Talk:April 13
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April 13: Thai New Year's Day, Vaisakhi in India.
- 1204 - Fourth Crusade: Forces under Boniface the Marquess of Montferrat and Enrico Dandolo the Doge of Venice captured Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1598 - King Henry IV of France (pictured) issued the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
- 1860 - The Pony Express, the first mail service across the North American continent from the Missouri River to the Pacific coast, was successfully completed for the first time.
- 1919 - British and Gurkha troops opened fire on a peaceful political gathering in Amritsar, Punjab in India, killing hundreds of Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims.
- 1943 - World War II: Germany announced the discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners-of-war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyn Forest Massacre.
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1997 - For the first time in 36 years, two doubleheader baseball games are played in the same city. The San Francisco Giants squared off against the New York Mets while 3,000 miles away, the Oakland Athletics faced the New York Yankees
Three thousand very short miles, I take it, or do I define "same" ideosyncratically? --♥ «Charles A. L.» 01:25, Apr 13, 2004 (UTC)
yeah, that has been bothering me for the last couple of months too ... have managed to rephrase it though to what I think it means. --VampWillow 10:33, 2004 May 11 (UTC)
B. Allan Benson?, NLRB Regional Director - Is this person rally important enough to appear onthis list? Googling found only a couple of entries that were't other wikipedia-type projects (and that is fewer that there are for me!). Proposal to delete therefore. --VampWillow 10:35, 2004 May 11 (UTC)
