History for April 13 - On-This-Day.com
Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 3rd U.S. President, Alfred Butts 1899 - Architect, game inventor (Scrabble), Samuel Beckett 1906 - Author, critic, playwright
Madalyn Murray O'Hair 1919 - Author ("Why I Am an Atheist"), Don Adams (Donald James Yarmy) 1926 - Actor ("Get Smart"), Tony Dow 1945 - Actor ("Leave it to Beaver")
1949 - Philip S. Hench and associates announced that cortizone was an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.
1981 - Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke received a Pulitzer Prize for her feature about an 8-year-old heroin addict named "Jimmy." Cooke relinquished the prize two days later after admitting she had fabricated the story.
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