Historical Events on April 13.

1.   1772, 13th April: Warren Hastings was appointed chairman of the Bengal Committee of the East India Company.

2.  1849, 13th April: Hungary became a republic.

3.  1919, 13th April: Jallianwala Bagh massacre killed 379 and injured 1,200 people.

4.  1939, 13th April: Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) was formed for an armed struggle with the British in India.

5.  1960, 13th April: The US launched Transit 1-B, the world’s first navigation satellite.

6.  1984, 13th April: Indian cricket team won the Asia Cup for the first time by defeating Pakistan by 58 runs in Sharjah.

7.  1997, 13th April: Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to win a Masters Tournament.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on April 13.

1.   1743: Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.

2.  1895: V. R. Khanolkar, an Indian Pathologist. “Father of Pathology and Medical Research in India.”

3.  1905: Bruno Rossi, an Italian experimental physicist. 

4.  1906: Samuel Beckett, an Irish novelist and playwright.

5.  1930: Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram, an Indian poet, and lyricist.

6.  1940: Najma Heptulla, an Indian politician and Governor of Manipur.

7.  1956: Satish Kaushik, an Indian film director, producer, and actor.

8.  1963: Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on April 13.

1.   1973: Balraj Sahni, an Indian film and stage actor.

2.  1993: Wallace Stegner, an American novelist.

3.  1999: Sheik Chinna Moulana,  a legendary nadhaswaram player in the Carnatic tradition.

4.  2008: John Wheeler, an American theoretical physicist.

5.  2015: Gunter Grass, a German-Kashubian novelist.