It's Friday the 13th, and interesting things have happened on other ones. Find out what happened on any date, with library and online resources! Other April 13ths over the centuries:
1970: "Houston, we've had a problem here," Mission Commander James A. Lovell reports the Apollo 13 oxygen tank explosion.
1964: First African-American Best Actor Oscar—Sydney Poitier, for his role building a chapel in Lilies of the Field.
1997: Tiger Woods@21 wins first major (Masters) by record 12 strokes in Augusta, GA.
1360: Hail kills 1,000 English soldiers in Chartres, France on “Black Monday,” the storm's devastation a factor in the Hundred Years’ War between England & France.
1939: Oscar winning Wuthering Heights premieres, starring Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, and David Niven.
1943: James Boarman, Fred Hunter, Harold Brest, Floyd G. Hamilton unsuccessfully attempted to escape Alcatraz.
1861: Fort Sumter surrenders, beginning the Civil War (the only casualty was a Confederate horse.) Before the Union forces were allowed to leave for the north, soldiers fired a 100-gun salute, killing one soldier outright, mortally wounding another in an accidental cartridge explosion.
Happy Birthdays to: President Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the Declaration of Independence (1743); F.W. Woolworth, pioneer of the discount variety store a century before the emergence of retail giants like Wal-Mart & Target (1852); Butch Cassidy, last of the great western train-robbers, Beaver, Utah Territory (1866); Southern writer Eudora Welty, Jackson, Mississippi (1909)
RIP: His Imperial Highness Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (1981);Annie Jump Cannon (1941), instrumental in creating the Harvard Classificaiton Scheme for cataloging stars.
Use newspapers like the New York Times Historical, on the Research Database list, a QuickLink from the Case Catalog page. Search 4/13/1907 & "Front Page" option to find the same range of local & national items we might read over the ages:
WOMEN'S POKER GAME RAIDED; Police Drop In on a Party Playing Just Like Men.
CATS ANNOY YALE MEN; Students Shoot at Them, Are Arrested -- Mayor Sympathetic.
MAMMOTH FOUND IN GLACIER; May Figure at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
RUSHING ALASKA RAILWAY; Guggenhelm's Road to be Completed as Rapidly as Possible.
H.H. ROGERS'S TALK STIRS WASHINGTON; Roosevelt's Friends Find Evidence of the "Rich Men's Conspiracy."
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