January 13......

January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 352 (353 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

It is still celebrated as New Year's Eve by those on the Julian calendar (Old New Year).

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople.

● 888 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.

● 1099 - Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria

● 1328 - Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault, daughter of the Count of Hainault.

● 1501 - The world's first hymnbook printed in the vernacular was published in Prague. It contained 89 hymns in the Czech language. (The name of the hymnal is no longer known, since the only surviving copy lacks the title page.)

● 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey sentenced to death.

● 1559 - Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.

● 1602 - William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is published.

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

● 1607 - Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.

● 1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th moon of Jupiter.

● 1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta)

● 1622 - Work on the printing of the First Folio of William Shakespeare is suspended.

● 1625 - John Milton is admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge at the age of 16.

● 1630 - Patent to Plymouth Colony issued

● 1635 - Birth of Philip Jacob Spener, founder of German pietism. The name for the Bible studies (called "collegia pietatis") held in his home came to be associated with his followers, who were afterward called Pietists.

● 1691 - Death of George Fox, 67, English founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Fox left the Anglican church at 23 and founded the Quaker movement in 1660 at age 36.

● 1695 - Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland

● 1733 - James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina.

● 1777 - Jefferson gets Virginia to make "sodomy" punishable by castration.

● 1785 - John Walter publishes first issue of the Daily Universal Register (later renamed The London Times).

● 1794 - U.S. President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union.

● 1808 - Salmon P. Chase, U.S. senator, secretary of the treasury and chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Cornish, N.H.

● 1810 - Birth of Ernest Rose, utopian socialist.

● 1830 - Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins, blamed on rebel slaves.

● 1832 - President Andrew Jackson writes Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

● 1840 - The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.

● 1842 - On this day Dr.William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.

● 1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.

● 1849 - Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co

● 1854 - Anthony Faas of Philadelphia, PA, patented the accordion.

● 1863 - Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, New York City NY

● 1863 - Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet

● 1864 - Songwriter Stephen Foster died at age 37.

● 1865 - Federals attack Fort Fisher NC

● 1869 - Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention

● 1869 - National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C..

● 1870 - Ross Granville Harrison , the American zoologist and pioneer in embryonic transplantation, was born.

● 1871 - Birth of Karl Liebinecht, German Spartacus League leader.

● 1873 - PBS Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana Governor

● 1874 - As unemployed workers demonstrate in New York City's Tompkins Square Park, mounted police officers charge into the crowd, indiscriminately clubbing adults and children, leaving hundreds of casualties. Police commissioner Abram Duryee boasts, (quote) - "It was the most glorious sight I have ever seen..." Except for the 1930s, the U.S. never knew a more serious economic catastrophe than the depression of 1873 to 1877. The four years left three million workers unemployed. Those with jobs face wage cuts, while the jobless go hungry. In the winter of 1873, 900 people starved to death, and 3,000 deserted their infants on doorsteps. Today's Tompkins Square Park demonstration is part of a wave of unemployed parades and bread riots across the nation. In Chicago, 20,000 people march. Even under police attack, workers in New York, Omaha, and Cincinnati refuse to disperse.

● 1874 - US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king

● 1883 - Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430

● 1888 - National Geographic Society founded (Washington DC)

● 1893 - The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting, with Keir Hardie as its leader.

● 1893 - US Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

● 1894 - Insurrection in Lunigiana, Italy as anarchists bands arm themselves in support of Sicilian victims of the State of Siege (beginning of January to repress the revolts against increased flour prices.) A military tribunal will condemn Luigi Molinari to 23 years imprisonment as the instigator of the insurrection. Following a movement of protest, Molinari was amnestied 20 months later.

● 1898 - Novelist Emile Zola blows the lid off rampant French anti-Semitism and a military cover up in the Dreyfus Affair with publication of "J'accuse!" Dreyfus was a Jewish army captain accused of spying and causing the loss of the war of 1870 with Germany. "J'accuse!" was written in a feverish two days, following the acquittal of the real culprit -- after three minutes deliberation. Published in an edition of 300,000 -- 10 times his publisher's normal printing -- it sold out within days. Zola accused the military of seeking scapegoats, and he galvanized public opinion in favor of Dreyfus. French anti-Semitism later culminated in the Vichy regime's persecution and deportation of 76,000 Jews from France between 1941-1944. Only 2,500 survived.

● 1898 - Birth of Kaj Munk. Danish playwright and priest, whose outspoken sermons and plays during World War II led to his murder. Believing the truths of Christianity can be realized only in action, his plays appealed to Danes to resist the occupiers. On January 4, 1944, Munk was taken from his home by the Gestapo and shot.

● 1900 - In Austria-Hungary, Emperor Franz Joseph decreed that German would be the language of the imperial army to combat Czech nationalism.

● 1902 - Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands 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

● 1910 - Opera was broadcast on the radio for the first time — Enrico Caruso singing from the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera House.

● 1911 - Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay

● 1912 - -40ºF (-40ºC), Oakland MD (state record)

● 1915 - W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles

● 1915 - An Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.

● 1919 - Chicano citrus workers strike in Covina, CA.

● 1920 - New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly

● 1921 - William Baird, militant coal miner leader, dragged out of jail cell and killed.

● 1922 - Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended

● 1924 - Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections

● 1927 - US & Mexico battle over oil interests

● 1928 - Ernst F. W. Alexanderson gave the first public demonstration of television.

● 1929 - Humanist Society established, Hollywood CA

● 1930 - Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.

● 1934 - the Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.

● 1935 - A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.

● 1936 - Baptist clergyman B.B. McKinney, 50, wrote the words and tune to the gospel song, "Wherever He Leads, I'll Go," a few days before the opening of a Sunday School convention in Alabama.

● 1938 - Church of England accepts theory of evolution.

● 1939 - Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco

● 1941 - Novelist James Joyce died at age 58.

● 1942 - German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast

● 1942 - Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration

● 1942 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.

● 1942 - The United States begins Japanese American internment.

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

● 1943 - British Prime Minister 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

● 1951 - German General F Christian freed early from Dutch prison

● 1951 - 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/US agents; known as the Doctors' Plot

● 1953 - Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14

● 1953 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.

● 1954 - Military rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested

● 1957 - Hungary - Death penalty enacted for strikers as government calls for order and quiet.

● 1957 - Wham-O began producing "Pluto Platters." This marked the true beginning of production of the flying disc, the Frisbee.

● 1958 - Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.

● 1958 - 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban

● 1958 - US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication

● 1959 - De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts

● 1959 - King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence

● 1962 - One hundred fifty members of the Committee of 100 (an anti-nuclear group) launch a sit-down protest at the U.S. consulate, Glasgow, Scotland.

● 1962 - Ernie Kovacs died in a car crash in west Los Angeles, CA.

● 1964 - An American B-52 carrying two nuclear weapons crashes near Cumberland, Maryland.

● 1964 Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.

● 1964 Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland.

● 1966 - Robert Weaver becomes the first black member of a presidential Cabinet when he is appointed by Lyndon Johnson as the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

● 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1967 - Coup in Togo

● 1968 - Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam

● 1968 - Johnny Cash records his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison

● 1970 - Three black prisoners killed by guard at California's Soledad Prison during melee.

● 1971 - Arrest of Pepe Beunza, first of many political conscientious objectors imprisoned in Spain.

● 1972 - New York rules a woman may become a professional baseball umpire.

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

● 1974 - A Gallup poll on religious worship showed that fewer Protestants and Roman Catholics were attending weekly services than ten years earlier, but that attendance at Jewish worship services had increased over the same period.

● 1978 - Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey died in Waverly, Minn., at age 66.

● 1979 - YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song

● 1980 - Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium

● 1980 - Togo's constitution becomes effective

● 1982 - Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. In a freaky coincidence, a Washington DC Metro Rail train derailed, killing 3 people.

● 1983 - AMA urges ban on boxing cites Muhammad Ali's deteriorating condition

● 1985 - Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428

● 1985 - Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $17,1000,000

● 1986 - The NCAA adopted the controversial "Proposal 48," which set minimal academic standards for Division 1 freshman eligibility.

● 1986 - "The Wall Street Journal" printed a real picture on its front page. The journal had not done this in nearly 10 years. The story was about artist, O. Winston Link and featured one of his works.

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

● 1987 - 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each

● 1987 - W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking

● 1988 - Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays & other expressive activities

● 1989 - Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq

● 1989 - Bernhard H. Goetz was sentenced to one year in prison for possession of an unlicensed gun that he used to shoot four youths he claimed were about to rob him. He was freed the following September.

● 1990 - L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

● 1991 - Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius. Bloodshed at Lithuanian TV station; Around 13 people are killed and at least 140 injured as Soviet troops continue to attack Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.

● 1991 - UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad

● 1991 - 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa

● 1991 - President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected

● 1991 - Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die

● 1992 - Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II. {Gee it only took over 45 years.}

● 1992 - Wisconsin serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer enters a plea of guilty but insane in 15 of the 17 murders he confessed to committing. Over a 13-year period beginning in 1982, Dahmer murdered at least 17 men and boys. Most victims were young, gay African Americans, who he lured to his home, promising to pay them money to pose for nude photographs. He then drugged and strangled them, often mutilating, and occasionally cannibalizing, their bodies afterwards. Dahmer was beaten to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver while performing cleaning duty in a bathroom at the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin. Scarver, a convicted murderer, also fatally beat the third man on their work detail, inmate Jesse Anderson, who was serving a life sentence for brutally killing his wife. Scarver's motive in killing the two men was not entirely clear; however, in his subsequent criminal trial he maintained that God told him to kill them both.

● 1993 - Allies bomb Iraq; American, British and French fighter jets carry out a series of bombing raids over southern Iraq.

● 1993 - Vigil against arrival of ship bringing plutonium for nuclear reactor, Tokai, Japan.

● 1993 - STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit

● 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 - Eight opposition groups sign plan for ending civil war in Algeria.

● 1997 - Shots heard at besieged embassy in Peru; Peruvian left-wing guerrillas holding 72 hostages open fire on police outside the Japanese Embassy in Lima.

● 1999 - Basketball player Michael Jordan announced his retirement {For the first time}. (He returned to the NBA in 2001.)

● 2000 - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates stepped aside as chief executive and promoted company president Steve Ballmer to the position.

● 2001 - An earthquake measuring magnitude 7.6 struck El Salvador; more than 840 people were killed.

● 2002 - The exhibit "In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." opened at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. More than 100 artists supplied the collection of 120 works of art.

● 2002 - Japan and Singapore signed a free trade pact that would remove tariffs on almost all goods traded between the two countries.

● 2002 - U.S. President George W. Bush fainted after choking on a pretzel.

● 2004 - Serial killer Shipman found hanged; Harold Shipman, who is believed to have killed more than 200 patients, is found hanged in his prison cell.

BIRTHS

● 1334 - King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)

● 1562 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (d. 1601)

● 1596 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)

● 1610 - Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1665)

● 1616 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)

● 1635 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)

● 1651 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)

● 1683 - Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760)

● 1720 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808)

● 1749 - Friedrich Müller, painter and dramatist (d. 1825)

● 1778 - Sir Isaac Goldsmid, English financier (d. 1859)

● 1805 - Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)

● 1808 - Salmon P. Chase, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)

● 1812 - Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)

● 1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and author (d. 1899)

● 1845 - Felix Tisserand, French astronomer (d. 1896)

● 1861 - Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)

● 1864 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)

● 1866 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)

● 1869 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1931)

● 1870 - Ross Granville Harrison, American zoologist (d. 1959)

● 1878 - Lionel Groulx, Canadian nationalist (d. 1967)

● 1884 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer and performer (d. 1966)

● 1886 - Art Ross, National Hockey League defenceman and executive (d. 1964)

● 1890 - Elmer Davis, American broadcaster/writer (d. 1958)

● 1893 - Clark Ashton Smith, American writer (d. 1961)

● 1901 - A.B. Jr. Guthrie, American novelist (d. 1991)

● 1904 - Richard Addinsell, British composer (Warsaw Concerto) (d. 1977)

● 1905 - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)

● 1909 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist (d. 1934)

● 1911 - Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)

● 1919 - Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)

● 1924 - Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)

● 1924 - Roland Petit, French choregrapher

● 1925 - Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000)

● 1926 - Michael Bond, British writer

● 1926 - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American feminist author (d. 2003)

● 1927 - Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)

● 1927 - Sydney Brenner, British Nobel Laureate

● 1930 - Frances Sternhagen, American actress

● 1930 - Liz Anderson, American singer

● 1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor

● 1934 - Rip Taylor, American actor

● 1935 - Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress

● 1938 - Billy Gray, Actor (''Father Knows Best'')

● 1938 - William B. Davis, Canadian actor

● 1938 - Tord Grip, Swedish football manager

● 1939 - Cesare Maniago, National Hockey League goaltender

● 1940 - Edmund White, American author

● 1941 - Pasqual Maragall, Spanish politician

● 1943 - Richard Moll, American actor (''Night Court'')

● 1943 - Carol Cleveland, English actress

● 1946 - Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish musician

● 1947 - Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of Kraków

● 1948 - Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur

● 1949 - Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997)

● 1950 - Bob Forsch, baseball player

● 1950 - John McNaughton, American film director

● 1954 - Trevor Rabin, South African guitarist (Yes)

● 1955 - Fred White, R&B musician (Earth, Wind and Fire)

● 1955 - Jay McInerney, American writer

● 1957 - Lorrie Moore, American writer

● 1958 - Andrew Stanton, American actor and director

● 1959 - James Lomenzo, American musician (Megadeth)

● 1960 - Kevin Anderson, Actor

● 1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress (''Seinfeld'')

● 1961 - Graham ''Suggs'' McPherson, English singer (Madness)

● 1961 - Wayne Coyne, American singer (The Flaming Lips)

● 1962 - Trace Adkins, American musician

● 1963 - Kevin McClatchy, American business man

● 1964 - Penelope Ann Miller, American actress

● 1966 - Patrick Dempsey, American actor ("Gray's Anatomy")

● 1968 - Traci Bingham, American actress (''Baywatch'')

● 1968 - Mike Whitlow, English footballer

● 1969 - Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player

● 1969 - Stefania Belmondo, Italian cross-country skier

● 1970 - Keith Coogan, American actor

● 1970 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)

● 1972 - Nicole Eggert, American actress

● 1972 - Vitaly Scherbo, Belarussian gymnast

● 1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian hockey player

● 1976 - Tania Vicent, Quebec short track speed skater

● 1977 - Orlando Bloom, English actor ("Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The Lord of the Rings" movies)

● 1980 - Krzysztof Czerwinski, Polish conductor and organist

● 1980 - Akira Kaji, Japanese National Football Player

● 1981 - Reggie Brown, American football player

● 1982 - Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player

● 1983 - Julian Morris, English actor

● 1986 - Joannie Rochette, Quebec figure skater

● 1991 - Kolby Holdren, Best looking guy ever

● 1997 - Marius Borg Høiby, son of Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

DEATHS

● 85 BC - Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician

● 703 - Empress Jitō of Japan (b. 645)

● 858 - King Ethelwulf of Wessex

● 888 - Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor

● 1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)

● 1151 - Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian

● 1177 - Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)

● 1330 - Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)

● 1363 - Meinhard III of Gorizia-Tyrol

● 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)

● 1599 - Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)

● 1630 - Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander

● 1658 - Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)

● 1691 - George Fox, English founder of the Quakers (b. 1624)

● 1766 - King Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)

● 1775 - Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (b. 1693)

● 1790 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)

● 1796 - John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)

● 1797 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)

● 1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)

● 1864 - Stephen Foster, American composer (b. 1826)

● 1906 - Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)

● 1923 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)

● 1929 - Wyatt Earp, American Western lawman (b. 1848)

● 1932 - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870)

● 1934 - Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)

● 1941 - James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)

● 1943 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)

● 1962 - Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)

● 1974 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)

● 1974 - Raoul Jobin, Quebec tenor (b. 1906)

● 1978 - Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)

● 1978 - Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (b. 1887)

● 1979 - Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945)

● 1980 - Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-born popular music conductor and arranger (b. 1901)

● 1982 - Marcel Camus, French film director (b. 1912)

● 1988 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)

● 1993 - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)

● 2001 - Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985)

● 2002 - Ted Demme, American film director (b. 1963)

● 2002 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (b. 1916)

● 2003 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)

● 2004 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber (b. 1937)

● 2004 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946)

● 2005 - Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1915)

● 2005 - Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1924)

● 2006 - Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)

● 2006 - Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)

● 2007 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Hilary of Poitiers
● St. Elian
● St. Agrecius
● St. Andrew of Trier
● St. Viventius
● St. Enogatus
● St. Erbin
● St. Glaphyra
● St. Gumesindus
● St. Hermylus
● St. Kentigern Mungo
● St. Leontius of Cuesaren
● Bl. Yvette

● Old Roman Catholic:
● Baptism of Jesus

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 31 (Civil Date: January 13)
● Apodosis of the Nativity of Christ.
● St. Melania the Younger, nun of Rome.
● St. Gelasius, monk of Palestine.
● St. Gaius, monk.
● St. Theophylactus of Ochrid.

● Greek Calendar:
● Ten Virgin Martyrs of Nicomedia.
● Martyrs Busiris, Gaudentius and Nemo.
● St. Zoticus, feeder of orphans.
● Repose of Metropolitan Peter Moghila of Kiev (1646).

● Lutheran:
● Commemoration of George Fox, renewer of society

● In Sweden, Christmas ends on the 20th day, St. Knut's Day. Children celebrate a party throwing out the Christmas tree (julgransplundring).

● In Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, in various Russophone communities, and in the Republic of Macedonia the Old New Year is celebrated (the New Year by the Old Style calendar) on the night of January 13/14.

● In UK, as proposed by comedian Bob Mills on BBC Radio 5 Live's Fighting Talk this is the day beyond which the penalty for wishing someone a Happy New Year should be death.

● Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm designated January 13 "Steve Yzerman Day."

● Ghana : Redemption Day (1972)

● Togo : Liberation Day (1963)

● US : Stephen Foster Memorial Day

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Switzerland : Meitlisunntig Festival-Woman in Villmergen War (1712) - ( Sunday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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