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It is still celebrated as New Year's Eve by those on the Julian calendar (Old New Year). There are 352 days remaining (353 in a leap year).

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

References

External links

Events

★ 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople.

★ 888 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.

★ 1328 - Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault, daughter of the Count of Hainault.

★ 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey sentenced to death.

★ 1559 - Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.

★ 1602 - William Shakespeare's ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' is published.

★ 1605 - The controversial play ''Eastward Hoe'' by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.

★ 1607 - Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.

★ 1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th moon of Jupiter.

★ 1622 - Work on the printing of the First Folio of William Shakespeare is suspended.

★ 1625 - John Milton is admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge at the age of 16.

★ 1733 - James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina.

★ 1785 - John Walter publishes first issue of the ''Daily Universal Register'' (later renamed ''The Times'').

★ 1830 - Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.

★ 1832 - President Andrew Jackson writes Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

★ 1840 - The steamship ''Lexington'' burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.

★ 1842 - On this day Dr.William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.

★ 1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.

★ 1869 - National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C..

★ 1893 - The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting.

★ 1893 - US Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

★ 1898 - Emile Zola's ''J'accuse'' exposes the Dreyfus affair.

★ 1910 - Opera was broadcast on the radio for the first time — Enrico Caruso singing from the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera House.

★ 1915 - An Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.

★ 1930 - Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.

★ 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.

★ 1938 - Church of England accepts theory of evolution.

★ 1939 - The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.

★ 1942 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.

★ 1942 - The United States begins Japanese American internment.

★ 1942 - World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat. German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

★ 1953 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.

★ 1957 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.

★ 1958 - Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.

★ 1964 - Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.

★ 1964 - Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland.

★ 1966 - Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

★ 1968 - Johnny Cash records his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison

★ 1972 - Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong.

★ 1982 - Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. In a freaky coincidence, a Washington DC Metro Rail train derailed, killing 3 people.

★ 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.

★ 1990 - L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

★ 1991 - Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius.

★ 1992 - Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.

★ 2001 - An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.

Births

★ 1334 - King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)

★ 1562 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (d. 1601)

★ 1596 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)

★ 1610 - Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)

★ 1616 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)

★ 1622 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)

★ 1635 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)

★ 1651 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)

★ 1720 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808)

★ 1749 - Friedrich Müller, painter and dramatist (d. 1825)

★ 1805 - Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)

★ 1808 - Salmon P. Chase, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)

★ 1812 - Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)

★ 1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and author (d. 1899)

★ 1859 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (d. 1943)

★ 1861 - Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)

★ 1864 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)

★ 1866 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)

★ 1878 - Lionel Groulx, Canadian nationalist (d. 1967)

★ 1869 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1931)

★ 1884 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer and performer (d. 1966)

★ 1886 - Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 1964)

★ 1893 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)

★ 1893 - Clark Ashton Smith, American writer (d. 1961)

★ 1901 - Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)

★ 1904 - Richard Addinsell, British composer (Warsaw Concerto) (d. 1977)

★ 1905 - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)

★ 1909 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist (d. 1934)

★ 1911 - Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)

★ 1919 - Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)

★ 1924 - Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)

★ 1924 - Roland Petit, French choreographer

★ 1925 - Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000)

★ 1926 - Michael Bond, British writer

★ 1926 - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American feminist author (d. 2003)

★ 1927 - Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)

★ 1927 - Sydney Brenner, British Nobel Laureate

★ 1930 - Frances Sternhagen, American actress

★ 1930 - Liz Anderson, American singer

★ 1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)

★ 1934 - Rip Taylor, American actor

★ 1935 - Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress

★ 1935 - Mauro Forghieri, Italian engineer

★ 1938 - William B. Davis, Canadian actor

★ 1938 - Tord Grip, Swedish football manager

★ 1939 - Cesare Maniago, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1939 - Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer

★ 1940 - Edmund White, American author

★ 1941 - Pasqual Maragall, Spanish politician

★ 1943 - Richard Moll, American actor

★ 1943 - Carol Cleveland, English actress

★ 1946 - Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish musician

★ 1947 - Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of Kraków

★ 1948 - Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur

★ 1949 - Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997)

★ 1950 - Bob Forsch, American baseball player

★ 1950 - John McNaughton, American film director

★ 1954 - Trevor Rabin, South African guitarist (Yes)

★ 1955 - Jay McInerney, American writer

★ 1957 - Lorrie Moore, American writer

★ 1957 - Mark O'Meara, Major winning American Golfer

★ 1958 - Andrew Stanton, American actor and director

★ 1959 - James Lomenzo, American musician (Megadeth)

★ 1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress

★ 1961 - Graham McPherson, English singer

★ 1961 - Wayne Coyne, American singer (The Flaming Lips)

★ 1962 - Trace Adkins, American musician

★ 1963 - Kevin McClatchy, American businessman

★ 1964 - Penelope Ann Miller, American actress

★ 1966 - Patrick Dempsey, American actor

★ 1968 - Traci Bingham, American actress

★ 1968 - Mike Whitlow, English footballer

★ 1969 - Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player

★ 1969 - Stefania Belmondo, Italian cross-country skier

★ 1970 - Keith Coogan, American actor

★ 1970 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)

★ 1972 - Nicole Eggert, American actress

★ 1972 - Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast

★ 1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player

★ 1974 - Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player

★ 1976 - Tania Vicent, Canadian short track speed skater

★ 1977 - Orlando Bloom, English actor

★ 1980 - Krzysztof Czerwinski, Polish conductor and organist

★ 1980 - Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer

★ 1980 - Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player

★ 1981 - Reggie Brown, American football player

★ 1981 - Darrell Rasner, American baseball player

★ 1982 - Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player

★ 1983 - Julian Morris, English actor

★ 1983 - Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player

★ 1986 - Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater

★ 1989 - Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer

★ 1997 - Marius Borg Høiby, son of Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

Deaths

★ 86 BC - Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)

★ 703 - Empress Jitō of Japan (b. 645)

★ 858 - King Ethelwulf of Wessex (b. 795)

★ 888 - Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 839)

★ 1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)

★ 1151 - Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081)

★ 1177 - Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)

★ 1330 - Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)

★ 1363 - Meinhard III of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. 1344)

★ 1599 - Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)

★ 1630 - Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander (b. 1584)

★ 1658 - Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)

★ 1691 - George Fox, English founder of the Quakers (b. 1624)

★ 1766 - King Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)

★ 1775 - Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (b. 1693)

★ 1790 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)

★ 1796 - John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)

★ 1797 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)

★ 1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)

★ 1860 - William Mason, American politician (b. 1786)

★ 1864 - Stephen Foster, American composer (b. 1826)

★ 1885 - Schuyler Colfax,American politician (b.1823)

★ 1889 - Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)

★ 1906 - Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)

★ 1923 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)

★ 1924 - Georg Hermann Quincke, German phsycist (b. 1834)

★ 1929 - Wyatt Earp, American Western lawman (b. 1848)

★ 1932 - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870)

★ 1934 - Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)

★ 1941 - James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)

★ 1943 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)

★ 1962 - Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)

★ 1971 - Robert Still, English composer (b. 1910)

★ 1974 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)

★ 1974 - Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor (b. 1906)

★ 1978 - Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)

★ 1978 - Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (b. 1887)

★ 1979 - Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945)

★ 1980 - Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-born popular music conductor and arranger (b. 1901)

★ 1982 - Marcel Camus, French film director (b. 1912)

★ 1988 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)

★ 1993 - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)

★ 2001 - Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985)

★ 2002 - Ted Demme, American film director (b. 1963)

★ 2002 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (b. 1916)

★ 2003 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)

★ 2004 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber (b. 1937)

★ 2004 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946)

★ 2005 - Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1915)

★ 2005 - Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1924)

★ 2006 - Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)

★ 2006 - Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)

★ 2007 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)

★ 2007 - Danny Oakes, racecar driver (b. 1911)

Holidays and observances

★ In Sweden, Christmas ends on the 20th day, St. Knut's Day or Tjugondag Knut. Children celebrate a party throwing out the Christmas tree (''julgransplundring'').

★ In Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, in various Russophone communities, and in the Republic of Macedonia the Old New Year is celebrated (the New Year by the Old Style calendar) on the night of January 13/14.

★ In UK, as proposed by comedian Bob Mills on BBC Radio 5 Live's ''Fighting Talk'' this is the day beyond which the penalty for wishing someone a Happy New Year should be death.

★ Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm designated January 13 "Steve Yzerman Day."
===Religious feast days===

★ Hilary of Poitiers^[1]

★ January 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

References

1. Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. ''The Penguin Dictionary of Saints''. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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