On April 13, 2009, former Major League Baseball all-star pitcher Mark “The Bird” Fidrych is found dead at the age of 54 following an accident at his Massachusetts farm involving a Mack truck he was working on.

In a groundbreaking moment for golf, Tiger Woods clinched the 1997 Masters Tournament, making history as the youngest golfer to achieve this prestigious title.

On April 13, 1978, opening day at Yankee Stadium, the New York Yankees give away thousands of Reggie! bars to fans, who naturally toss them onto the field after star outfielder Reggie Jackson homers in his first at-bat.

On April 13, 1964, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his role as a construction worker who helps build a chapel in Lilies of the Field (1963).

In a groundbreaking moment for Hollywood and the civil rights movement, Sidney Poitier made history in 1964 by becoming the first Black performer to win an Academy Award for Best Actor.

On April 13, 1953, literary history was made with the publication of "Casino Royale,” the inaugural novel in what would become the iconic James Bond series, crafted by British author Ian Fleming.

On April 13, 1943, President Franklin D.

During World War II, representatives from the Soviet Union and Japan sign a five-year neutrality agreement.

German pilot Hermann Köhl, Irish aviator James Fitzmaurice and Baron Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld, the expedition’s financier, complete the first Europe-to-North-America transatlantic flight, taking off from Ireland and landing safely on a small Canadian island.

On April 13, 1870 the Metropolitan Museum of Art is officially incorporated in New York City.