My Birthday In History!

April 13th in History
1598: Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots Countdown to the revolution starts
1829: The British Parliament passed the Catholic Emancipation Act, granting freedom of religion
1849: Hungarian Republic proclaimed
1865: Sherman's march through Georgia begins Southerners start promising that the South will rise again
1912: The British Royal Flying Corps (RAF) was created by Royal Charter
1943: FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
1960: France becomes the 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara And atom here, an atom there
1970: The American spacecraft Apollo 13, enroute to the Moon, has an onboard explosion


April 13th birthdays
1519: Catherine de Medicis, Queen consort of Henry II of France
1743: Thomas Jefferson, Former American President
1852: F.W Woolworth, US founder of the 'Woolworth' stores
1902: Philippe de Rothschild, French industrialist
1906: Samuel Beckett, French author
1963: Gary Kasparov, Russian world champion chess player