April 13th
Today in America's Present Past
1735 | Citizen politician Isaac Low was born.
1743 | POTUS: Thomas Jefferson was born.
1772 | Clock-making entrepreneur Eli Terry was born.
1796 | The first elephant arrives in the US from India.
1852 | Entrepreneur Frank Winfield Woolworth was born.
1863 | Civil War: Battle of Irish Bend, Louisiana.
1866 | Outlaw Butch Cassidy was born.
1869 | Entrepreneur George Westinghouse patents the steam power brake.
1870 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in New York.
1873 | Civil Rights: The Colfax massacre in Louisiana.
1890 | SCOTUS: Justice Frank Murphy was born in Harbor Beach, Michigan.
1890 | Congress: Speaker Samuel J. Randall died.
1891 | Novelist Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen was born.
1907 | Politician Harold Stassen was born.
1915 | Publisher and entrepreneur William Rockhill Nelson died.
1917 | POTUS: Democrat President Wilson signed Executive Order 2594, the first state bureau in the United States whose primary focus was on propaganda.
1919 | Activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair was born.
1943 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial.
1946 | Musician Al Green was born.
1947 | Poet Rae Armantrout was born.
1958 | Entrepreneur Henry Phillips died.
2008 | Physicist John Archibald Wheeler died.