Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 13
This is a list of selected January 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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"Remnants of an Army" by Elizabeth Butler portraying William Brydon arriving at the gates of Jalalabad -
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Battle between the French warship Droits de l'Homme and the frigates HMS Amazon and Indefatigable, 13 & 14 January 1797, by Leopold Le Guen
Ineligible
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| 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. | {{more footnotes}} |
| 1822 – The design of the current Flag of Greece was originally adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus for their naval flag. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, informally ending the fighting of the Mexican–American War in California. | {{refimprove}} |
| 1991 – Soviet troops attacked Lithuanian independence supporters at the TV Tower in Vilnius, killing 14 people. | {{more footnotes}} |
Eligible
- 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.
- 1842 – First Anglo-Afghan War: William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British Army, arrived at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the sole European survivor of the massacre of over 4,500 military personnel and over 10,000 civilian camp followers retreating from Kabul, excluding a few prisoners released later.
- 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.
- 1967 – General Gnassingbé Eyadéma seized power in Togo after a coup d'état, ruling as head of state until his death in February 2005.
- 1968 – American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at the Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California.
- 1972 – Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a coup d'état to overthrow Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana.
- 2001 – The first of two large earthquakes struck El Salvador, killing at least 944 people and destroying over 100,000 homes.
January 13: St. Knut's Day in Finland and Sweden
- 1815 – War of 1812: British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
- 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.
- 1915 – About 30,000 people in Avezzano, Italy—96% of its population—were killed when an earthquake struck the region.
- 1953 – An article published in Pravda accused some of the most prestigious physicians in the Soviet Union, mostly Jews, of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
- 1986 – The month-long South Yemen Civil War began in Aden between supporters of President Ali Nasir Muhammad and his predecessor Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.