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• ...that Paul Salamunovich, choir director since 1949 at St. Charles Borromeo Church (pictured) in North Hollywood, has also conducted choirs for dozens of feature films, including The Devil's Advocate?
• ...that a novel human polyomavirus is associated with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and highly aggressive form of skin cancer?
• ...that Thaba Bosigo, a Basotho stronghold in Lesotho, was the only fortress to remain impregnable during the Free State–Basotho Wars?
• ...that political opponents of Kentucky governor Thomas Metcalfe nicknamed him "Old Stone Hammer" because they felt his previous work as a stonemason was a background unbecoming a governor?
• ...that the SS Assyrian started life as a German merchant ship in the First World War and ended it as British merchant in the Second World War?
• ...that despite being called the "Aladdin's Castle of George Francis Train," the Cozzens House Hotel in Omaha operated for only four years before sitting empty for several more?
• ...that 39% of Israeli schoolchildren watch the educational television program Bli Sodot in their classroom?
  

• The Channel Island Sark (pictured) abolishes the last remaining feudal system in Europe.
• Soyuz TMA-12 is launched, carrying Yi So-yeon, the first Korean in space, for a mission to the International Space Station.
• The Olympic torch relay is disrupted in London, Paris and San Francisco by protesters objecting to China's human rights record.
• The Washington Post wins six awards and Bob Dylan receives a special citation in the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes.
• At its summit in Bucharest, NATO invites Albania and Croatia to join the alliance.
• Jules Verne, the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle, successfully performs a fully automated docking with the International Space Station.

April 13: Thai New Year's Day.

• 1598 – King Henry IV of France (pictured) issued the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
• 1873 – In the wake of a contested election for local political offices in Colfax, Louisiana, USA, armed white supremacists overpowered freedmen and the African American state militia trying to control the parish courthouse, killing over 100 of them.
• 1919 – British Indian Army troops opened fire on a peaceful gathering in Amritsar, Punjab in India, killing hundreds of unarmed men, women and children.
• 1943 – World War II: Germany announced the discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners-of-war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyn Forest Massacre.
• 1984 – Indian forces launched a preemptive attack on the disputed Siachen Glacier region of Kashmir, triggering a military conflict with Pakistan.

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