Today is Sunday, April 13, on 103 of 2025. 262 days remain in the year.
Today in history:
On April 13, 1997, Tiger Woods, 21, became the young golf to win the Masters tournament in Augusta, Georgia, finishing a record of 12 blows ahead of Tom Kite in second place.
Also on this date:
In 1743, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was born in Shadwell in the Virginia neighborhood.
In 1861, Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell to the confederate forces in the first battle of the Civil War.
In 1873, the members of the Pro-Blanca Blanca League attacked the members of the black state militia who defended a court in Colfax, Louisiana; Three white men and so many axis 150 black men were killed in what is known as the Colfax massacre, one of the worst acts of violence of the era of reconstruction.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Memorial Jefferson in Washington on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
In 1964, Sidney Paitier became the first black artist to win an academy prize for acting in a lead role for his performance in “Lilies of the Field.”
In 1999, the defender of the right to die, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, was a sentence in Pontiac, Michigan, 10 to 25 years in prison for second degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a patient with IF, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. (Kevorkian finally turned eight years before being placed on probation).
In 2005, a challenging Eric Rudolph declared himself guilty of carrying out deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and three other attacks in appearances in the consecutive court in Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta.
In 2009, in his second judgment, the musical producer Phil Spector was declared guilty by a jury of second degree murder angels in the shooting of actor Lana Clarkson. (Later sentenced to 19 years of life, Spector died in prison in January 2021).
In 2011, a federal jury in San Francisco condemned by the touch of baseball Barry Bonds of a single position of obstruction of justice, but failed to reach a verdict on the three positions in the heart of the accusations that he used steroids knowingly and the hormone of human growth and lied to a large jury about it. (The condemnation of bond obstruction was exaggerated in 2015)
In 2016, the Golden State Warriors became the first team of 73 Victories of the NBA by beating the Memphis Grizzlies 125-104, breaking the 72 victories record established by the Chicago Bulls in 1996.
In 2017, Pentagon officials said that US forces hit a complex of tunnels of the Islamic State group in eastern Afghanistan with the GBU-43/B Moab “mother of all bombs”, the largest nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the military.
Today’s birthday:
- Green’s singer is 79 years old.
- Actor Ron Perlman is 75 years old.
- The singer Pabo Bryson is 74 years old.
- The drummer of the band leader Max Weinberg is 74 years old.
- Chess Garry Kasparov’s great teacher is 62 years old.
- The golf fame hall, Davis Love III is 61.
- The actor-comedian Caroline Rhea is 61 years old.
- Actor Rick Schroder is 55 years old.
- Actor Glenn Hookton is 49 years old.
- Actor Kelli Giddish is 45 years old.
- The rapper of singer Ty Dolla $ Ign is 43.
- Actor Allison Williams is 37 years old.
