On April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was born in Shadwell in the Virginia Colony.

In 1861, Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell to Confederate forces in the first battle of the Civil War.

In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial in Washington on the 200th anniversary of his birth.

In 1964, Sidney Poitier became the first Black performer to win an Academy Award for acting in a leading role for “Lilies of the Field.”

In 1997, Tiger Woods, at 21, became the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia.

In 2009, at his second trial, music producer Phil Spector was found guilty by a Los Angeles jury of second-degree murder in the shooting of actor Lana Clarkson. (Later sentenced to 19 years to life, he died in prison in January 2021.)