About January 13
January 13, 2025 is the 13th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 352 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 16 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
January 13: More About This Day
It is still celebrated as New Year’s Eve (at least in the 20th & 21st centuries) by countries still using the thirteen-day-slower Julian calendar (Old New Year).
What Happened On January 13
- 888 –Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
- 1435 –Sicut Dudum is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV about the enslaving of black natives in Canary Islands by Spanish natives.
- 1547 –Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
- 1607 –The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
- 1733 –James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1785 –John Walter publishes the first issue of the Daily Universal Register (later renamed The Times).
- 1815 –War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
- 1822 –The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
- 1842 –Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
- 1869 –National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
- 1913 –Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
- 1934 –The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
- 1951 –First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, which will end in a major victory for France.
- 1953 –Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.
- 1958 –The Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
- 1964 –Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland.
- 1990 –L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
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