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The
13t o Januar
is the 13t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 352 days ti come (353 in lowp years).
Events
- 1822
- The current Banner o
Greece
is adoptit.
- 1840
- A
fire
on the steamboat "Lexington" atween
Manhattan
an Stonington,
Connecticut
, kills 139 fowk.
- 1888
- The
Unitit States
's Naitional Geographic Society is foondit.
- 1904
- The current Banner o
Sooth Australie
is adoptit.
- 1915
- A magnitude 7.5
yirdquauk
in Avezzano,
Italy
, kills ower 30,000 fowk.
- 1917
- A train crash in Ciurea,
Romanie
, kills atween 600 an 1,000 fowk.
- 1953
-
Josip Broz Tito
is chosen as
Preses
o
Yugoslavie
.
- 1963
-
Togolese
Preses
Sylvanus Olympio
is remuivit, an kilt, in a coup.
- 1964
- Riots in
Calcutta
kill 100 fowk.
- 1985
- A train crash near Awash,
Ethiopie
, kills at least 392 fowk.
- 1986
- Stairt o the Ceevil War in Sooth
Yemen
.
- 1986
-
Uranus
' muins Desdemona, Belinda an Rosalind are discoverit bi
Voyager 2
.
- 1990
- In
Virginie
,
Douglas Wilder
becomes the first
African American
govrenor o a US state.
- 1991
- 13 fowk are kilt bi
Soviet
troops in
Vilnius
,
Lithuanie
.
- 2001
- A
yirdquauk
in
El Salvador
kills ower 800 fowk.
- 2004
- Inglis medicinar an serial killer
Harold Shipman
commits suicide in gaol.
- 2012
- The first
Winter Youth Olympics
stairt in
Innsbruck
,
Austrick
.
- 2012
- Italian cruise ship "Costa Concordia" runs aground off the
island
o
Giglio
naur the coast o
Tuscany
, killin 33 fowk.
- 2018
- A false missile alert causes panic in
Hawaii
.
- 2019
- The Mayor o
Gdansk
in
Poland
,
Pawel Adamowicz
, is stobbit at a charity event, an dees the naxt day.
- 2021
-
COVID-19 pandemic
: The
Unitit Kinrick
's recordit daily
COVID-19
daith toll surpasses 1,500.
- 2021
- A majority in the
Unitit States Hoose o Representatives
impeaches Preses
Donald Trump
for the seicont time.
Births
- 1804
-
John Pringle Nichol
, Scots eddicator, phrenologist, astronomer an economist (d.
1859
)
- 1812
-
Victor de Laprade
, French poet (d.
1883
)
- 1843
-
David Ferrier
, Scots neurologist an psychologist (d.
1928
)
- 1864
-
Wilhelm Wien
, German pheesicist (d.
1928
)
- 1875
-
Barney Battles Sr.
, Scots fitbawer (d.
1905
)
- 1906
-
Zhou Youguang
, Cheenese linguist (d.
2017
)
- 1927
-
Sydney Brenner
, Sooth Africae biologist (d.
2019
)
- 1938
-
Cabu
, French cartoonist (d.
2015
)
- 1949
-
Rakesh Sharma
, Indian astronaut
- 1960
-
Eric Betzig
, American pheesicist
- 1961
-
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
, American actress
- 1966
-
Patrick Dempsey
, American actor
- 1969
-
Stephen Hendry
, Scots snooker player
- 1970
-
Marco Pantani
, Italian cyclist (d.
2004
)
- 1976
-
Mario Yepes
, Colombian fitbawer
- 1977
-
Orlando Bloom
, Inglis actor
- 1984
-
Raif Badawi
, Saudi writer an activist
- 1986
-
Joannie Rochette
, Canadian feegur skeitcher
- 1990
-
Liam Hemsworth
, Australian actor
- 1996
-
Craig Storie
, Scots fitbawer
- 1997
-
Egan Bernal
, Colombie cyclist
Daiths
- 614
-
Saunt Mungo
, Inglis-Scots bishop an saunt
- 1766
-
Frederick V o Denmark
(b.
1723
)
- 1907
-
Robert Herbert Story
, Scots divine (b.
1835
)
- 1916
-
Victoriano Huerta
,
Preses
o
Mexico
(b.
1854
)
- 1929
-
Wyatt Earp
, American Western figure (b.
1848
)
- 1941
-
James Joyce
, Erse novelist an poet (b.
1882
)
- 1963
-
Sylvanus Olympio
, 1st
Preses
o
Togo
(b.
1902
)
- 1978
-
Hubert Humphrey
,
Vice Preses o the Unitit States
(b.
1911
)
- 1984
-
Tommy Younger
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1930
)
- 2004
-
Harold Shipman
, Inglis medicinar an serial killer (b.
1946
)
- 2021
-
Philip Tartaglia
, Scots airchbeeshop (b.
1951
)
- 2021
-
Siegfried Fischbacher
, German-American magician an performer (b.
1939
)
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