Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 13
This is a list of selected January 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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"Remnants of an Army" by Elizabeth Butler portraying William Brydon arriving at the gates of Jalalabad -
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Battle between the French warship Droits de l'Homme and the frigates HMS Amazon and Indefatigable, 13 & 14 January 1797, by Leopold Le Guen -
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| 532 – The Nika riots began in Constantinople, resulting in nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people being killed. | refimprove section |
| 896 – Emperor Zhaozong appointed Li Keyong as the Prince of Jin, who began his reign as first emperor of Jin following the collapse of the Tang dynasty in China. | unreferenced section |
| 1822 – The design of the current flag of Greece was adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus for their naval flag. | refimprove sections |
| 1842 – First Anglo-Afghan War: William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British Army, arrived at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the sole European survivor of the massacre of over 4,500 military personnel and over 10,000 civilian camp followers retreating from Kabul, excluding a few prisoners released later. | Brydon: refimprove section; Retreat: unreferenced section |
| 1986 – The month-long South Yemen Civil War began in Aden between supporters of President Ali Nasir Muhammad and his predecessor Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties. | refimprove section |
| 1991 – Soviet troops attacked Lithuanian independence supporters at the TV Tower in Vilnius, killing 14 people. | needs more footnotes |
| 2001 – The first of two large earthquakes struck El Salvador, killing at least 944 people and destroying over 100,000 homes. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle off the coast of Brittany between two British frigates and a French ship of the line ended with hundreds of deaths when the latter ran aground.
- 1815 – War of 1812: British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
- 1878 – Ada Anderson, a record-setting pedestrian from England, made her U.S. debut, walking 2,700 quarter-miles (1,086 km total) in 2,700 quarter-hours.
- 1898 – "J'accuse…!", an open letter by French writer Émile Zola to President Félix Faure of the French Republic, was published by the Parisian newspaper L'Aurore, accusing the highest levels of the French Army of covering up the truth of the Dreyfus affair.
- 1915 – About 30,000 people in L'Aquila, Italy were killed when an earthquake struck the province.
- 1953 – An article published in Pravda accused some of the most prestigious physicians in the Soviet Union, mostly Jews, of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
- 1963 – Togo's first President, Sylvanus Olympio, was assassinated by military officers in a coup d'état led by Emmanuel Bodjollé, Étienne Eyadéma, and Kléber Dadjo.
- 1968 – American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at the Folsom State Prison in California.
- 2000 – Steve Ballmer replaced Bill Gates as Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft.
- Born/died: Michael Bond (b. 1926)
January 13: St. Knut's Day in Finland and Sweden
- 1435 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, was promulgated by Eugene IV.
- 1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, informally ending the fighting of the Mexican–American War in California.
- 1910 – The first public radio broadcast, a live performance of Cavalleria rusticana from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, was sent over the airwaves.
- 1972 – Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a coup d'état to overthrow Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana.
- 2012 – The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef (pictured) off the shore of Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, and partially sank.
Edmund Spenser (d. 1599) · George Fox (d. 1691) · Nate Silver (b. 1978)