Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 13

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  "Remnants of an Army" by Elizabeth Butler portraying William Brydon arriving at the gates of Jalalabad
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  Steve Ballmer in 2014
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  Painting of the 1797 naval battle by Léopold Le Guen
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  Émile Zola
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  Greek flag
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  Sylvanus Olympio
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  Johnny Cash

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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.	refimprove
896 – Emperor Zhaozong appointed Li Keyong as the Prince of Jin, who began his reign as first emperor of Jin following the collapse of the Tang dynasty in China.	unreferenced section
1822 – The design of the current flag of Greece was adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus for their naval flag.	refimprove sections
1879 – Record-setting English pedestrian Ada Anderson completed her U.S. debut, walking 2,700 quarter-miles (1,086 km in total) in 2,700 quarter-hours.	The "feats of pedestrianism" section lists December 1878 as the true date, and the source also seems to indicate that it was 12 Jan rather than 13 Jan
1898 – "J'Accuse…!", an open letter by French writer Émile Zola to President Félix Faure of the French Republic, was published by the Parisian newspaper L'Aurore, accusing the highest levels of the French Army of covering up the truth of the Dreyfus affair.	refimprove section
1976 – Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct an opera, La traviata, at the Metropolitan Opera.	date not in article, needs more footnotes
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.	refimprove section
1991 – Soviet troops attacked Lithuanian independence supporters at the TV Tower in Vilnius, killing 14 people.	needs more footnotes
Gaius Marius |d|86 BC|	Doubt raised about the true date of his death. See [1]
Sibyl Hathaway |b|1884|	Birthday not cited
Winnie Byanyima |b|1959|	Birthday not cited

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• 1435 – Pope Eugene IV promulgated the papal bull Sicut dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the native Guanche of the Canary Islands by the Spanish.
• 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 hundreds of deaths when the latter ran aground.
• 1815 – War of 1812: British troops captured Fort Peter in [[St. Marys, Georgia|Template:Nowrap, Georgia]], in the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
• 1842 – First Anglo-Afghan War: William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British Army, was the sole European of the 14,000 people retreating from Kabul to Jalalabad who evaded capture or death.
• 1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, informally ending the fighting of the Mexican–American War in California.
• 1915 – About 30,000 people were killed when an earthquake struck the Province of L'Aquila in Italy.
• 1949 – In the first recorded instance of Catholic laity performing a strike action against Catholic clergy, gravediggers at Calvary Cemetery in Queens went on strike.
• 1963 – Togo's first president, Sylvanus Olympio (pictured), was assassinated by military officers in a coup d'état led by Emmanuel Bodjollé, Étienne Eyadéma, and Kléber Dadjo.
• 1969 – British rock band Led Zeppelin released their first album, Led Zeppelin, in the United States.
• 1972 – Bernice Gera won a sex-discrimination lawsuit against the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, allowing her to become the first female professional baseball umpire.
• 2001 – The first of two large earthquakes struck El Salvador, killing at least 944 people and destroying over 100,000 homes.
• 2012 – The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef and capsized off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany.
• Born/died: | Æthelwulf, King of Wessex |d|858| Lucy Filippini |b|1672| George Fox |d|1690/1691| Salmon P. Chase |b|1808| Brynhild Olivier |d|1935| Nate Silver |b|1978 |Maon Kurosaki|b|1988| Marius Borg Høiby|b|1997| Guido Dessauer |d|2012

January 13: Eugenio María de Hostos's birthday in Puerto Rico (2025); Saint Knut's Day in Finland and Sweden Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1884 – Welsh physician William Price (pictured) was arrested for attempting to cremate his deceased infant son; this eventually led to the passing of the Cremation Act 1902 by Parliament.
• 1953 – Nine Moscow doctors were accused of a plot to poison members of the Soviet political and military leadership.
• 1968 – American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison in California.
• 1972 – Ghanaian military officer Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a coup to overthrow Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo.
• 2000 – Steve Ballmer replaced Bill Gates as the chief executive officer of Microsoft.