Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 13
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January 13: St. Knut's Day (Christianity–Scandinavia)
- 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle off the coast of Brittany between two British frigates and a French ship of the line ended with over 900 deaths when the latter ran aground.
- 1898 – The Paris newspaper L'Aurore published "J'accuse...!", an open letter by French writer Émile Zola (pictured) to Félix Faure, the President of the Republic, exposing the Dreyfus affair.
- 1910 – The first public radio broadcast, a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana, was sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
- 1953 – An article published in Pravda accused some of the most prestigious doctors in the Soviet Union, mostly Jews, of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
- 1972 – Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a coup d'état to overthrow Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana.