This Day in History
13 Apr 1055
Bishop Gebhard van Eichstattt named Pope Victor II
13 Apr 1111
After months of controversy Pope Paschal II crowns Henry V the King of Germany and Italy as the Holy Roman Emperor
13 Apr 1180
Diet of Gelnhausen Henry the Lion deprived of the Duchy of Saxony
13 Apr 1241
Battle of Theiss Mongols beat Hungarian King Bla IV
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Japan and USSR sign nonaggression pact
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Apollo 13 oxygen tank explodes
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Tiger Woods wins the Masters Tournament for the first time
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USS Astoria attempts pre-war reconnaissance
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Hitler bluffs from bunker as Russians advance and atrocities continue
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SCLC passes resolution about South Vietnam
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Tiger Woods wins his first Masters
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Thomas Jefferson is born
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Outlaw Butch Cassidy is born
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Handel’s Messiah premieres in Dublin
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Southern writer Eudora Welty is born
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Sidney Poitier wins Best Actor Oscar for Lilies of the Field
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Hail storm kills 1,000 English troops in France
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Mass murderer, Christopher Wilder, commits suicide
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