Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 13

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  Jefferson Memorial
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  Henry IV of France
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  Henry IV of France
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  Ba Cụt
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  Van Cliburn
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  Tiger Woods in 1997
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  George Frideric Handel
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  Damage caused by the Kamień Pomorski homeless hostel fire

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Blurb	Reason
Thingyan begins in Myanmar;	refimprove
Cambodian New Year;	refimprove
Lao New Year in Laos;	refimprove
Songkran (Thailand), Thai New Year's Day	refimprove section
1111 – Henry V, the last ruler of the Salian dynasty, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.	page numbers needed
1873 – In the wake of a disputed election for local offices in Colfax, Louisiana, armed white supremacists overpowered freedmen and the African-American state militia trying to control the parish courthouse, killing over 100 of them.	multiple issues
1919 – The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, a government in exile based in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation of Korea, was formed.	unreferenced section, self-reference
1919 – British Indian Army troops massacred hundreds of unarmed men, women and children who were attending a peaceful gathering at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar.	trivial popular culture listings
1941 – The Soviet Union and Japan signed a neutrality pact that lasted through most of World War II.	refimprove section
1943 – World War II: German news announced the discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in Katyn, Russia, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile and the Soviet Union.	expansion
1945 – World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces captured Vienna in Austria.	refimprove section
1948 – Civil war in Mandatory Palestine: A convoy bringing supplies and personnel to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital was ambushed by Arab forces, leaving 79 people dead.	tagged for primary sources
1984 – Kashmir conflict: Indian forces launched a pre-emptive attack on the disputed Siachen Glacier in Kashmir, triggering a military conflict with Pakistan.	a bunch of inline tags (page/full citation needed)
2015 – Czech politician Vít Jedlička proclaimed the creation of the micronation Liberland on a patch of land between Croatia and Serbia that had been unclaimed by either side due to a territorial dispute.	refimprove section, outdated

Eligible

• 1742 – The first performance of George Frideric Handel's celebrated oratorio Messiah took place in Dublin.
• 1849 – During a closed session of the Diet of Hungary, Lajos Kossuth presented the Hungarian Declaration of Independence from the Habsburg monarchy.
• 1942 – Austrian soldier Anton Schmid was executed for rescuing Jews from the Ponary massacre in Vilnius.
• 1943 – The Neoclassical Jefferson Memorial (pictured) in Washington, D.C., was formally dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
• 1946 – Nakam, a Jewish organization seeking revenge for the Holocaust, attempted to poison thousands of SS prisoners at Langwasser internment camp, but did not kill anyone.
• 1953 – Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale was published as the first work to feature the British spy character James Bond.
• 1953 – The CIA began Project MKUltra, an illegal, covert human research program into mind control.
• 1956 – The Vietnamese National Army captured Ba Cụt, a military commander of the religious sect Hòa Hảo, which ran a de facto state in South Vietnam in opposition to Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm.
• 1973 – Catch a Fire, the landmark reggae album by Bob Marley and the Wailers, was released.
• 1976 – Forty people died in an explosion at an ammunition factory in Lapua, Finland.
• 1997 – In golf, 21-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to win the Masters Tournament, breaking the record for the lowest four-round score.
• 2009 – Twenty-three people died in a fire at a homeless hostel in Kamień Pomorski; it was Poland's deadliest fire since 1980.
• Born/died: | Catherine de' Medici |b|1519| Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington |d|1716| William Garrow |b|1760| Pierre Gaspard Chaumette |d|1794| Arthur Matthew Weld Downing |b|1850| Joe Hewitt |b|1901| Stanisław Ulam |b|1909| Stanley Donen |b|1924| Evelyne Daitz |b|1936| Seamus Heaney |b|1939| Max Mosley |b|1940| Max Weinberg |b|1951| John Swinney |b|1964| Abdul Salam Arif |d|1966| Danie Mellor |b|1971|

Notes

• Henry V of England appears on April 9, so to avoid confusion, Henry V HRE should not appear in the same year.
• Serse appears on April 15 so the Messiah blurb should not appear in the same year.

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• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian forces conducted a surprise attack against a Continental Army outpost at Bound Brook, New Jersey.
• 1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act received royal assent, removing the most substantial restrictions on Catholics in the United Kingdom.
• 1958 – In the midst of the Cold War, American pianist Van Cliburn (pictured) won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
• 2009 – Andrew Hussie's webcomic Homestuck debuted, and concluded on the same day in 2016.
• 2017 – War in Afghanistan: In an airstrike in Nangarhar Province, the U.S. military dropped the most powerful conventional bomb used in combat.