On This Day for April 13 - Alfred Dreyfus imprisoned on Devils Island, Thomas Jefferson is featured, and more

Created: 2020-04-13 10:02 Updated: 2020-04-13 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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April 13

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Thomas Jefferson

FEATURED EVENT

1895

Alfred Dreyfus imprisoned on Devils Island

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2015: German writer Günter Grass—who was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and was known as the literary spokesman for Germans who grew up in the Nazi era and survived World War II—died at the age of 87. [Take our literature quiz.]

2002: The military coup that a day before had installed businessman Pedro Carmona Estanga as interim president of Venezuela collapsed this day, and the following morning Hugo Chávez was restored to the presidency. [ Sort fact from fiction in our South America quiz.]

1997: Tiger Woods won the Masters Tournament, becoming the first golfer of African American descent and the youngest player to place first in the event. [ Test your knowledge of golf.]

1964: For his performance in Lilies of the Field (1963), Sidney Poitier became the first African American to win the Academy Award for best actor. [ How much do you know about the Academy Awards?]