April 13 – President Abdul Salam Arif was killed in a helicopter crash in southern Iraq

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1919 – Amritsar massacre in India as the British occupation authorities killed and injured hundreds of civilian demonstrators.

1939 – Formation of Indian Red Army for resisting British occupation.

1966 – President Abdul Salam Arif was killed in a helicopter crash in southern Iraq.

1975 – Ain el-Remmaneh accident, the spark of the Lebanese civil war.

1975 – African Peoples’ Solidarity Organization holds a meeting.

1985 – Israeli warplanes attack Mar Elias area in Lebanon, causing material losses.

1997 – Jordanian soldier Ahmad al-Dakamiseh, who shot fire against Israeli tourist group near Jordanian borders and killed 7 Israelis, was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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1906 – Irish novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett.

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