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, 1,736,726,400 seconds 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

• 1328 –
  Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault, daughter of the Count of Hainault.
• 1733 –
  James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina.
• 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.
• 1847 –
  The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
• 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.
• 1913 –
  Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
• 1964 –
  Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland.
• 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.
• 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?

• 1651 –
  Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)
• 1864 –
  Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
• 1905 –
  Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
• 1906 –
  Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist
• 1925 –
  Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000)
• 1939 –
  Cesare Maniago, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1949 –
  Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997)
• 1955 –
  Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1968 –
  Traci Bingham, American actress
• 1977 –
  Orlando Bloom, English actor

Who died on January 13?

• 1860 –
  William Mason, American politician (b. 1786)
• 1885 –
  Schuyler Colfax, American politician (b. 1823)
• 1923 –
  Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)
• 1932 –
  Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870)
• 1943 –
  Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)
• 1988 –
  Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
• 2004 –
  Zeno Vendler, American philosopher of language (b. 1921)
• 2009 –
  William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons (b. 1926)
• 2010 –
  Jay Reatard, American garage punk musician (b. 1980)
• 2010 –
  Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B singer (b. 1950)