were wounded when grenades were thrown by suspected Islamic guerrillas near Jammu-Kashir.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; Venezuela&#8217;s interim president, Pedro Carmona, resigned a day after taking office. Thousands of protesters had supported over the ousting of president Hugo Chavez.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2007<\/strong> &#8211; Google announced that it had acquired the advertising service company DoubleClick for $3.1 billion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2016<\/strong> &#8211; The Golden State Warriors ended the regular season with a record of 73-9. This beat the NBA record set by the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The US\u00a0drops\u00a0the largest ever non-nuclear weapon\u00a0on\u00a0Nangarhar Province,\u00a0Afghanistan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday toady<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nat Borchers, American soccer player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Gemma Doyle, Scottish politician<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nellie McKay, British-American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Claudio Bravo, Chilean footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Schalk Burger, South African rugby player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nicole Cooke, Welsh cyclist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Magneto Dayo, American rapper<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Hunter Pence, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jarmo Ahjupera, Estonian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Anders Lindegaard, Danish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Anna Jennings-Edquist, Australian actress, director, and playwright<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Algo K\u00e4rp, Estonian skier<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Cody Nickson, American reality television personality<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Michael Bingham, American-English sprinter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lorenzo Cain, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brandon Hardesty, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Massimiliano Pesenti, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Allison Weiss, American singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Anderson, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Petteri Koponen, Finnish basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Allison Williams, American actress and singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ryan Bailey, American sprinter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dong Dong, Chinese trampolinist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova, Belarusian long jumper<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Josh Reynolds, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Vladislav Yegin, Russian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Anastasija Sevastova, a professional tennis player from Latvia<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Akeem Adams, Trinidadian footballer (d. 2013)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ulises D\u00e1vila, Mexican footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Josh Gordon, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Denis Kudryavtsev, Russian hurdler<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jordan Silk, Australian cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tony Wroten, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00c1ngelo Henr\u00edquez, Chilean footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Elvis Merz\u013cikins, Latvian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kyle Walker-Peters, English footballer, defender<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 13 April 1990 &#8211; The Soviet Union accepted responsibility for the World War II murders of thousands of imprisoned Polish officers in the Katyn Forest. The Soviets had previously blamed the massacre on the Nazis. 1997 &#8211; Tiger Woods became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament at the age of 21. 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