Today is Tuesday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2010. There are 262 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On April 13, 1743, the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, was born in Shadwell, Va.
ON THIS DATE
In 1860, the Pony Express completed its inaugural run from St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacramento, Calif., in 10 days.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial.
In 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. The astronauts managed to return safely.
In 2005, a defiant Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks in back-to-back court appearances in Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta.
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