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).

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.
• 1910 - The first radio broadcast. Inventor Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera
• 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.
• 1982 - Shortly after takeoff, an Air Florida jumbojet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78.
• 1990 - Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
• 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- Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls basketball team announces his retirement (for the second time -- he has since rescinded his retirement)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 - President George W. Bush faints after choking on a pretzel.

Births

• 1596 - Jan van Goyen, painter (+ 1656)
• 1653 - Philipp Jakob Spener, theologian (+ 1705)
• 1749 - Friedrich Müller[?], painter, narrator, lyricistand dramatist, also known as Maler Müller[?] (+ 1825)
• 1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr., Unitarian minister, author (+ 1899)
• 1859 - Karl Bleibtreu[?], critic (+ 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
• 1864 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist
• 1879 - Melvin Jones, founder of Lions Clubs International
• 1884 - Sophie Tucker[?], singer, comedienne, vaudeville performer (+ 1966)
• 1919 - Army Archerd[?], Hollywood journalist
• 1919 - Robert Stack, actor (+ 2003)
• 1922 - Albert Lamorisse[?], film director (+ 1970)
• 1925 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (+ 2000)
• 1930 - Frances Sternhagen[?], actress
• 1942 - Richard Moll[?], actor
• 1949 - Brandon Tartikoff[?], television executive (+ 1997)
• 1955 - Jay McInerney[?], writer
• 1960 - Kevin Anderson[?], actor
• 1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
• 1964 - Penelope Ann Miller[?], actress
• 1966 - Patrick Dempsey[?], actor
• 1977 - Orlando Bloom, actor

Deaths

• 858 - Ethelwulf, king of Wessex
• 1864 - Stephen Foster, composer of Camptown Races, Oh! Susannah
• 1929 - Wyatt Earp[?], Western legend
• 1941 - James Joyce, writer
• 1962 - Ernie Kovacs, actor, comedian
• 1978 - Hubert H. Humphrey - Vice President of the United States and former Senator from Minnesota
• 1978 - Joe McCarthy, baseball manager
• 2002 - Ted Demme film and television director

Holidays and observances

• Catholicism - Baptism of the Lord.
• National Vocation Awareness Week.

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