🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Monday, April 13. Today, we're jumping into some cool stories like the Seventh Crusade, the first Poet Laureate, the first Pony Express, the opening of the MET, Tiger Woods' first win, the first transatlantic flight, and the Mother of All Bombs — all in a quick, easy-to-digest way.
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🚀 Time Machine
-1250
The Seventh Crusade was defeated in Egypt, and Louis IX of France was captured.
-1598
French Huguenots are granted political rights by the Edict of Nantes
-1668
John Dryden, 36, was appointed England's first Poet Laureate by King Charles II.
-1742
George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" was first performed at the New Music Hall in Dublin.
-1860
The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
-1868
The Abyssinian War ended with British and Indian troops taking Magdala and the Emperor Tewodros II's suicide.
-1870
The Metropolitan Museum of Art officially opened in New York City.
-1919
British and Gurkha troops massacred at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar's Jallianwala Bagh, a city park.
-1928
Hermann Köhl and James Fitzmaurice complete the first Europe-to-North America transatlantic flight, departing from Ireland and landing in Canada.
-1997
Tiger Woods, 21, wins the Masters Tournament for the first time by 12 strokes in Augusta, Georgia.
-2017
U.S. forces dropped the "Mother of All Bombs" on a tunnel complex belonging to ISIS in Afghanistan, killing more than 90 militants.
📸 Snapshot
Imperial Japanese Navy Forces in gas masks prepare to advance through the rubble of Shanghai, China, 1937
🗨️ Last Words
“You need not be anxious concerning tonight. It will be very peaceful and quiet with me.”