{"id":120918,"date":"2021-04-13T04:48:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=120918"},"modified":"2021-04-13T04:48:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:48:52","slug":"this-day-in-history-april-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/this-day-in-history-april-13\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History: April 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/640\/320\/kevorkianAP.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\"><\/picture>\n<p><strong>On this day, April 13 &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1999: Right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian is sentenced in Pontiac, Mich., to 10 to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder in the lethal injection of a Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease patient. (Kevorkian would serve eight years in prison.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also on this day:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/694940094001\/560a4987-2f0c-4d79-94d3-f38a1d1f5031\/e2d375c1-c148-481d-8b8f-a6bea4a14d7f\/1280x720\/match\/720\/405\/image.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1743:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Thomas Jefferson is\u00a0born in Shadwell in the Virginia Colony.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1861: <\/strong>At the start of the Civil War, Fort Sumter in South Carolina falls to Confederate forces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1943:<\/strong> President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates\u00a0the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of the third American president\u2019s birth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1958: <\/strong>Van Cliburn of the United States wins\u00a0the first International Tchaikovsky Competition for piano in Moscow; Russian Valery Klimov wins the violin competition.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1964:\u00a0<\/strong>Sidney Poitier becomes\u00a0the first black performer in a leading role to win an Academy Award for his performance in &#8220;Lilies of the Field.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>1970:<\/strong> Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, is crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen bursts. (The astronauts would manage to return safely.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/640\/320\/PopeVisit041320-e1586757725267.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\"><\/picture>\n<p>\n      Pope John Paul II is escorted by Rome&#8217;s Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff as they enter a Synagogue in Rome, Italy on April 13, 1986. It was the first recorded visit by a Pope to a Synagogue. (AP Photo)\n      <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1986: Pope John Paul II visits\u00a0the Great Synagogue of Rome in the first recorded papal visit of its kind to a Jewish house of worship.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1992: <\/strong>The Great Chicago Flood takes place as the city\u2019s century-old tunnel system and adjacent basements filled with water from the Chicago River.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992:<\/strong> &#8220;The Bridges of Madison County,&#8221; a romance novel by Robert James Waller, is published by Warner Books.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997: <\/strong>Tiger Woods becomes\u00a0the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament and the first player of partly African heritage to claim a major golf title.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2005: <\/strong>Eric Rudolph pleads\u00a0guilty to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks in back-to-back court appearances in Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/640\/320\/PhileSpectorGettyIMages.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2009: &#8220;Wall of Sound&#8221;\u00a0music producer Phil Spector is found guilty by a Los Angeles jury of second-degree murder in the shooting of actress Lana Clarkson. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2018:<\/strong> President Trump announces\u00a0that the United States, France and Britain\u00a0carried out joint airstrikes in Syria meant to punish President Bashar al-Assad for his alleged use of chemical weapons.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/this-day-in-history-april-13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, April 13 &#8230; 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