Today in History - History - January 13th

1999Basketball player Michael Jordan announces his retirement only to return in 2001

1959French President Charles de Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 Algerians sentenced to death

1882Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"

200228th People's Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Kelsey Grammer, Ray Romano & Jennifer Aniston win (TV)

1991Phil Mickelson wins PGA Northern Telecom Golf Open

1605The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.

1610Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter

1981Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick-4 goals

1957"All that Fall", first radio play by Samuel Beckett, aired on BBC Third Programme

1559Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey

1961Julia Louis-Dreyfus, NYC, comedienne (SNL, Seinfeld, Soul Man, Troll)

1966Patrick Dempsey, Lewiston Me, actor (Mike-Fast Times)

2006"The Diary of Anne Frank" actress Shelley Winters (85) weds Gerry DeFord a few hours before her death

1992MLB baseball right fielder Sammy Sosa (23) weds Sonia Rodriguez

1929Wyatt Earp, US marshall (OK Corral), dies at 80

86 BCGaius Marius, Roman general and politician (held the office of consul seven times), dies at 70

1941James Joyce, novelist (Ulysses), dies in Zurich Switzerland, at 58

1864Stephen Foster, American composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies at 37 in New York