^B{^#!16!13 April^N! Feast day of St Guinoch, St Martin I, pope, Saints Carpus, Papylus, and Agathonice, St Hermenegild, and St Martius.
^B{1598^B} Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, giving religious freedom to the Huguenots. ^B{1668^B} English poet John Dryden became the first Poet Laureate. ^B{1829^B} The British Parliament passed the Catholic Emancipation Act, lifting restrictions imposed on Catholics at the time of Henry VIII. ^B{1919^B} The Amritsar Massacre took place in the Punjab, India; British troops fired into a crowd of 10,000 which had gathered to protest at the arrest of two Indian Congress Party leaders, 379 people were killed and 1,200 wounded. ^B{1936^B} Luton Town footballer Joe Payne set a goal-scoring record when he scored ten goals in one match against Bristol Rovers. ^B{1980^B} Spanish golfer Severiano Ballesteros became the youngest-ever winner of the US Masters Tournament.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the US, ^B{1743^B}; Richard Trevithick, English engineer, ^B{1771^B}; F W Woolworth, US founder of chain stores, ^B{1852^B}; John Braine, English novelist, ^B{1922^B}; Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, ^B{1939^B}; Gary Kasparov, Russian chess player, ^B{1963^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Boris Godunov, Russian tsar, ^B{1605^B}; Jean de La Fontaine, French writer of fables, ^B{1695^B}; William Orchardson, Scottish painter, ^B{1910^B}; Abdul Salam Arif, president of Iraq, ^B{1966^B}; Christmas Humphreys, English judge, ^B{1983^B}.
