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
- 1733 –James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1815 –War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
- 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.
- 1840 –The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
- 1869 –National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
- 1893 –The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
- 1908 –The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
- 1915 –An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
- 1942 –World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
- 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.
- 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
- 1972 –Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong.
- 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.
- 1990 –L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
- 2001 –An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
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