Today
Monday April 13 2026
- Day of the year
- 103/ 365
- Week
- 162,026
- Days left
- 26228%
- Moon
- 18%Waning crescent
Today is Monday, April 13, 2026. It is day 103 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 262 remain, and 28% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 16.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- April 22International Mother Earth Day
- April 23World Book and Copyright Day
- April 25World Malaria Day
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Martin I7th‑century pope and martyr, bishop of Rome (649–655), exiled for opposing Monothelitism, venerated as a saint in Catholic and Orthodox Churches
- Gemma GalganiItalian saint (1878-1903)
- HermenegildVisigothic prince and Catholic martyr
- Ida of LorraineFrench saint and noblewoman
- Caradoc Freichfras5th-6th century Celtic king in South Wales or Brittany
Sources : Wikidata (P841) · CC0 1.0
Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 06:20
- Sunset
- 19:33
- Length of day
- 13h 13m+3 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 12:56
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Spring
began on March 20, 2026
Next season
Summer — 69 days, June 21, 2026 (June solstice)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Memorial Day — May 25, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Waning crescent
Illumination : 18%
Moon age : 25.6 days
- Next full moon
- May 1, 2026
- Next new moon
- April 17, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Aries
until April 20, 2026 — Taurus
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
1204
Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. Wikipedia
1742
George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world premiere in Dublin, Ireland. Wikipedia
1861
American Civil War: Union forces surrender Fort Sumter to Confederate forces. Wikipedia
1919
Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approximately 379–1,000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India. Approximately 1,500 are injured. Wikipedia
1941
A pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. Wikipedia
1943
World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility. Wikipedia
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1945
World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany. Wikipedia
1953
CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra. Wikipedia
1970
At 10:08 PM EST an oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon. Wikipedia
1975
Beirut bus massacre: A confrontation between Phalangist paramilitaries and PLO militia marks the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day April 13
- 1519Catherine de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henry II of France (died 1589)
- 1570Guy Fawkes, English soldier, member of the Gunpowder Plot (probable; died 1606)
- 1743Thomas Jefferson, American lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the United States (died 1826)
- 1860James Ensor, English-Belgian painter, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism (died 1949)
- 1906Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
- 1922Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician and teacher, 1st President of Tanzania (died 1999)
- 1939Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
- 1940J. M. G. Le Clézio, Breton French-Mauritian author and academic, Nobel Prize laureateturns 86 years
Died on this day April 13
- 585Hermenegild, Visigothic prince and saintaged 21 years
- 814Krum, khan of the Bulgarian Khanateaged 59 years
- 1695Jean de La Fontaine, French author and poet (born 1621)aged 74 years
- 1853Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic (born 1788)aged 65 years
- 1882Bruno Bauer, German historian and philosopher (born 1809)aged 73 years
- 1999Willi Stoph, German engineer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of East Germany (born 1914)aged 85 years
- 2015Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, and illustrator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)aged 88 years
- 2025Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)aged 89 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 06:20 and sets at 19:33, giving 13h 13m of daylight — 3 minutes more than yesterday. It has been spring since March 20, 2026; summer opens in 69 days, on June 21, 2026 (June solstice).
The moon is a waning crescent, 18% illuminated. The next full moon falls on May 1, 2026 and the next new moon on April 17, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches April 13 to Martin I, Gemma Galgani and Hermenegild.
No United Nations international day falls on April 13. The next one on the calendar is International Mother Earth Day, on April 22.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire (1204); George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world premiere in Dublin, Ireland (1742). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Catherine de' Medici was born on April 13, 1519; Hermenegild died on April 13, 585.
256 days remain until Christmas and 263 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — April 13 falls under the sign of Aries.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 28%
- of the year elapsed
- 256
- until Christmas
- 263
- until New Year
- 687
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26