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Today in History

Monday, 13 April 2026

2009

Citi Field opens to almost 44,000 people in a game lost by the New York Mets 6-5 to the San Diego Padres.

1997

Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win The Masters Tournament.

1992

The Great Chicago Flood.

1987

Portugal and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.

1984

India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control.

1983

Harold Washington is elected as the first African-American mayor in Chicago's history.

1976

The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.

1975

Bus Massacre in Lebanon: Attack by the Phalangist resistance kill 26 militia members of the P.F.L. of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.

1974

Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.

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.

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