January 13

January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. It is still celebrated as New Year's Eve by those on the Julian calendar. There are 352 days remaining (353 in a leap year).

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Events

• 888 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
• 1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
• 1854 - The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas.
• 1893 - The Independent Labor Party of the UK has its first meeting.
• 1898 - Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
• 1935 - A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
• 1942 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
• 1953 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia.
• 1957 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.
• 1966 - Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
• 1972 - Prime Minister of Ghana, Dr Kofi Busia's ousted in bloodless military coup.
• 1982 - Shortly after takeoff, an Air Florida jumbojet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78.
• 1989 - The final episode of the American soap opera Ryan's Hope is aired, ending a 14-year run on the network.
• 1990 - L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
• 1991 - Soviet military troops attacked Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius.
• 1992 - Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
• 1998 - ABC and ESPN negotiate a $1.15 billion a season contract to keep Monday Night Football.
• 1999 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls basketball team announces his retirement (for the second time -- he has since rescinded his retirement).
• 2001 - An earthquake hits El Salvador. More than 5,000 deaths.
• 2002 - US President George W. Bush faints after choking on a pretzel.

Births

• 1596 - Jan van Goyen, painter (d. 1656)
• 1653 - Philipp Jakob Spener, theologian (d. 1705)
• 1749 - Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricistand dramatist, also known as Maler Müller (d. 1825)
• 1805 - Thomas Dyer, mayor of Chicago, IL (d. 1862
• 1808 - Salmon Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln, Chief Justice, (d. 1873)
• 1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr., Unitarian minister, author (d. 1899)
• 1859 - Karl Bleibtreu, critic (d. 1928)
• 1864 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist (d. 1928)
• 1866?- G. I. Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian mystic. He stated he was born at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve Julian calendar (d. 1949)
• 1866 - Vasily Kalinnikov, composer
• 1867 - Francis Everett Townsend, American physician and social reformer
• 1879 - Melvin Jones, founder of Lions Clubs International (d. 1961)
• 1884 - Sophie Tucker, singer, comedienne, vaudeville performer (d. 1966)
• 1893 - Clark Ashton Smith, writter (d. 1961)
• 1919 - Army Archerd, Hollywood journalist
• 1919 - Robert Stack, actor (d. 2003)
• 1922 - Albert Lamorisse, film director (d. 1970)
• 1924 - Paul Feyerabend, philosopher (d. 1994)
• 1925 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (d. 2000)
• 1926 - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
• 1926 - Amanda Cross - feminist author (d. 2003)
• 1927 - Brockman Adams (d. 2004)
• 1930 - Frances Sternhagen, actress
• 1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly, actor
• 1942 - Richard Moll, actor
• 1949 - Brandon Tartikoff, television executive (d. 1997)
• 1955 - Jay McInerney, writer
• 1960 - Kevin Anderson, actor
• 1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
• 1964 - Penelope Ann Miller, actress
• 1966 - Patrick Dempsey, actor
• 1969 - Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
• 1970 - Keith Coogan, actor
• 1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian NHL goalie
• 1977 - Orlando Bloom, actor
• 1982 - Guillermo Coria, Argentinian professional tennis player

Deaths

• 86 BC - Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician
• 858 - Ethelwulf, king of Wessex (b. ca. 800)
• 1151 - Abbot Suger abbot of Saint-Denis (b. 1081)
• 1177 - Henry Jasomirgott, Duke of Austria
• 1330 - Duke Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg) ("the Handsome")
• 1599 - Edmund Spenser, poet (b. 1552)
• 1864 - Stephen Foster, composer of Camptown Races, Oh! Susannah (b. 1826)
• 1929 - Wyatt Earp, Western legend (b. 1848)
• 1941 - James Joyce, writer (b. 1882)
• 1962 - Ernie Kovacs, actor, comedian (b. 1919)
• 1978 - Hubert H. Humphrey - Vice President of the United States and former Senator from Minnesota (b. 1911)
• 1978 - Joe McCarthy, baseball manager (b. 1908)
• 1988 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
• 2002 - Ted Demme film and television director (b. 1963)
• 2004 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer, found dead in his cell (b. 1946)
• 2004 - Arne Næss jr., Norwegian mountaineer and businessman (b. 1937)

Holidays and observances

• Catholicism - Baptism of the Lord
• National Vocation Awareness Week
• Lovers of Life International - Day of Orgiastic Life
• Liberation Day in Togo

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