13 Januar

The 13t o Januar is the 13t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 352 days ti come (353 in lowp years).

Events

• 1822 - The current Banner o Greece is adoptit.
• 1840 - A fire on the steamboat "Lexington" atween Manhattan an Stonington, Connecticut, kills 139 fowk.
• 1888 - The Unitit States's Naitional Geographic Society is foondit.
• 1904 - The current Banner o Sooth Australie is adoptit.
• 1915 - A magnitude 7.5 yirdquauk in Avezzano, Italy, kills ower 30,000 fowk.
• 1917 - A train crash in Ciurea, Romanie, kills atween 600 an 1,000 fowk.
• 1953 - Josip Broz Tito is chosen as Preses o Yugoslavie.
• 1963 - Togolese Preses Sylvanus Olympio is remuivit, an kilt, in a coup.
• 1964 - Riots in Calcutta kill 100 fowk.
• 1985 - A train crash near Awash, Ethiopie, kills at least 392 fowk.
• 1986 - Stairt o the Ceevil War in Sooth Yemen.
• 1986 - Uranus' muins Desdemona, Belinda an Rosalind are discoverit bi Voyager 2.
• 1990 - In Virginie, Douglas Wilder becomes the first African American govrenor o a US state.
• 1991 - 13 fowk are kilt bi Soviet troops in Vilnius, Lithuanie.
• 2001 - A yirdquauk in El Salvador kills ower 800 fowk.
• 2004 - Inglis medicinar an serial killer Harold Shipman commits suicide in gaol.
• 2012 - The first Winter Youth Olympics stairt in Innsbruck, Austrick.
• 2012 - Italian cruise ship "Costa Concordia" runs aground off the island o Giglio naur the coast o Tuscany, killin 33 fowk.
• 2018 - A false missile alert causes panic in Hawaii.
• 2019 - The Mayor o Gdansk in Poland, Pawel Adamowicz, is stobbit at a charity event, an dees the naxt day.
• 2021 - COVID-19 pandemic: The Unitit Kinrick's recordit daily COVID-19 daith toll surpasses 1,500.
• 2021 - A majority in the Unitit States Hoose o Representatives impeaches Preses Donald Trump for the seicont time.

Births

• 1804 - John Pringle Nichol, Scots eddicator, phrenologist, astronomer an economist (d. 1859)
• 1812 - Victor de Laprade, French poet (d. 1883)
• 1843 - David Ferrier, Scots neurologist an psychologist (d. 1928)
• 1864 - Wilhelm Wien, German pheesicist (d. 1928)
• 1875 - Barney Battles Sr., Scots fitbawer (d. 1905)
• 1906 - Zhou Youguang, Cheenese linguist (d. 2017)
• 1927 - Sydney Brenner, Sooth Africae biologist (d. 2019)
• 1938 - Cabu, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
• 1949 - Rakesh Sharma, Indian astronaut
• 1960 - Eric Betzig, American pheesicist
• 1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress
• 1966 - Patrick Dempsey, American actor
• 1969 - Stephen Hendry, Scots snooker player
• 1970 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
• 1976 - Mario Yepes, Colombian fitbawer
• 1977 - Orlando Bloom, Inglis actor
• 1984 - Raif Badawi, Saudi writer an activist
• 1986 - Joannie Rochette, Canadian feegur skeitcher
• 1990 - Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
• 1996 - Craig Storie, Scots fitbawer
• 1997 - Egan Bernal, Colombie cyclist

Daiths

• 614 - Saunt Mungo, Inglis-Scots bishop an saunt
• 1766 - Frederick V o Denmark (b. 1723)
• 1907 - Robert Herbert Story, Scots divine (b. 1835)
• 1916 - Victoriano Huerta, Preses o Mexico (b. 1854)
• 1929 - Wyatt Earp, American Western figure (b. 1848)
• 1941 - James Joyce, Erse novelist an poet (b. 1882)
• 1963 - Sylvanus Olympio, 1st Preses o Togo (b. 1902)
• 1978 - Hubert Humphrey, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1911)
• 1984 - Tommy Younger, Scots fitbawer (b. 1930)
• 2004 - Harold Shipman, Inglis medicinar an serial killer (b. 1946)
• 2021 - Philip Tartaglia, Scots airchbeeshop (b. 1951)
• 2021 - Siegfried Fischbacher, German-American magician an performer (b. 1939)

Halidays

• St. Knut's Day (Swaden, Finland)
• Constitution Day (Mongolie)
• Democracy Day (Cape Verde)