Good News in History, April 13 - Good News Network

Vaisakhi is the second most important day of the year on the Punjabi calendar.

It is the day that the 10th Guru of Sikhism, Guru Gobind Singh , created the Khalsa , an order of warrior-poet-holy men to defend to lands of Punjab .

Also on this day , British Bengal Army officer Reginald Dyer orders his troops to shoot into a protesting crowd, an event which would come to be known the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Miyamoto Musashi defeated Sasaki Kojiro in a duel in what was the equivalent of the heavyweight title match of the age.

Musashi wrote his famous Book of Five Rings explaining his philosophy on life and sword fighting methods.

The final masterpiece from the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael was hung on display at the Vatican one week after the artist’s death.

155 years ago today, The Metropolitan Museum of Art was chartered by the state of New York .

The new institution started with nothing, unlike other world-famous museums born from royal collections.

Today The Met is the largest museum in the world by area, at 2.2 million square feet , and owns 1.5 million objects.