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

• 1435 –
  Sicut Dudum is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV about the enslaving of black natives in Canary Islands by Spanish natives.
• 1607 –
  The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1958 –
  The Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
• 1964 –
  Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland.
• 1990 –
  L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

Who were born on January 13?

• 1808 –
  Salmon P. Chase, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)
• 1858 –
  Oskar Minkowski, Biologist (d. 1931)
• 1898 –
  Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978)
• 1904 –
  Richard Addinsell, British composer (Warsaw Concerto) (d. 1977)
• 1946 –
  Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish musician
• 1961 –
  Suggs, English singer (Madness)
• 1966 –
  Patrick Dempsey, American actor
• 1973 –
  Gloria Yip, Hong Kong actor
• 1981 –
  Reggie Brown, American football player
• 1991 –
  Goo Ha-ra, South Korean singer/actress/MC

Who died on January 13?

• 1151 –
  Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081)
• 1797 –
  Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)
• 1882 –
  Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer and manufacturer (b. 1834)
• 1967 –
  Anatole de Grunwald, British producer and screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 1974 –
  Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)
• 1979 –
  Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945)
• 1979 –
  Marjorie Lawrence, Australian soprano (b. 1907)
• 2006 –
  Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)
• 2008 –
  Sergei Larin, Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
• 2010 –
  Jay Reatard, American garage punk musician (b. 1980)