January 13 in history
Events on January 13
Notable events that happened on January 13 in past years.
- 2021
Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection following the January 6 United States Capitol attack one week prior.
Wikipedia article: President of the United States - 2004
Uzbekistan Airways Flight 1154 crashes while landing at Tashkent International Airport, killing 37.
Wikipedia article: Uzbekistan Airways Flight 1154 - 1998
Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.
Wikipedia article: Alfredo Ormando - 1991
Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1,000 others.
Wikipedia article: January Events - 1985
A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
Wikipedia article: Awash rail disaster - 1972
Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
Wikipedia article: Kofi Abrefa Busia - 1964
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).
Wikipedia article: Manchester, New Hampshire - 1950
British submarine HMS Truculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.
Wikipedia article: HMS Truculent (P315) - 1939
The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 sq mi) of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
Wikipedia article: Black Friday bushfires - 1908
The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
Wikipedia article: Rhoads Opera House fire - 1893
The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
Wikipedia article: Independent Labour Party - 1849
Second Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Chillianwala: British forces retreat from the Sikhs.
Wikipedia article: Battle of Chillianwala - 1833
United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President elect Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
Wikipedia article: Andrew Jackson - 1793
Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, is lynched by a mob in Rome.
- 27 BC
Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
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