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Events on the 13th of January in history

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13 Jan 0532 Nika riots in Constantinople.
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13 Jan 0888 Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
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13 Jan 0888 Duke Odo becomes king of West-France
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13 Jan 1099 Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria
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13 Jan 1435 Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
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13 Jan 1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
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13 Jan 1559 Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey
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13 Jan 1607 The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
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13 Jan 1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
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13 Jan 1621 Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta)
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13 Jan 1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
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13 Jan 1666 French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrived in Dhaka and met Shaista Khan.
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13 Jan 1673 Jean Racine's "Mithridate" premieres in Paris
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13 Jan 1695 Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland
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13 Jan 1733 James Oglethorpe and 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, South Carolina
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13 Jan 1770 De Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis" premieres in Paris
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13 Jan 1785 John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times
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13 Jan 1793 Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
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13 Jan 1794 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes
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13 Jan 1797 French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.
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13 Jan 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.
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13 Jan 1822 The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
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13 Jan 1830 The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.
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13 Jan 1830 Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves
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13 Jan 1833 United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
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13 Jan 1840 The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
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13 Jan 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, Afghanistan.
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13 Jan 1847 The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.
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13 Jan 1849 Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co
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13 Jan 1854 Anthony Foss patents the accordion
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13 Jan 1863 Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet
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13 Jan 1863 Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, New York City NY
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13 Jan 1865 Federals attack Fort Fisher NC
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13 Jan 1869 National convention of black leaders meets in Washington, D.C.
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13 Jan 1869 Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention
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13 Jan 1873 PBS Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana Governor
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13 Jan 1874 Battle between jobless and police in NYC, 100s injuried
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13 Jan 1874 US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king
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13 Jan 1874 Battle between jobless & police in New York City NY, 100s injured
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13 Jan 1882 Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"
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13 Jan 1883 Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende" premieres in Oslo
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13 Jan 1883 Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430
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13 Jan 1888 National Geographic Society founded (Washington DC)
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13 Jan 1893 U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
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13 Jan 1893 The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
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13 Jan 1893 British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)
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13 Jan 1894 Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
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13 Jan 1895 First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
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13 Jan 1895 Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband" premieres in London
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13 Jan 1898 Émile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
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13 Jan 1898 Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris
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13 Jan 1902 Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1
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13 Jan 1906 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile
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13 Jan 1908 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Ottawa Victorias in 2 games
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13 Jan 1908 The Rhoads Opera House Fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
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13 Jan 1908 French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip
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13 Jan 1908 Montr
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13 Jan 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, New York.
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13 Jan 1910 JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows" premieres in Dublin
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13 Jan 1911 South Africa's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide
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13 Jan 1911 Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay
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13 Jan 1911 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten" premieres in Berlin
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13 Jan 1912 -40
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13 Jan 1913 Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
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13 Jan 1914 IWW-leader / songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia
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13 Jan 1915 An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
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13 Jan 1915 W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles
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13 Jan 1919 Dutch Soccer team OSV forms
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13 Jan 1920 New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly
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13 Jan 1922 Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended
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13 Jan 1922 Buck Weaver, a Black Sox, applies unsuccessfully for reinstatement
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13 Jan 1922 WHA-AM in Madison WI begins radio transmissions
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13 Jan 1924 Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections
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13 Jan 1927 US & Mexico battle over oil interests
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13 Jan 1929 Humanist Society established, Hollywood, California
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13 Jan 1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
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13 Jan 1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
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13 Jan 1934 The Candidate of Sciences degree is established in the Soviet Union.
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13 Jan 1935 A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
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13 Jan 1935 Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany
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13 Jan 1939 The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
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13 Jan 1939 Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco
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13 Jan 1942 World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
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13 Jan 1942 Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
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13 Jan 1942 Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration
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13 Jan 1942 Allied Conference for war trials
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13 Jan 1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies
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13 Jan 1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast
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13 Jan 1943 Hitler declares "Total War"
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13 Jan 1943 US infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal
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13 Jan 1943 Russian offensive at Don under General Golikov
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13 Jan 1943 Hitler declares "Total War"
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13 Jan 1943 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca
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13 Jan 1945 Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow
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13 Jan 1948 1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cincinnati OH
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13 Jan 1949 "Along 5th Avenue" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 performances
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13 Jan 1949 "Along 5th Avenue" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City NY for 180 performances
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13 Jan 1951 First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins, which will end in a major victory for France.
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13 Jan 1951 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/US agents; known as the Doctors' Plot
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13 Jan 1951 German General F Christian freed early from Dutch prison
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13 Jan 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.
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13 Jan 1953 Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia
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13 Jan 1953 KOLD TV channel 13 in Tucson, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting
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13 Jan 1953 Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14
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13 Jan 1954 WEAR TV channel 3 in Pensacola-Mobile, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting
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13 Jan 1954 Military rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested
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13 Jan 1957 Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee
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13 Jan 1957 Mickey Wright wins Sea Island Golf Open
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13 Jan 1957 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate
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13 Jan 1958 US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication
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13 Jan 1958 The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
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13 Jan 1958 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban
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13 Jan 1959 King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence
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13 Jan 1959 De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts
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13 Jan 1960 The Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union is officially abolished.
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13 Jan 1962 "Do Re Mi" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 400 performances
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13 Jan 1962 "Do Re Mi" closes at St James Theater New York City NY after 400 performances
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13 Jan 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of Philadelphia Warriors scores NBA-record 73 points vs Chicago
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13 Jan 1963 Coup d'état in Togo results in assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio
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13 Jan 1963 NFL Pro Bowl East beats West 30-20
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13 Jan 1963 AFL Pro Bowl West beats East 21-14
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13 Jan 1964 Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Kraków, Poland.
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13 Jan 1964 Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.
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13 Jan 1964 Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow
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13 Jan 1966 Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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13 Jan 1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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13 Jan 1966 1st black selected for Presidential cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)
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13 Jan 1967 Coup in Togo
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13 Jan 1967 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
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13 Jan 1968 "Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 293 performances
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13 Jan 1968 "Illya Darling" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 320 performances
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13 Jan 1968 Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison
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13 Jan 1968 Minnesota North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th)
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13 Jan 1968 Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam
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13 Jan 1968 "Illya Darling" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City NY after 320 performances
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13 Jan 1968 "Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 293 performances
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13 Jan 1969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
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13 Jan 1969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
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13 Jan 1972 Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
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13 Jan 1972 Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire
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13 Jan 1973 "Tricks" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 8 performances
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13 Jan 1973 Efskind skates world record 1000m (1 17.6)
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13 Jan 1973 "Tricks" closes at Alvin Theater New York City NY after 8 performances
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13 Jan 1974 Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
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13 Jan 1974 Super Bowl VIII Miami Dolphins beat Minnesota Vikings, 24-7 in Houston; Super Bowl MVP Larry Csonka, Miami, Running Back
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13 Jan 1976 Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at NY's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata"
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13 Jan 1978 United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
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13 Jan 1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song
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13 Jan 1979 Charlie Daniels hosts the Volunteer Jam
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13 Jan 1980 "King of Schnorrers" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 63 performances
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13 Jan 1980 Togo's constitution becomes effective
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13 Jan 1980 Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium
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13 Jan 1980 "King of Schnorrers" closes at Playhouse Theater New York City NY after 63 performances
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13 Jan 1981 Barbara Sonntag, Colo, crochets record 147 stitches / min for 1 / 2 hour
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13 Jan 1981 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson & Howard Nemerov
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13 Jan 1981 Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick-4 goals
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13 Jan 1981 Barbara Sonntag, Colorado, crochets record 147 stitches/minutes for 30 minutes
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13 Jan 1982 Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
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13 Jan 1982 Hank Aaron & Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame
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13 Jan 1982 Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into the 14th St Bridge in Washington, DC, & falls into the Potomac River, killing 78
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13 Jan 1983 Qu
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13 Jan 1983 AMA urges ban on boxing cites Muhammad Ali's deteriorating condition
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13 Jan 1984 TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV
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13 Jan 1985 23rd Tennis Federation Cup: Czech beats USA in Nagoya Japan (2-1)
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13 Jan 1985 A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
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13 Jan 1985 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $17,1000,000
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13 Jan 1985 Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428
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13 Jan 1985 Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders
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13 Jan 1985 99-year-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course
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13 Jan 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.
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13 Jan 1986 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
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13 Jan 1986 Bloody coup overthrows government of South Yemen
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13 Jan 1987 W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking
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13 Jan 1987 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
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13 Jan 1988 LA Dodger / SD Padre Steve Garvey retires
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13 Jan 1988 Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
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13 Jan 1988 Los Angeles Dodger/San Diego Padre Steve Garvey retires
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13 Jan 1988 Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays & other expressive activities
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13 Jan 1989 "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
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13 Jan 1989 Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th" virus
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13 Jan 1989 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
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13 Jan 1989 Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
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13 Jan 1989 Soap opera "Ryan's Hope" final episode after 13
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13 Jan 1989 Jerry Parks, Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate
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13 Jan 1990 Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
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13 Jan 1990 a seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.
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13 Jan 1990 1st elected US black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)
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13 Jan 1991 Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding 1000.
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13 Jan 1991 Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die
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13 Jan 1991 President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected
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13 Jan 1991 Phil Mickelson wins PGA Northern Telecom Golf Open
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13 Jan 1991 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa
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13 Jan 1991 UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad
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13 Jan 1991 12th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 25 awards
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13 Jan 1992 US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane
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13 Jan 1992 Excavation of new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) begins
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13 Jan 1993 Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena - Cowboys beat Bills
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13 Jan 1993 Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
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13 Jan 1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
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13 Jan 1994 Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan
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13 Jan 1994 Italian government of Ciampi resigns
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13 Jan 1995 America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an America's Cup race
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13 Jan 1995 26 HNL teams unanimously ratify agreement to end NHL strike
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13 Jan 1998 "Patti LaBelle On Broadway, " opens at St. James Theater, New York City
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13 Jan 1998 CBS pays $4 billion to televise AFC games for 8-years
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13 Jan 2000 Bill Gates resigns as CEO of Microsoft.
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13 Jan 2001 An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
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13 Jan 2012 The opening ceremony of the Winter Youth Olympics takes place in Innsbruck, Austria.
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13 Jan 2012 The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy. There are 32 confirmed deaths amongst the 4232 passengers and crew.
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