What Happened This Day In History ... April 13

1598		The Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots.
1775		Lord North extends the New England Restraining Act to South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. The act forbids trade with any country other than Britain and Ireland.
1861		After 34 hours of bombardment, Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates.
1865		Union forces under Gen. Sherman begin their devastating march through Georgia.
1902		J.C. Penny opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1919		British forces kill hundreds of Indian nationalists in the Amritsar Massacre.
1933		The first flight over Mount Everest is completed by Lord Clydesdale.
1941		German troops capture Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1943		Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial.
1945		Vienna falls to Soviet troops.
1960		The first navigational satellite is launched into Earth's orbit.
1961		The U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa because of apartheid.
1964		Sidney Poitier becomes the first black to win an Oscar for best actor.
1970		An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13, preventing a planned moon landing and jeopardizing the lives of the three-man crew.
1976		The U.S. Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes.
1979		The world's longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours.
Born on April 13
1721		John Hanson, first U.S. President under the Articles of Confederation.
1732		Frederick Lord North, British prime minister (1770-82).
1743		Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States (1801-09)
1852		Frank W. Woolworth, American retailer.
1866		Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American outlaw and leader of the Wild Bunch.
1899		Alfred Butts, inventor of the board game Scrabble.
1906		Samuel Beckett, playwright, Nobel Prize winner (Waiting for Godot).
1909		Eudora Welty, Southern writer (Delta Wedding, The Optimist's Daughter).
1922		John Gerard Braine, British novelist (Room at the Top).
1939		Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, Nobel laureate.