TODAY IN HISTORY - APRIL 13TH

1743 – Thomas Jefferson, American lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826) is born.

1852 – Frank Winfield Woolworth, American businessman, founded the F.W. Woolworth Company (d. 1919) is born.

1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

1899 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game designer, created Scrabble (d. 1993) is born.

1902 – James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

1917 – Robert Orville Anderson, American businessman, founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (d. 2007) is born.

1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.

1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.

1951 – Max Weinberg, American drummer (E Street Band and Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band) is born.

1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.

1958 – Cold War: American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.

1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.

1974 – Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.

1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.

1992 – The Great Chicago flood devastates much of central Chicago.

1997 – Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.