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Today in History — April 13

1970

April 13 1970 USA Apollo 13

In April 1970, the United States embarked on its third mission to land humans on the moon with Apollo 13, a mission that would become one of the most harrowing and dramatic episodes in the…

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1976

13 april 1976 USA $2.00 Bill

In 1976, the United States reintroduced the $2 bill as a part of the Bicentennial celebration, marking the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The $2 bill, featuring a portrait of Thomas Jefferson, the…

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Rosa Parks (1913)

American civil rights activist whose refusal to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal event in the civil rights movement.

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