Timeline April 2013

Events in April 2013 14

• 1921 – 2013 Deanna Durbin (1921-2013) Canadian singer and actress whose musicals saved Universal in the 1930s, and who left Hollywood at 28.
• 1925 – 2013 Margaret Thatcher The Iron Lady The first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1931 – 2013 George Jones (1931-2013) Died 26 April 2013, aged 81 George Jones was an American country music singer known for hits including He Stopped Loving Her Today, widely regarded as one of the genre's greatest vocalists. He died in Nashville from hypoxic respiratory failure.
• 1942 – 2013 Roger Ebert (1942-2013) Died 4 April 2013, aged 70 Roger Ebert was an American film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and co-host of the television program At the Movies, the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for criticism. He died after a long battle with cancer that had cost him the ability to speak.
• 1942 – 2013 Annette Funicello (1942-2013) Died 8 April 2013, aged 70 Annette Funicello was an American actress and singer who rose to fame as one of the original Mouseketeers on The Mickey Mouse Club and later starred in a series of beach-party films. She died from complications of multiple sclerosis, with which she had lived for over two decades.
• 2013 Deanna Durbin dies in France Deanna Durbin dies aged 91.
• 2013 Marries Yvette Prieto Jordan marries model Yvette Prieto in Palm Beach, Florida; the couple later have twin daughters.
• 2013 Boston Marathon bombing Twin bombings kill three and injure hundreds Two pressure-cooker bombs detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and injuring more than 260 people. A manhunt led to the death of one bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and the capture of his brother Dzhokhar four days later. The attack prompted a lockdown of the greater Boston area.
• 2013 Public Enemy inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Hall of Fame Among the first hip hop acts inducted.
• 2013 2013 World Snooker Championship O’Sullivan Title 5 O’Sullivan won after taking a year off. Winner: Ronnie O’Sullivan; Runner-up: Barry Hawkins. Score: 18–12.
• 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse Garment factory disaster kills over 1,100 workers An eight-storey commercial building housing garment factories collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing more than 1,100 workers and injuring thousands more. It remains the deadliest garment-industry accident in history and led to major reforms in factory safety standards and international supply-chain accountability.
• 2013 Woody Guthrie Center opens in Tulsa Archive and museum His archive moves to a museum in his home state.
• 2013 Abdication of Queen Beatrix Willem-Alexander becomes king Queen Beatrix abdicated in favor of her son Willem-Alexander.
• 2013 King Willem-Alexander A king after three queens Queen Beatrix abdicates in favour of her son Willem-Alexander, who becomes the first Dutch king since 1890 after more than a century of queens.