SomeFacts | January 13

On this day - January 13

Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate ...

532 — The Nika riots break out, during the racing season at the ...

1435 — Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement by the Spanish of the ...

1547 — Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is sentenced to death for ...

1793 — Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of ...

1797 — French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ...

1815 — War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, ...

1822 — The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National ...

1833 — United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice ...

1840 — The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the ...

1842 — Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East ...

1847 — The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in ...

1849 — Second Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Chillianwala: British forces ...

1849 — Establishment of the Colony of Vancouver Island.

1888 — The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.

1893 — U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to ...

1893 — The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its ...

1895 — First Italo-Ethiopian War: The war's opening battle, the ...

1898 — Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.

1900 — To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Franz Joseph decrees ...

1908 — The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills ...

1915 — The 6.7 Mw Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of ...

1920 — The Reichstag Bloodbath of January 13, 1920, the bloodiest ...

1935 — A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish ...

1939 — The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometres ...

1942 — World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a ...

1942 — Henry Ford patents a soybean car, which is 30% lighter than a ...

1950 — Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People's ...

1950 — British submarine HMS Truculent collides with an oil tanker in ...

1951 — First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.

1953 — An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most ...

1958 — The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in ...

1963 — Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of ...

1964 — In Manchester, New Hampshire, fourteen-year-old Pamela Mason ...

1964 — Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, in response to ...

1966 — Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet ...

1968 — Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison.

1972 — Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward ...

1977 — Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045, a Douglas DC-8 jet, crashes ...

1978 — United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood ...

1982 — Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 ...

1985 — A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing ...

1986 — A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen ...

1988 — Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of ...

1990 — Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American ...

1991 — Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters ...

1993 — Operation Southern Watch: U.S.A.F., U.S.N., R.A.F. and French ...

1993 — The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.

1993 — Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third ...

1998 — Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's ...

2000 — A Short 360 aircraft chartered by the Sirte Oil Company ...

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

2003 — 208996 Achlys was discovered by Chad Trujillo and Michael E. ...

2012 — The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast ...

2018 — A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike ...

2020 — The Thai Ministry of Public Health confirms the first case of ...

2021 — Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second ...