1976 U.S.A. $2.00 bill 13th April 1976 : $2.00 bill issued nationwide with portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the front and John Trumbles Portrait of the declaration on the back . Banks experienced long queues by those collectors who believed the bills would appreciate in value
1987 U.S.A. Mikael Gorbachev 13th April 1987 : President Reagan once again invited the Soviet Leader Mikael Gorbachev to talks in Washington but once again The Soviet Leader has declined the invitation.
13th April 1989 : Israeli soldiers carry out a raid on a West Bank village leaving at least six Palestinians dead, this is part of the continuing attempts to quell the Palestinian uprising.
1999 U.S.A. Jack Kervorkian 13th April 1999 : Jack Kervorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Mich., to 10 to 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk, 52 who was in the final stages of ALS ( Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis sometimes called Lou Gehrig's Disease ). The assisted suicide in 1998 was videotaped and shown on the November 23, 1998 broadcast of "60 Minutes". Kevorkian served eight years of the prison sentence for second-degree murder. He was released on June 1, 2007, on parole due to good behavior
13th April 1970 : An explosion caused by an exploding Oxygen tank on Apollo 13 forced the astronauts to abandon their mission to the moon and head home, they were nearly at the moon when the problem occurred and they were forced to turn back .
1931 U.S.A. Chicago Tunnel Fire 13th April 1931 : 10 men killed in Chicago tunnel fire, the cause of the explosion was spontaneous combustion and is the worst underground disaster in Chicago History
1943 U.S.A. Alcatraz Attempted Escape 13th April 1943 : Four convicts attempted to escape from the prison at Alcatraz today. Two were drowned in San Francisco Bay after being shot and the other two were recaptured.
1949 Germany Nuremberg Trials 13th April 1949 : The Nuremberg Trials ended with 19 top aids to Adolf Hitler receiving up to 25 years for their part in war crimes against humanity.
13th April 1965 : The Midwest continued it's problem weather after a large number of tornadoes on Palm Sunday rivers are now at flood conditions along the Mississippi affecting Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and North Dakota with mass evacuations and already a number of deaths caused by the flooding.
1975 Lebanon Beirut Street Battle 13th April 1975 : At least 17 people are left dead and 30 wounded in an ambush by right-wing Lebanese forces on a bus carrying Palestinians in Beirut. This signals the beginning of 15 years of civil war in Lebanon between The Maronite Christian groups and the Muslim militias.
2005 U.S.A. Eric Rudolph 13th April 2005 : Eric Rudolph ( also known as the Olympic Park Bomber ), pleads guilty to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in Atlanta Georgia. Rudolph pleaded guilty to numerous federal and state homicide charges and accepted five consecutive life sentences in exchange for avoiding a trial and the death penalty.
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