April 13

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1598	Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.)	Iron & Wine	Free Until They Cut Me Down	Our Endless Numbered Days
2	1742	George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.	Handel	And with His Stripes We are Healed	Messiah
3	1796	The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.	Giles, Giles & Fripp	Elephant Song	The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp
4	1902	James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.	Hey Mercedes	Oh Penny	Loses Control
5	1919	Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.	Bobby Darin	What'd I Say	What'd I Say
6	1953	CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.	Mk Ultra	Nation in Mourning	Chicago's on Fire Again
7	1964	At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for 1963 for Lilies of the Field.	The Moody Blues	The Actor	In Search of the Lost Chord
8	1976	The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.	Damon Wayans & Stacey Dash	Gimme My 2 Dollars	Mo Money Sountrack

(Historical facts about April 13 are from Wikipedia.)