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
- 532 –Nika riots in Constantinople.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1913 –Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
- 1942 –Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
- 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.
- 1982 –Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC’s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
- 1985 –A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
- 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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