What are the important events that happened on January 13? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 13: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 13 is the 13th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 353 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 31, 2023 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,418,400 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘tridecagon’ day.
Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 28 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,040 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 13: This Day In History
It is still celebrated as New Year’s Eve (at least in the 20th & 21st centuries) by countries still using the thirteen-day-slower Julian calendar (Old New Year).
January 13 Historical Events
- 1547 –Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
- 1815 –War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
- 1842 –Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
- 1869 –National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
- 1908 –The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
- 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.
- 1951 –First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, which will end in a major victory for France.
- 1982 –Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC’s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
- 1993 –Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
Who were born on January 13?
- 1805 –Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
- 1858 –Oskar Minkowski, Biologist (d. 1931)
- 1869 –Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1931)
- 1901 –Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)
- 1927 –Sydney Brenner, British Nobel Laureate
- 1962 –Trace Adkins, American country music singer-songwriter
- 1969 –Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
- 1982 –Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
- 1987 –Daniel Oss, Italian cyclist
- 1987 –Sven Wetzel, German rugby player
Who died on January 13?
- 86 BC –Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
- 1717 –Maria Sibylla Merian, naturalist and scientific illustrator (b. 1647)
- 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)
- 1967 –Anatole de Grunwald, British producer and screenwriter (b. 1910)
- 2001 –Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985)
- 2004 –Zeno Vendler, American philosopher of language (b. 1921)
- 2005 –Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1924)
- 2009 –Dai Llewellyn Welsh socialite
- 2009 –Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
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