January 13

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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).

1 Events
2 Births
- 2.1 1334 to 1899
- 2.2 1900 to 1999
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

888 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
1099 - Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria.
1328 - Edward III of England marries Philippa, daughter of the Count of Hainault.
1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey sentenced to death
1559 - Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey.
1602 - William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is published.
1605 - The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
1607 - Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter.
1622 - Work on the printing of the First Folio of William Shakespeare is suspended.
1625 - John Milton, 16, admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge.
1733 - James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston,South Carolina.
1785 - John Walter publishes first issue of the Daily Universal Register (later renamed The Times).
1830 - Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves.
1832 - President Andrew Jackson wrote Vice President Martin Van Buren
1834 - John Mason Cook, whom JMC Air is named after was born.

expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

1840 - The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
1854 - The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas.
1869 - National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
1893 - The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting.
- US Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to protect the king and stop the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
1898 - Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
1913 - Delta Sigma Theta, Sorority, Inc. founded. Currently the largest African-American women's organization
1915 - Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800
1930 - Mickey Mouse comic strip makes first appearance.
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.
- The United States begins the iternment of Japanese-Americans living on the American west coast.
1953 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia.
1957 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.
1958 - Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera
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 Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana were ousted in a bloodless military coup by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
1982 - Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. Plane was not properly de-iced. There were five survivors.
1986 - A month-long violent struggle began in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
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.

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Births

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1334 to 1899

1334 - King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
1562 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (d. 1601)
1596 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
1610 - Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1665)
1616 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)
1635 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
1651 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)
1749 - Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1825)
1805 - Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
1808 - Salmon Chase, Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)
1812 - Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)
1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and author (d. 1899)
1861 - Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)
1864 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
1866 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)
1879 - Melvin Jones, American founder of Lions Clubs International (d. 1961)
1884 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer, comedienne, and vaudeville performer (d. 1966)
1893 - Clark Ashton Smith, American writer (d. 1961)
1899 - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)

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1900 to 1999

1909 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (d. 1934)
1911 - Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)
1919 - Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)
1924 - Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
1925 - Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000)
1926 - Michael Bond, British writer
1926 - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American feminist author (d. 2003)
1927 - Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)
1930 - Liz Anderson, American singer
1930 - Frances Sternhagen, American actress
1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor
1934 - Rip Taylor, American actor
1938 - William B. Davis, Canadian actor
1938 - Tord Grip, Swedish football manager
1942 - Richard Moll, American actor
1943 - Carol Cleveland, English actress
1948 - Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur
1949 - Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997)
1954 - Trevor Rabin, South African musician (Yes)
1955 - Jay McInerney, American writer
1958 - Andrew Stanton, American actor and director
1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress
1961 - Graham McPherson, English singer
1962 - Trace Adkins, American musician
1964 - Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
1966 - Patrick Dempsey, American actor
1969 - Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
1970 - Keith Coogan, American actor
1970 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
1972 - Nicole Eggert, American actress
1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian hockey player
1977 - Orlando Bloom, English actor
1980 - Krzysztof Czerwinski, Polish conductor and organist
1982 - Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
1983 - William Hung, Hong Kong-born singer (d. 2005)

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Deaths

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85 BC to 1899

85 BC - Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician
703 - Empress Jitō of Japan (b. 645)
858 - King Ethelwulf of Wessex
888 - Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor
1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
1151 - Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian
1177 - Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)
1330 - Duke Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
1363 - Meinhard III, Count of Tyrol
1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)
1599 - Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)
1658 - Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
1691 - George Fox, English founder of the Quakers (b. 1624)
1762 - Leonhard Trautsch, German composer (b. 1694)
1775 - Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (b. 1693)
1790 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)
1797 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, queen of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)
1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)
1864 - Stephen Foster, American composer (b. 1826)

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1900 to 1999

1923 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)
1929 - Wyatt Earp, Western lawman (b. 1848)
1941 - James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)
1962 - Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
1974 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)
1978 - Hubert H. Humphrey, Vice President of the United States and Senator from Minnesota (b. 1911)
1978 - Joe McCarthy, baseball manager (b. 1908)
1979 - Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945)
1988 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)

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2000 onwards

2001 - Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985)
2002 - Ted Demme, American film and television director (b. 1963)
2002 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (b. 1916)
2003 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)
2004 - Arne Næss jr., Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (b. 1937)
2004 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946)
2005 - Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1915)
2005 - Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1924)

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Holidays and observances

National Vocation Awareness Week
Liberation Day in Togo
In Sweden, Christmas ends on the 20th day, St. Knut's Day. Children celebrate a party throwing out the Christmas tree (julgransplundring)

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