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Notable anniversaries in history for today: April 13
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Stanley Donen in Columbia, South Carolina, USA; film director/producer (Bedazzled, Damn Yankees).
- 100th: 1924 - Greek plebiscite for a republic.
- 90th: 1934 - 4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Horace Kay; US singer (Tams - "You Lied to Your Daddy").
- 90th: 1934 - US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Brian Pendleton Wolverhampton in West Midlands, England; rocker (The Pretty Things).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Charles Burnett; director (When it Rains, Glass Shield).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Jack Casady in Washington, DC; rock bassist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane).
- 80th: 1944 - South Carolina rejects black suffrage.
- 80th: 1944 - NHL Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Chicago Blackhawks in four games.
- 70th: 1954 - Baltimore Orioles' first game, lose to Detroit Tigers in Detroit 3-0.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Barbara Roche; British Member of Parliament.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Jimmy Destri; rock keyboardist (Blondie - "Heart of Glass", Rapture).
- 70th: 1954 - American physicist Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist.
- 60th: 1964 - 36th Academy Awards - Tom Jones, Sidney Poitier, and Patricia Neal win.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Davis Milton Love III in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; PGA golfer (1987 MCI Heritage).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Doug Strange in Greenville, South Carolina, USA; infielder (Seattle Mariners).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Jose Rijo; pitcher (New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Page Hannah in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Kate Riley - Fame).
- 60th: 1964 - New Zealander Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in one work day.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Sergei Gonchar in Chelyabinsk, Russia; NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals, Olympics-silver-1998).
- 50th: 1974 - Stanley Smith, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts), dies at age 71.
- 40th: 1984 - 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C) - Challenger 5 - returns to Earth.
- 40th: 1984 - Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man", accidentally kills self.
- 40th: 1984 - India beats Pakistan by 58 runs to win first Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah.
- 40th: 1984 - India launches Operation Meghdoot, as most of the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir comes under Indian control.
- 40th: 1984 - On the same date he got his first major league hit 21-years earlier, Pete Rose of the Montreal Expos makes hits 4000th hit.
- 30th: 1994 - Nikolai Afanassyevich Kryuchkov, actor (Telegram), dies at age 83.
- 30th: 1994 - P J Engels, Dutch Member of Parliament (KVP), dies at age 70.
- 30th: 1994 - Presidential guard at Kigali, Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death.
- 30th: 1994 - Robert O van Gennep, Dutch publisher (Guevara, Mandèl), dies at age 56.
- 30th: 1994 - Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czechoslovakian actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at age 72.
- 30th: 1994 - Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at age 64.
- 30th: 1994 - United Arab Emirates' first official ODI, losing to India.
- 30th: 1994 - Ted Turner launches the "Turner Classic Movies" cable TV channel in the US.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Ellen Corby at age 87; actress (Grandma - The Waltons TV show).
- 20th: 2004 - At SBC Park in San Francisco, Barry Bonds hits his 661st career homer to move up to third on the all-time homer run career list.
- 15th: 2009 - Former major-league pitcher (Detroit Tigers, 1976-80) Mark Fidrych dies in an apparent accident at his farm in Northborough, Massachusetts, at age 54.
- 5th: 2019 - First flight of Stratolaunch aircraft from Mojave Air and Space Port, largest aircraft ever built.
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