April 13
1964
Bobby Darin is nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar at the 36th Academy Awards in Santa Monica, California. It’s for his role as the traumatized war hero, Corporal Jim Tompkins in the film Captain Newman, M.D. Melvyn Douglas in the Paul Newman Western, Hud, gets the nod.
1983
Pretenders bass player Pete Farndon dies of a drug overdose. His death comes at only 30 years old.
2003
2003
In the early days of peer to peer file sharing, computer pirates hack Madonna’s upcoming album, American Life. She catches wind of what’s happening and it gets ugly from there.
