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 13^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 352 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 31, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 482,424 hours 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 16 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 4,406 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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

• 888 –
  Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
• 1840 –
  The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
• 1869 –
  National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
• 1893 –
  The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
• 1893 –
  U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
• 1898 –
  Emile Zola’s J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
• 1910 –
  The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
• 1953 –
  An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
• 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.
• 1985 –
  A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.

Who were born on January 13?

• 1596 –
  Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
• 1886 –
  Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 1964)
• 1887 –
  Gabriel Gabrio, French actor (d. 1946)
• 1931 –
  Chris Wiggins, British actor
• 1956 –
  Janet Hubert-Whitten, American actress
• 1961 –
  Kelly Hrudey, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 –
  Suggs, English singer (Madness)
• 1967 –
  Annie Jones, Australian actress
• 1976 –
  Tania Vicent, Canadian short track speed skater
• 1987 –
  Sven Wetzel, German rugby player

Who died on January 13?

• 703 –
  Empress Jitō of Japan (b. 645)
• 888 –
  Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 839)
• 1838 –
  Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784)
• 1860 –
  William Mason, American politician (b. 1786)
• 1889 –
  Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)
• 1929 –
  Wyatt Earp, American Western lawman (b. 1848)
• 1979 –
  Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945)
• 1988 –
  Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
• 2009 –
  Dai Llewellyn Welsh socialite
• 2010 –
  Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B singer (b. 1950)