Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. It is still celebrated as New Year's Eve by those on the Julian calendar. There are 352 days remaining (353 in a leap year). Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 888 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks 1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California. 1854 - The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas. 1893 - The Independent Labor Party of the UK has its first meeting. 1898 - Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair. 1910 - The first radio broadcast. Inventor Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera 1935 - A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany 1942 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car 1953 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia 1957 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee 1966 - Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 1972 - Prime Minister of Ghana, Dr Kofi Busia's ousted in bloodless military coup 1982 - Shortly after takeoff, an Air Florida jumbojet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78. 1990 - L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia. 1992 - Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II. 1998 - ABC and ESPN negotiate a $1.15 billion a season contract to keep Monday Night Football. 1999 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls basketball team announces his retirement (for the second time -- he has since rescinded his retirement) 2001 - An earthquake hits El Salvador. More than 5,000 deaths. Births 1596 - Jan van Goyen, painter († 1656) 1653 - Philipp Jakob Spener, theologian († 1705) 1749 - Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricistand dramatist, also known as Maler Müller († 1825) 1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr, Unitarian minister, author († 1899) 1859 - Karl Bleibtreu, critic († 1928) 1866?- G. I. Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian mystic. He stated he was born at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve Julian calendar († 1949) 1864 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist († 1928) 1879 - Melvin Jones, founder of Lions Clubs International († 1961) 1884 - Sophie Tucker, singer, comedienne, vaudeville performer († 1966) 1919 - Army Archerd, Hollywood journalist 1919 - Robert Stack, actor († 2003) 1922 - Albert Lamorisse, film director († 1970) 1925 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer († 2000) 1926 - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (Amanda Cross) - feminist author († 2003) 1930 - Frances Sternhagen, actress 1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly, actor 1942 - Richard Moll, actor 1949 - Brandon Tartikoff, television executive († 1997) 1955 - Jay McInerney, writer 1960 - Kevin Anderson, actor 1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress 1964 - Penelope Ann Miller, actress 1966 - Patrick Dempsey, actor 1977 - Orlando Bloom, actor 1981 - James Stevens, film director and actor Deaths 858 - Ethelwulf, king of Wessex 1599 - Edmund Spenser, poet 1864 - Stephen Foster, composer of Camptown Races, Oh! Susannah 1929 - Wyatt Earp, Western legend 1941 - James Joyce, writer 1962 - Ernie Kovacs, actor, comedian 1978 - Hubert H. Humphrey - Vice President of the United States and former Senator from Minnesota 1978 - Joe McCarthy, baseball manager 1988 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China 2002 - Ted Demme film and television director 2004 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer, found dead in his cell 2004 - Arne Nĉss jr, Norwegian mountaineer and businessman Holidays and observances Catholicism - Baptism of the Lord. National Vocation Awareness Week. Lovers of Life International - Day of Orgiastic Life See Also: January 12 - January 14 - December 13 - February 13 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.