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Events on April 13

• 1598 The French King Henry IV signs the Edict of Nantes. After 36 years of conflict, he grants the Huguenots free exercise of religion in Catholic France and thereby ends the Huguenot Wars.
• 1784 The premiere of Friedrich Schiller's tragedy Intrigue and Love takes place in Frankfurt am Main. The play receives highly mixed reviews.
• 1841 After a construction period of only three years, the Court Theatre built by Gottfried Semper is inaugurated in Dresden. Carl Maria von Weber's Jubilee Overture and Goethe's Torquato Tasso are performed.
• 1928 The Germans Hermann Köhl and Baron Ehrenfried Günther von Hünefeld, together with the Irish copilot James Fitzmaurice, complete the first transatlantic flight from east to west. 36 hours after taking off from Baldonnel in Ireland, they land in their Junkers W 33 Bremen on the Canadian island of Île Greenly.
• 1962 Manfred Weissleder opens the Star-Club at Große Freiheit 39 in Hamburg's St. Pauli district. During its seven years of existence, numerous rock stars perform there as guests. Above all, the Beatles' performances contribute to the club's worldwide fame.
• 1964 At the 1964 Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first black actor to receive an Oscar. He is honored for his performance in the comedy Lilies of the Field.
• 1970 An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft explodes two days after launch on its way to the Moon. The mission is aborted and a rescue operation is initiated to bring the three astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise back to Earth unharmed.
• 1978 The German Federal Constitutional Court declares unconstitutional the amendment to the Military Service Act with which the exemption from conscription for conscientious objectors was abolished.
• 1983 The Federal Constitutional Court halts the planned census in the Federal Republic of Germany by means of a temporary injunction until the final judgment. The census ruling is issued on 15 December.
• 1990 The Soviet Union admits the Katyn massacre. President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev confirms the Soviet leadership's decision to kill under Josef Stalin.
• 1997 The American golfer Tiger Woods wins The Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia with 18 under par and a 12-stroke lead over the runner-up. He is the youngest player to win the U.S. Masters and the first with African or Asian roots.
• 2019 The American aircraft Scaled Composites Stratolaunch makes its maiden flight. It is intended to serve as a future launch platform for carrier rockets and spaceplanes.

Born on April 13

• 1872 Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer and publicist
• 1892 Arthur Harris, British Royal Air Force officer and Marshal of the Royal Air Force
• 1901 Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst
• 1940 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, French-Mauritian writer and Nobel laureate
• 1950 Ron Perlman, American actor
• 1960 Olaf Ludwig, German racing cyclist
• 1960 Rudi Völler, German footballer
• 1961 Uwe Hübner, German television and radio presenter
• 1963 Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player
• 1990 Finch, German musician

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „13. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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