About January 13
January 13, 2024 is the 13th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 353 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 28 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.
- 1328 –Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault, daughter of the Count of Hainault.
- 1605 –The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
- 1607 –The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
- 1785 –John Walter publishes the first issue of the Daily Universal Register (later renamed The Times).
- 1822 –The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
- 1830 –The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.
- 1832 –President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
- 1869 –National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
- 1893 –U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
- 1898 –Emile Zola’s J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
- 1908 –The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
- 1910 –The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
- 1939 –The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
- 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.
- 1972 –Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong.
- 1974 –Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
- 1986 –A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
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