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On This Day In History for April 13, 2016

This is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining in 2016.

* It was on this date in 1111 that Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

* That same date in 1742, George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.

* Also today in 1849, Hungary becomes a republic.

* The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded on this date in 1870.

* That same date in 1902, James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

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

* CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra on this date in 1953.

* That same date in 1960, The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system.

* 46 years ago today, an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.

* April 13, 1974, Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.

* The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson’s 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration on this date in 1976.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* Guy Fawkes, the English soldier who planned the Gunpowder Plot, born on this date in 1570.

* The inventor of the Screw-pile lighthouse was born on this date in 1780 – happy birthday to Alexander Mitchell.

* Italian engineer Antonio Meucci was born today in 1808.

* Also born today in 1850, Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, the Irish astronomer.

* Frank Winfield Woolworth, the founder of the F.W. Woolworth Company was born April 13, 1852.

* Sharing that same birth date in 1866, Butch Cassidy.

* The man who created the game of Scrabble, Alfred Mosher Butts was born today in 1899.

* Robert Orville Anderson, the founder of the Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. would have been 99 today.

* Agent Maxwell Smart, Actor Don Adams was born today in 1923.

* Another actor, better known as Wally Cleaver, Tony Dow turns 71.

* Hellboy, Ron Perlman, is 66 today.

* and rounding out or birthdays with another actor (and director) Ricky Schroder is 46.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 13, 2016

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* 18 – Skaifey (Anthony)

* 19 – Amanda (SusietheGeek’s daughter & Geek in Training)

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