January 13 is the 13th day of the year, missing 353 by the end.
Some of the historical events of this day
1610: Galileo discovers Callisto, the fourth minor planet in the Jupiter system.
1822: The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the first Greek general assembly at Epidaurus.
1830: A major fire breaks out in Louisiana and New Orleans.
1832: In the United States, President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren describing what he calls the Nullification Crisis, a rebellion in South Carolina.
1910: The first live public radio broadcast in the United States was broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
1915: A major earthquake strikes Avezzano, Italy, killing over 29,000 people.
1935: A similar poll shows that just over 90% of the population of Saaland wanted to be Nazi Germany.
1939: Black Friday in Australia, when a wildfire burns over 20,000 square kilometers, killing 71 people.
1953: Marshal Josip Broz Tito is re-elected as leader of Yugoslavia.
1958: The Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish troops in an attack at Edchera.
1963: Togo coup and assassination of former President Sylvanus Olympio.
1964: Anti-Muslim riots in Calcutta, India, kill about 100 people.
1964: Karol Josef Wojtyla, who later became Pope John Paul II, becomes Bishop of Krakow, Poland.
1967: Gnassingbé Eyadema takes power in Togo.
1980: Togo’s Third Republic is established.
1990: L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first black African to be elected Governor of the United States when he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
1991: Mário Soares is re-elected President of Portugal.
1993: 127 countries sign a treaty in Paris, France, banning the use of chemical weapons.
1993: The Vatican suspends Gaillot, Bishop of Evreux, for his advocacy of condom use, which contradicts the Pope’s views.
2001: A major earthquake strikes El Salvador, killing more than 800 people.
2002: President George W. Bush, then president of the United States, chokes on pretzels.
Some of the greats born on this date
1864: Prussian physicist Wilhelm Wien, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1911.
1918: Maurice Blondel, French footballer.
1954: Trevor Rabin, South African guitarist.
1989: James Berrett, English footballer.
Some of the greats who died on this date
703: Jitō, Empress of Japan.
1330: Frederick the Fair, King of Romania.
1766: Frederick V, King of Denmark and Norway.
1963: Sylvanus Olympio, President of Togo.
1978: Hubert H. Humphrey, Vice President of the United States.
2007: Michael Brecker, American musician.
2010: Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan writer and linguist.
