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.
- 1328 –Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault, daughter of the Count of Hainault.
- 1547 –Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
- 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.
- 1847 –The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
- 1898 –Emile Zola’s J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
- 1908 –The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
- 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.
- 1939 –The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
- 1942 –Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
- 1951 –First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, which will end in a major victory for France.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1966 –Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
- 1968 –Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom Prison
- 1990 –L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
- 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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