About January 13
January 13, 2023 is the 13th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 352 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 9 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
- 532 –Nika riots in Constantinople.
- 888 –Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
- 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.
- 1830 –The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.
- 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.
- 1893 –U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
- 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.
- 1935 –A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
- 1939 –The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
- 1942 –World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
- 1953 –An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
- 1953 –Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.
- 1964 –Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta – resulting in 100 deaths.
- 1968 –Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom Prison
- 1972 –Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong.
- 1985 –A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
- 1990 –L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
- 1991 –Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding 1000.
- 1993 –Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
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