History Events on January 13

Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.

#Seraphim_of_Athens

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

#World_War_II

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.

#Andrew_Jackson

In Manchester, New Hampshire, fourteen-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside by the landmark Fourth Amendment case Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971).

#Manchester,_New_Hampshire

The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.

#Independent_Labour_Party

Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison.

#Johnny_Cash

British submarine HMS Truculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.

#HMS_Truculent_(P315)

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.

#Air_Florida_Flight_90

Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio.

#1963_Togolese_coup_d'état

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

#Henry_Ford

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.

#Aden

The Nika riots break out, during the racing season at the Hippodrome in Constantinople, as a result of discontent with the rule of the Emperor Justinian I.

#Nika_riots

U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

#United_States_Marine_Corps

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.

#French_Revolutionary_Wars

War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.

#War_of_1812

Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.

#Space_Shuttle_program

United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.

#Food_and_Drug_Administration

The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.

#Genoa

The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.

#New_Orleans

First Indochina War: The Battle of V?nh Yên begins.

#First_Indochina_War

The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to the captain Francesco Schettino's negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths.

#Cruise_ship

Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

#Robert_C._Weaver

In Mozart Gardens Brooklyn Ada Anderson completed a great feat of pedestrianism - 2700 quarter miles in 2700 quarter hours, earning her $8000.

#Ada_Anderson

The 6.7 Mw? Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978-32,610.

#1915_Avezzano_earthquake

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

#Émile_Zola

A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii caused widespread panic in the state.

#2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert

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

#National_Geographic_Society

Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.

#Douglas_Wilder

The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.

#Rhoads_Opera_House_fire

The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.

#Moroccan_Army_of_Liberation

The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

#Birth_of_public_radio_broadcasting

The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.

#Black_Friday_bushfires

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

#Treaty_of_Cahuenga

Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1000 others.

#January_Events_(Lithuania)

First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.

#First_Italo-Ethiopian_War

Second Anglo-Sikh War - Battle of Tooele: British forces retreat from the Sikhs.

#Second_Anglo-Sikh_War

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is sentenced to death for treason, on the grounds of having quartered his arms to make them similar to those of the King, Henry VIII of England.

#Henry_Howard,_Earl_of_Surrey

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.

#William_Brydon

Establishment of the Colony of Vancouver Island.

#Colony_of_Vancouver_Island

An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.

#January_2001_El_Salvador_earthquake

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.

#Chemical_Weapons_Convention

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

#Lexington_(steamship)

The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.

#Flag_of_Greece

Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.

#Lee_Teng-hui

Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.

A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.

Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.

Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.

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.

Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.

A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.

Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome

Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.