Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 13
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January 13: St. Knut's Day (Christianity–Scandinavia), Old New Year (unofficial Eastern Orthodox Church tradition)
- 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.
- 1842 – When he reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became the sole European survivor of a party of over 4,500 military personnel and over 10,000 civilian camp followers retreating from Kabul, excluding a few prisoners released later.
- 1898 – The Paris newspaper L'Aurore published "J'accuse...!", an open letter by French writer Émile Zola (pictured) to French President Félix Faure exposing the Dreyfus affair.
- 1968 – American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at the Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California.
- 1991 – The January Events: Soviet troops attacked Lithuanian independence supporters at the TV Tower in Vilnius, killing 14 people.