April
13
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2026

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Rory McIlroy

Rory McIlroy wins the Masters Tournament, becoming just the sixth person to complete the Grand Slam in golf.

Person born this day 2002

Karl Hein (footballer)

Karl Hein, Estonian footballer

Fact 1997

On April 13, 1997, the first episode of the animated series 'The Simpsons' aired on Fox, becoming a cultural phenomenon and the...

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"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

Oscar Wilde

Changed the world 2024

Bondi Junction stabbings

Six people and the perpetrator are killed and twelve others injured in a mass stabbing at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney...

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Oscar Wilde

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

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Oscar Wilde

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."

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Water-Sprinkling Festival

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Water-Sprinkling Festival

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Songkran (Thailand)

Songkran
Songkran (Thailand)

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April 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

April 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Sabás Reyes Salazar

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Sabás Reyes Salazar

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Margaret of Castello

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Margaret of Castello

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Pope Martin I

Christian feast day:
Pope Martin I

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Ida of Louvain

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Ida of Louvain

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Saint Caradoc

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Caradoc

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Dave McGinnis

Dave McGinnis, American football player and coach (born 1951)

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Moya Brennan

Moya Brennan, Irish singer-songwriter and harp player (born 1952)

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Jean Marsh

Jean Marsh, English actress and screenwriter (born 1934)

Died 2025

Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)

Died 2025

Richard Armitage (government official)

Richard Armitage, American diplomat and government official (born 1945)