04-13-2005, 05:08 AM
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April 13th
1570 ~ Birthday of Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot conspirator.
1598 ~ King Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
1743 ~ Birthday of Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States.
1826 ~ Death of Franz Danzi, German composer.
1829 ~ The British Parliament granted freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
1861 ~ American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrendered
1892 ~ Birthday of Arthur Travers 'Bomber' Harris, commander of RAF's Bomber Command in World War II.
1943 ~ World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners-of-war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre was announced in Germany.
1987 ~ Portugal and China signed an agreement in which the island of Macao would be returned to China in 1999.
1990 ~ The Soviet Union admitted committing the Katyn Massacre.
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