About January 13
January 13, 2020 is the 13th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 353 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 12 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.
- 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.
- 1797 –French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running ashore, resulting in the death of over 900.
- 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.
- 1847 –The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
- 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.
- 1913 –Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 1974 –Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
- 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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