Template:On this day/April 13

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April 13:

• 1743 – Thomas Jefferson is born at Shadwell plantation (see also April 2 for Old Style date). The University of Virginia long observed this date as Founder’s Day.

• 1858 – After eight years of construction, trains begin running through the Blue Ridge Tunnel, then the longest railroad tunnel in the United States.

• 1885 – The University of Virginia dedicates the Leander McCormick Observatory, funded by Leander McCormick.

• 1887 – The Jeffersonian Republican reports that Charlottesville will have a street railway.

• 1943 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial honoring Thomas Jefferson.