At the moment is Sunday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2025. There are 262 days left within the yr.
At the moment in historical past:
On April 13, 1997, 21-year-old Tiger Woods turned the youngest golfer to win the Masters Event in Augusta, Georgia, ending a report 12 strokes forward of Tom Kite in second place.
Additionally on this date:
In 1743, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of america, was born in Shadwell within the Virginia Colony.
In 1861, Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell to Accomplice forces within the first battle of the Civil Warfare.
In 1873, members of the pro-white, paramilitary White League attacked Black state militia members defending a courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana; three white males and as many as 150 Black males have been killed in what is named the Colfax Bloodbath, one of many worst acts of Reconstruction-era violence.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt devoted the Jefferson Memorial in Washington on the two hundredth anniversary of his beginning.
In 1964, Sidney Poitier turned the primary Black performer to win an Academy Award for appearing in a number one function for his efficiency in “Lilies of the Field.”
In 1999, right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Michigan, to 10 to 25 years in jail for second-degree homicide for administering a deadly injection to a affected person with ALS, also referred to as Lou Gehrig’s illness. (Kevorkian finally served eight years earlier than being paroled.)
In 2005, a defiant Eric Rudolph pleaded responsible to finishing up the lethal bombing on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three different assaults in back-to-back court docket appearances in Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta.
In 2009, at his second trial, music producer Phil Spector was discovered responsible by a Los Angeles jury of second-degree homicide within the taking pictures of actor Lana Clarkson. (Later sentenced to 19 years to life, Spector died in jail in January 2021.)
In 2011, A federal jury in San Francisco convicted baseball slugger Barry Bonds of a single cost of obstruction of justice however failed to succeed in a verdict on the three counts on the coronary heart of allegations that he knowingly used steroids and human progress hormone and lied to a grand jury about it. (Bonds’ conviction for obstruction was overturned in 2015.)
In 2016, the Golden State Warriors turned the NBA’s first 73-win staff by beating the Memphis Grizzlies 125-104, breaking the 72-win report set by the Chicago Bulls in 1996.
In 2017, Pentagon officers stated U.S. forces struck a tunnel complicated of the Islamic State group in japanese Afghanistan with the GBU-43/B MOAB “mother of all bombs,” the biggest non-nuclear weapon ever utilized in fight by the navy.
At the moment’s Birthdays:
- Singer Al Inexperienced is 79.
- Actor Ron Perlman is 75.
- Singer Peabo Bryson is 74.
- Bandleader-drummer Max Weinberg is 74.
- Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov is 62.
- Golf Corridor of Famer Davis Love III is 61.
- Actor-comedian Caroline Rhea is 61.
- Actor Rick Schroder is 55.
- Actor Glenn Howerton is 49.
- Actor Kelli Giddish is 45.
- Singer-rapper Ty Dolla $ign is 43.
- Actor Allison Williams is 37.
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