April 13

1613 – Samuel Argall, having captured Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia, sets off with her to Jamestown with the intention of exchanging her for English prisoners held by her father.

1777 – 4000 British and Hessian troops under the command of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis stage a surprise attack on a Continental forces of 500 troop at an outpost at Bound Brook, New Jersey and inflict heavy casualties as the outnumbered troops retreat before reinforcements arrive and retake the post.

1861 – After hours of artillery bombardment, Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.

1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Jefferson’s birth.

1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind control program Project MKUltra.

1958 – American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

1960 – Transit 1-B, the world’s first navigation system satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

1970 – While enroute to the Moon, an oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, damaging the Apollo command and service module Odyssey and causing the landing mission to change to one of survival.

1976 –  As part of the U.S. bicentennial celebration, the Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill with the portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the 233rd anniversary of his birthday.

1976 – 40 workers are killed and another 60 injured in an explosion at the Lapua, Finland ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in that nation.

1997 – Tiger Woods, at 21 years old, becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.

2017 – The US drops a GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb, the largest ever non-nuclear weapon in an airstrike against an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province tunnel complex in Achin District, Afghanistan.