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
- 888 –Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
- 1605 –The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
- 1733 –James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1785 –John Walter publishes the first issue of the Daily Universal Register (later renamed The Times).
- 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 –The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
- 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.
- 1908 –The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
- 1915 –An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
- 1934 –The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
- 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.
- 1958 –The Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
- 1964 –Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta – resulting in 100 deaths.
- 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.
- 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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