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This day in history: 13 January

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Key facts

399 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 13 January.
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2021: Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection following the January 6 United States Capitol attack one week prior.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Blessed Veronica of Milan

Christian feast day: Elian

Christian feast day: Hilary of Poitiers

Christian feast day: January 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Mungo

Christian feast day: St. Knut's Day or Tjugondag Knut, the last day of Christmas. (Sweden and Finland)

Constitution Day (Mongolia)

Democracy Day (Cape Verde)

Gluten-free diet day

Liberation Day (Togo)

Old New Year's Eve (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska, North Macedonia), and its related observances: Malanka (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus)

Sidereal winter solstice's eve celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; the last day of the six-month Dakshinayana period (see January 14): Bhogi (Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu)

Events

2021Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection following the January 6 United States Capitol attack one week prior.

2020The Thai Ministry of Public Health confirms the first case of COVID-19 outside China.

2018A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii causes widespread panic in the state.

2012The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to the captain Francesco Schettino's negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths.

2004Uzbekistan Airways Flight 1154 crashes while landing at Tashkent International Airport, killing 37.

2003208996 Achlys was discovered by Chad Trujillo and Michael E. Brown at Palomar Observatory.

2001An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.

2000A Short 360 aircraft chartered by the Sirte Oil Company crashes off the coast of Brega, Libya, killing 21.

1998Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.

1993Operation Southern Watch: U.S.A.F., U.S.N., R.A.F. and French Air Force jets attack AAA and SAM sites in Southern Iraq.

1993Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.

1993The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.

1991Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1,000 others.

1990Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.

1988Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.

1986A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.

1985A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.

1982Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.

1978United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.

1977Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045, a Douglas DC-8 jet, crashes onto the runway during takeoff from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, killing five.

1972Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.

1968Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison.

1966Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

1964Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, in response to anti-Hindu riots in East Pakistan. About one hundred people are killed.

1964In Manchester, New Hampshire, fourteen-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside by the landmark Fourth Amendment case Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971).

1963Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio.

1958The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.

1953An 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.

1951First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.

1950British submarine HMS Truculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.

1950Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.

1942Henry Ford patents a soybean car, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.

1942World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

1939The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 sq mi) of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.

1935A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to no more being a "region occupied and governed by the United Kingdom and France".

1920The Reichstag Bloodbath of January 13, 1920, the bloodiest demonstration in German history.

1915The 6.7 Mw Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978 and 32,610.

1908The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.

1900To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Franz Joseph decrees German will be language of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces.

1898Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.

Born on this day

2005Iker Bravo, Spanish footballer

2003Oksana Selekhmeteva, Russian tennis player

2000Harley Smith-Shields, Australian rugby league player

1997Connor McDavid, Canadian ice hockey player

1997Douglas Augusto, Brazilian footballer

1997Egan Bernal, Colombian cyclist

1997Henry Ellenson, American basketball player

1997Ivan Provorov, Russian ice hockey player

1997Luis Díaz, Colombian footballer

1995Eros Vlahos, English actor and comedian

1995Maxim Mamin, Russian ice hockey player

1995Natalia Dyer, American actress

1994Vasilije Micić, Serbian basketball player

1993Max Whitlock, English artistic gymnast

1992Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer

1992Austin Watson, American ice hockey player

1992Dinah Pfizenmaier, German tennis player

1991Kyle Clifford, Canadian ice hockey player

1991Rob Kiernan, English-Irish footballer

1990Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor

1990Vincenzo Fiorillo, Italian footballer

1989Beau Mirchoff, Canadian-American actor

1989Doug Martin, American football player (died 2025)

1989Heath Hembree, American baseball player

1989Morgan Burnett, American football player

1988Josh Freeman, American football player

1987Daniel Oss, Italian cyclist

1987Florica Leonida, Romanian gymnast

1987Jack Johnson, American ice hockey player

1987Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player

1987Stefano Del Sante, Italian footballer

1987Steven Michaels, Australian rugby league player

1986Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater

1984Kamghe Gaba, German sprinter

1984Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer

1984Nick Mangold, American football player (died 2025)

1983Ender Arslan, Turkish basketball player

1983Julian Morris, English actor

1983Mauricio Romero, Argentinian footballer

1983Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player

Died on this day

2026David Webb, British activist shareholder (born 1965)

2026Scott Adams, American author and illustrator (born 1957)

2025Oliviero Toscani, Italian photographer (born 1942)

2024Joyce Randolph, American actress (born 1924)

2020Bryan Monroe, American journalist and educator, (born 1965)

2020Philip Tartaglia, Scottish prelate, Catholic archbishop of Glasgow (born 1951)

2019Phil Masinga, South African footballer (born 1969)

2017Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and a former member of the British royal family (born 1930)

2017Dick Gautier, American actor (born 1931)

2017Magic Alex, Greek electronics engineer (born 1942)

2016Brian Bedford, English-American actor and director (born 1935)

2016Giorgio Gomelsky, Georgian-American director, producer, songwriter, and manager (born 1934)

2016Lawrence Phillips, American football player (born 1975)

2015Mark Juddery, Australian journalist and author (born 1971)

2015Robert White, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Paraguay (born 1926)

2014Bobby Collins, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1931)

2014Randal Tye Thomas, American journalist and politician (born 1978)

2014Waldemar von Gazen, German general and lawyer (born 1917)

2013Chia-Chiao Lin, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (born 1916)

2013Diogenes Allen, American philosopher and theologian (born 1932)

2013Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., American lieutenant and politician (born 1924)

2012Guido Dessauer, German physicist and engineer (born 1915)

2012Miljan Miljanić, Serbian footballer and manager (born 1930)

2012Rauf Denktaş, Turkish-Cypriot lawyer and politician, 1st President of Northern Cyprus (born 1924)

2011Albert Heijn, Dutch businessman (born 1927)

2010Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (born 1950)

2009Dai Llewellyn, Welsh socialite and politician (born 1946)

2009Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese poet, composer, and producer (born 1925)

2009Nancy Bird Walton, Australian pilot (born 1915)

2009Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American actor, director, and producer (born 1928)

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“When walking, walk. When eating, eat.”

Zen proverb

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