13 April 2025 (MIA) 

1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.

1849 – Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence in a closed session of the National Assembly.

1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

1906 – Macedonian playwright Anton Panov is born in Star Dojran. Most of his works drew inspiration from the hardships of economic immigrants from Macedonia. He died in 1968.

1909 – The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

1913 – The first-ever movie screening takes place in Bitola.

1919 – Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India; at least 1200 are wounded.

1941 – A Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.

1943 – World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.

1945 – World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.

1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system.

1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

1972 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People’s Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.

1975 – An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.

1987 – Portugal and China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.

2003 – A bus near the Vale of Tempe, Greece was involved in a major vehicle accident with a truck and multiple cars, leaving 21 students in the 10th grade of Makrochori, Imathia High School dead and 9 injured during their return to their homes from a trip to Athens.

2012 – Macedonian writer and academic Tashko Georgievski dies in Skopje, aged 77. He is one of the most prolific authors, whose works have been translated in several languages.

2017 – The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.