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
- 1547 –Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
- 1607 –The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
- 1822 –The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
- 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.
- 1847 –The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
- 1869 –National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
- 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.
- 1915 –An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1964 –Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta – resulting in 100 deaths.
- 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.
- 1993 –Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
- 2001 –An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
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