Notable Historical Events on January 13th
January 13th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
888 |
Odo, Count of Paris, becomes King of the Franks. |
1099 |
Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria |
1404 |
The Act of Multipliers is passed by the English Parliament forbidding alchemists to use their knowledge to create precious metals (it was feared that if any alchemist should succeed it would bring ruin upon the state) |
1559 |
Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey |
1605 |
The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison. |
1607 |
The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain. |
1610 |
Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter |
1621 |
Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta) |
1630 |
Letters Patent issued to Plymouth Colony |
1673 |
Jean Racine's "Mithridate," premieres in Paris |
1695 |
Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland |
1733 |
James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC |
1770 |
De Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis," premieres in Paris |
1785 |
John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times |
1794 |
Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes |
1822 |
The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus. |
1830 |
Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves |
1840 |
The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives. |
1842 |
Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for (reputedly) being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad. |
1849 |
Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co |
1854 |
Anthony Foss patents accordion |
1863 |
Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, NYC |
1863 |
Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet |
1865 |
-Jan 15th] BBT & CPT Ft Fisher, NC |
1869 |
Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention meets in Wash DC |
1873 |
P B S Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana governor |
1874 |
Battle between jobless & police in NYC, 100s injuried |
1874 |
US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king |
1882 |
Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal" |
1883 |
Fire in Circus Ferroni in Berditschoft, Poland, kills 430 |
1883 |
Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo |
1888 |
National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC) |
1893 |
British Independent Labour Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader) |
1893 |
U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. |
1894 |
Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops |
1895 |
Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband," premieres in London |
1898 |
Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Alfred Dreyfus |
1902 |
Textile workers strike in Enschede Neth till June 1 |
1906 |
1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile |
1908 |
French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip |
1908 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Ottawa Victorias in 2 games |
1908 |
Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, PA killing 171 people. |
1910 |
JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows," premieres in Dublin |
1911 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin |
1911 |
Roald Amundsen anchors at Walvis Bay, southwestern Africa |
1911 |
South Africa's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide |
1912 |
-40°F (-40°C), Oakland, Maryland (state record) |
1913 |
Delta Sigma Theta, the world's largest Black Women's Sorority is founded at Howard University, Washington DC |
1914 |
IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia |
1915 |
Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 29,800 |
1915 |
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, presents plan for assault on Dardanelles |
1919 |
Dutch Soccer team OSV forms |
1920 |
NY Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly |
1922 |
Buck Weaver, a Black Sox, applies unsuccessfully for reinstatement |
1922 |
Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended |
1922 |
WHA-AM in Madison WI begins radio transmissions |
1924 |
Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections |
1927 |
US & Mexico battle over oil interests |
1928 |
RCA and GE install three test television sets in homes in Schenectady, New York allowing American inventor E.F.W. Alexanderson to demonstrate the first home television receiver which delivered a poor and unsteady 1.5 square inch picture |
1929 |
Humanist Society established, Hollywood, California |
1930 |
"Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears |
1934 |
The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR. |
1935 |
Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany |
1938 |
The Church of England accepts the theory of evolution. |
1939 |
Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco |
1939 |
The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people. |
1942 |
Allied Conference on war trials |
1942 |
German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast |
1942 |
Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies |
1942 |
Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration |
1942 |
World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter. |
1943 |
British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca |
1943 |
Hitler declares "Total War" |
1943 |
Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov |
1943 |
US infantry captures Galloping Horse Ridge, Guadalcanal |
1945 |
Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
1948 |
1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cin |
1949 |
"Along 5th Avenue" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 perfs |
1951 |
German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison |
1953 |
Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14 |
1953 |
KOLD TV channel 13 in Tucson, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia |
1954 |
Military rule in Egypt; 318 Muslim Brotherhood members arrested |
1954 |
WEAR TV channel 3 in Pensacola-Mobile, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate |
1957 |
Mickey Wright wins Sea Island Golf Open |
1957 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 19-10 |
1957 |
Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee |
1957 |
"All that Fall", first radio play by Samuel Beckett, aired on BBC Third Programme |
1958 |
9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban |
1958 |
US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication |
1958 |
Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera. |
1959 |
French President Charles de Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 Algerians sentenced to death |
1959 |
King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence |
1962 |
"Do Re Mi" closes at St James Theater NYC after 400 performances |
1962 |
Wilt Chamberlain of Warriors scores then NBA-record 73 pts vs Chicago |
1963 |
AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 21-14 |
1963 |
NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-20 |
1964 |
Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow |
1964 |
Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people. |
1966 |
1st black selected for pres cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD) |
1966 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1967 |
Coup in Togo |
1967 |
Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
1968 |
"Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 293 perfs |
1968 |
"Illya Darling" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 320 perfs |
1968 |
Minn North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th) |
1970 |
Riots begin in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast |
1971 |
"Soon" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 3 performances |
1972 |
Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire |
1973 |
"Tricks" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 8 performances |
1973 |
Lasse Daniel Efskind skates world record 1000m (1:17.6) |
1974 |
Super Bowl VIII: Miami Dolphins beat Minnesota Vikings, 24-7 in Houston Super Bowl MVP: Larry Csonka, Miami, RB |
1974 |
Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. |
1975 |
Henry Kissinger hints at military action against oil countries in case of "actual strangulation of the industrialized world" in the wake of oil shock |
1976 |
Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at NY's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata" |
1978 |
NASA select its first American women astronauts |
1979 |
Charlie Daniels hosts Volunteer Jam |
1979 |
YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song |
1980 |
"King of Schnorrers" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 63 perfs |
1980 |
Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium |
1980 |
Togo's constitution becomes effective |
1981 |
Barbara Sonntag, Colo, crochets record 147 stitches/min for 1/2 hour |
1981 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson & Howard Nemerov |
1981 |
Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick-4 goals |
1982 |
Hank Aaron & Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame |
1982 |
Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St Bridge in Washington, DC, & falls into Potomac River, killing 78 |
1983 |
AMA urges ban on boxing sites Muhammad Ali's deteriorating condition |
1983 |
Quebec Nordiques play 251st NHL game without being shut out |
1984 |
TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV |
1985 |
23rd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats USA in Nagoya Japan (2-1) |
1985 |
99-yr-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course |
1985 |
Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders |
1985 |
Cerberal Palsy telethon raises $17,100,000 |
1985 |
Express train derails in Ethiopia, killing at least 428 |
1986 |
NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams |
1986 |
South Yemen Pres Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents |
1987 |
Seven top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each |
1987 |
West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking |
1988 |
LA Dodger/SD Padre Steve Garvey retires |
1988 |
Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays & other expressive activities |
1989 |
"Ryan's Hope" ends 13½ year run on ABC-TV |
1989 |
Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th"/Jerusalem virus |
1989 |
Jerry Parks, Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate |
1989 |
Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq |
1989 |
Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence |
1990 |
1st elected US black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia) |
1991 |
12th ACE Cable Awards: Weather Channel wins the Golden CableACE for the coverage of the hurricane "Hugo" |
1991 |
42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg, South Africa |
1991 |
Phil Mickelson wins PGA Northern Telecom Golf Open |
1991 |
Pres Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected |
1991 |
Soccer stadium riot in Orkney, South Africa, at least 40 die |
1991 |
UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam |
1992 |
Excavation of new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) begins |
1992 |
US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane |
1992 |
Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II. |
1993 |
STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit |
1993 |
Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena - Cowboys beat Bills |
1994 |
Italian government of Ciampi resigns |
1994 |
Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan |
1995 |
26 HNL teams unanimously ratify agreement to end NHL strike |
1995 |
America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an America's Cup race |
1998 |
"Patti LaBelle On Broadway," opens at St James Theater NYC |
1998 |
CBS pays $4 billion to televise AFC games for 8-years |
1999 |
Basketball player Michael Jordan announces his retirement only to return in 2001 |
2000 |
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes company president Steve Ballmer to the position |
2001 |
Earthquake measuring magnitude 7.6 strikes El Salvador, killing more than 840 people |
2002 |
28th People's Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Kelsey Grammer, Ray Romano & Jennifer Aniston win (TV) |
2002 |
In a controversial move, Marty Schottenheimer is fired as head coach of the Washington Redskins after just one season |
2003 |
Rock musician Pete Townshend of The Who was arrested in London on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children. He was later cleared. |
2003 |
30th American Music Award: Sheryl Crow & Eminem win |
2007 |
Two thirds of the Venus's southern hemisphere suddenly brightened as something triggered aerosols to form at a furious rate. |
2009 |
Global shipping experiences a drop in trade, as exports from South Korea dropping an annualised 30%, with Taiwan and Japan experiencing a 42% and 27% drop respectively |
2012 |
Cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground at Isola de Giglio, Italy, with at least 15 deaths |
2013 |
Argo wins the Golden Globe awards for best drama and best director |
2014 |
14 people are killed and 7 are injured after an explosion in an illegal gambling hall in Kaili City, China |
2014 |
Cristiano Ronaldo wins the 2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or |
2017 |
Obama Ends Exemption for Cubans Who Arrive Without Visas |
2017 |
Obama Surprises Joe Biden With Presidential Medal of Freedom |
2018 |
Trump sets off firestorm with 'shithole' remark |
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