Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 13

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 * 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian forces conducted a surprise attack against a Continental Army outpost at Bound Brook, New Jersey.
 * 1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act received royal assent, removing the most substantial restrictions on Catholics in the United Kingdom.
 * 1849 – During a closed session of the Diet of Hungary, Lajos Kossuth presented the Hungarian Declaration of Independence from the Habsburg monarchy.
 * 1942 – Austrian soldier Anton Schmid was executed for rescuing Jews from the Ponary massacre in Vilnius.
 * 1953 – Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale was published as the first work to feature the British spy character James Bond.
 * 1953 – The CIA began Project MKUltra, an illegal, covert human research program into mind control.
 * 1956 – The Vietnamese National Army captured Ba Cụt, a military commander of the religious sect Hòa Hảo, which ran a de facto state in South Vietnam in opposition to Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm.
 * 1958 – In the midst of the Cold War, American pianist Van Cliburn won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
 * 1973 – Catch a Fire, the landmark reggae album by Bob Marley and the Wailers, was released.
 * 1976 – Forty people died in an explosion at an ammunition factory in Lapua, Finland.
 * 1997 – In golf, 21-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to win the Masters Tournament, breaking the record for the lowest four-round score.
 * 2009 – Twenty-three people died in a fire at a homeless hostel (aftermath pictured) in Kamień Pomorski; it was Poland's deadliest fire since 1980.
 * Born/died: | Catherine de' Medici |b|1519| Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington |d|1716| William Garrow |b|1760| Pierre Gaspard Chaumette |d|1794| Henry De la Beche |d|1855| Stanisław Ulam |b|1909| Stanley Donen |b|1924| Seamus Heaney |b|1939| Max Mosley |b|1940| Annie Jump Cannon |d|1941| Max Weinberg |b|1951| Abdul Salam Arif |d|1966| Danie Mellor |b|1971| Günter Grass |d|2015