1545
Apr 13, Elisabeth van Valois, French queen of Spain, daughter of Henri II, was born.

1895
Apr 13, In San Francisco a woman at the Emmanuel Baptist Church, on Bartlett St. between 22nd and 23rd, discovered the stabbed and raped body of Minnie Williams (21). Minnie was last seen with medical student Theodore Durrant the night before. Police then found the body of Blanche Dumont in the church belfry. Investigators said she had been strangled 10 days earlier. Durrant was later convicted and hanged at San Quentin in 1898. The church was demolished in 1915.

2006
Apr 13, In Tennessee’s Cherokee National Forest a black bear killed a 6-year-old girl and critically injured her mother and 2-year-old brother.

2009
Apr 13, In Iran Roxana Saberi (31), an Iranian-American journalist, was convicted of spying and soon sentenced to 8 years in jail. She was released from jail on May 11 after an appeals court suspended her sentence.

2010
Apr 13, In the SF Bay Area Parima Parineh (56) was killed at her Woodside home. She had a $31 million life insurance policy. May 23, 2013, her husband Pooroushasb Parineh (67), was convicted of murder.

2010
Apr 13, First lady Michelle Obama made a surprise visit to the ruins of the Haitian capital, a high-profile reminder that hundreds of thousands remain in desperate straits three months after the earthquake.

2011
Apr 13, In Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo (20) was last seen as she prepared to leave for college classes

2012
Apr 13, Colombia's Jose Antonio Ocampo withdrew from the race to lead the World Bank, endorsing Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's challenge against the favored US candidate.