Today in History
13 January
Emile Zola
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13 January |
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| 1099 Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria | ||
| 1406 Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer (Della vita civile) was born | ||
| 1547 Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death | ||
| 1559 Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey |
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| 1596 Jan J Goyen, Dutch landscape painter was born | ||
| 1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter | ||
| 1621 Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta) | ||
| 1628 Charles Perrault, France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose) was born | ||
| 1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued | ||
| 1691 George Fox, British founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, died. | ||
| 1695 Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland | ||
| 1733 British MP James Edward Oglethorpe arrived at Charleston with 130 settlers to found a colony; he said he intended to call it Georgia in honor of King George II. | ||
| 1785 John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times | ||
| 1830 Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves | ||
| 1835 Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian jurist/minister of the Interior was born | ||
| 1838 William Lyon Mackenzie, after a failed rebellion against the British in Upper Canada, was arrested in the U.S. for violating neutrality laws. | ||
| 1842 At the end of an attempted retreat from Kabul, about 9,000 British troops were massacred in the Khyber Pass. | ||
| 1849 British forces under Lord Gough defeated the Sikhs at the Battle of Chillianwallah, India. | ||
| 1854 Anthony Foss patents accordion | ||
| 1859 Karl Bleibtreu, German author (Revolution of Literature) was born |
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| 1864 Stephen Foster, American composer of songs such as "Swanee River," died. | ||
| 1864 The Zemstvo, or provincial assembly, was introduced throughout Russia. | ||
| 1874 US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king | ||
| 1883 Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430 | ||
| 1886 The Gold Coast in Africa was separated into the two colonies of Lagos and the Gold Coast | ||
| 1888 National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC) | ||
| 1893 The British Independent Labor Party was founded with Keir Hardie as its leader. | ||
| 1894 Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops | ||
| 1898 French author Emile Zola published his "J'Accuse" letter, accusing the French government of a cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus treason case. | ||
| 1902 Textile workers strike in Enschede Neth till June 1 | ||
| 1908 French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip | ||
| 1910 New York's Metropolitan Opera took part in the first live radio broadcast of opera, presenting "Pagliacci" and "Cavalleria Rusticana." | ||
| 1911 Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay | ||
| 1911 South Africa's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide | ||
| 1915 Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 29,800 | ||
| 1915 W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles | ||
| 1915 South African troops under Louis Botha occupied Swakopmund in German South West Africa | ||
| 1922 Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended | ||
| 1924 Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections |
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| 1927 US & Mexico battle over oil interests | ||
| 1935 In a plebiscite, the Saar region voted for incorporation into Germany. | ||
| 1939 Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco | ||
| 1942 Allied Conference for war trials | ||
| 1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast | ||
| 1942 Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration | ||
| 1943 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca | ||
| 1943 Hitler declares "Total War" | ||
| 1943 Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov | ||
| 1943 US infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal | Emile Zola |
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| 1953 Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14 | ||
| 1953 Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia | ||
| 1954 Milt rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested | ||
| 1959 De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts | ||
| 1959 King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence | ||
| 1963 Sylvanus Olympio, president of the Republic of Togo, was killed in a successful army coup led by Nicolas Grunitzky; Grunitzky was ousted by Etienne Eyedema on the same date in 1996. | ||
| 1964 Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow | ||
| 1967 Coup in Togo | ||
| 1969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album | ||
| 1972 In Ghana, a military coup by Colonel I.K. Acheampong deposed civilian prime minister K.A. Busia, who was in London for medical treatment. | ||
| 1976 Britain applied for credit of almost 1 billion pounds from the International Monetary Fund. | ||
| 1978 Former U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey died. | ||
| 1980 Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium | ||
| 1980 Togo's constitution becomes effective | ||
| 1981 A U.N.-sponsored Conference on Namibia in Geneva failed to agree on implementation of a plan for Namibia's independence. | ||
| 1982 77 people died in an air crash in the Potomac River, in Washington, D.C. | ||
| 1982 Bridge in Washington, DC, & falls into Potomac River, killing 78 | ||
| 1985 Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428 | ||
| 1987 W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking | ||
| 1989 Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq | ||
| 1989 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence | ||
| 1989 Computers across Britain were hit by the "Friday the 13th" virus. | ||
| 1991 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa | ||
| 1991 President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected | ||
| 1991 Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die | ||
| 1992 U.S. serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleaded guilty but insane to the murders of 15 young men and boys. | ||
| 1993 Former East German leader Erich Honecker, under whom the Berlin Wall was built, left a Berlin prison to fly to Chile after a court freed him because he was dying. | ||
| 1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit | ||
| 1994 Italian govt of Ciampi resigns | ||