From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Mon Apr 13 2009 - 16:52:45 EDT
April 13 in History: Ethiopia and Eritrea border defined by Int'l Court
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April 13 in History
1059
Pope Nicholas II issues a decree on the election of popes, declaring that
only cardinals will be allowed to vote.
1695
Death of French poet Jean de La Fontaine (born 1621). He collected the
fables of Aesop and others in his Fables (1668-94).
1732
Birth of Lord North, British prime minister from 1770-82. His tax on tea
provoked the Boston Tea Party and his policies ultimately led to Britain's
loss of America.
1743
Birth of Thomas Jefferson (died 1826), American statesman and third
president (1801-09). He drafted the Declaration of Independence.
1771
Birth of Richard Trevithick, British inventor and designer of steam engines.
He was one of the main contributors to the development of the railway steam
engine.
1906
Birth of Samuel Beckett (died 1989), Irish playwright, novelist and critic.
He won the 1969 Nobel Prize for literature. His works include Waiting for
Godot, End Game, Krapp's Last Tape and Happy Days.
1915
The French and Chinese administrations agree to join forces to suppress
revolutionary movements in China and Viet Nam, especially along the
Sino-Vietnamese border.
1919
British troops shoot dead 380 unarmed protesters and injured 1,200 others in
a shooting that is known now as the Amritsar Massacre. Thousands of
protesters and villagers gathered in Punjab, British-colonialised India, for
a Sikh religious festival.
1963
Birth of Gary Kasparov, Russian and world chess champion.
1964
Sidney Poitier becomes the first black actor to win an Oscar when he picks
up the best actor award for Lilies of the Field.
1967
In the American war, Vietnamese liberation forces repel Operation Junction
City mounted by the US-Sai Gon troops along Highway 22 in southern Tay Ninh
Province, inflicting 14,000 casualties.
1995
Ukraine agrees to close the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, the site of an
accident in 1986 that resulted in massive radioactive pollution, by 2000.
2002
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the Netherlands defines the
1,000km shared border between Ethiopia and Eritrea, ending a dispute that
sparked a 1998-2000 war between the two African nations.
2005
Eric Rudolph pleads guilty to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996
Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks, saying he picked the Summer Games
to embarrass the US government in front of the world.
2007
Unidentified gunmen kill top Nigerian Muslim hard-liner, Mahmud Adam, as he
led morning prayers along with his second-in-command in the northern city of
Kano. - AP/REUTERS/VNS
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