January 13
1733 - James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, while en route to settle in present-day Georgia.
1794 - President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.)
1898 - French writer Emile Zola published his "J'Accuse" letter, accusing the French of a cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus treason case.
1941 - A new law went into effect granting Puerto Ricans U.S. birthright citizenship.
1964 - Roman Catholic Bishop Karol Wojtyla (the future Pope John Paul II) was appointed Archbishop of Krakow, Poland, by Pope Paul VI.
1982 - An Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River while trying to take off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people, including four motorists on the bridge; four passengers and a flight attendant survived.
1987 - West German police arrested Mohammed Ali Hamadi, a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner and the killing of a U.S. Navy diver who was on board. (Although convicted and sentenced to life, Hamadi was paroled by Germany in December 2005 and returned home to Lebanon.)
1990 - Douglas Wilder became the nation's first elected African-American governor when he took office in Virginia.
1992 - Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for its soldiers during World War II, citing newly uncovered documents that showed the Japanese army had had a role in abducting the so-called "comfort women."
2000 - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates stepped aside as chief executive and promoted company president Steve Ballmer to the position.
2001 - An earthquake estimated by the U.S. Geological Survey at magnitude 7.7 struck El Salvador; more than 840 people were killed.
2002 - After 17,162 performances, "The Fantasticks" ended its almost 42-year off-Broadway run.
2004 - Joseph Darby, an American soldier at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, reported U.S. abuses of Iraqi prisoners to the Army's Criminal Investigations Division.
2013 - A Cairo appeals court overturned Hosni Mubarak's life sentence and ordered a retrial of the former Egyptian president for failing to prevent the killing of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled his regime. (Mubarak was later ordered released.)
2018 - A false alarm that warned of a ballistic missile headed for Hawaii sent the islands into a panic, with people abandoning cars on a highway and preparing to flee their homes; officials apologized and said the alert was sent when someone hit the wrong button during a shift change.
2020 - At a royal family summit in eastern England, Queen Elizabeth II brokered a deal to secure the future of the monarchy; it would allow Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, to live part-time in Canada.
2021 - President Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives over the violent January 6 siege of the Capitol, becoming the only president to face impeachment charges twice; ten Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach on a charge of "incitement of insurrection." (Trump would be acquitted again by the Senate in a vote that came after his term was over.)
2022 - The Supreme Court found that the Biden administration had overstepped its authority by requiring that employees at large businesses get a COVID-19 vaccine or test regularly and wear a mask on the job; the court allowed the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers.
Birthdays
24 - Kensington Tillo (model)
27 - Connor McDavid (hockey player)
29 - Natalia Dyer (actress)
34 - Liam Hemsworth (actor)
35 - Beau Mirchoff (actor)
41 - Julian Morris (actor)
42 - Ruth Wilson (actress)
43 - Ginger Zee (TV host)
47 - Orlando Bloom (actor)
48 - Michael Pena (actor)
48 - Ross McCall (actor)
52 - Nicole Eggert (actress)
54 - Keith Coogan (actor)
56 - Traci Bingham (actress)
57 - Suzanne Cryer (actress)
58 - Patrick Dempsey (actor)
60 - Penelope Ann Miller (actress)
62 - Trace Adkins (singer)
63 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus (actress)
64 - Kevin Anderson (actor)
86 - Billy Gray (actor)
86 - Charlie Brill (comedian)
90 - Nick Clooney (TV personality)
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Today in Sports History - January 13
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scored 73 points against the Chicago Packers.
1968 - Bill Masterson (Minnesota North Stars) was injured when he was checked into the boards. He died two days later. He was the first casualty in the NHL.
1974 - The Miami Dolphins defeat the Minnesota Vikings 24-7 to win Super Bowl VIII.
1982 - Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1983 - The American Medical Association urges a ban on boxing citing Muhammad Ali's deteriorating medical condition.
1986 - The NCAA adopted the controversial "Proposal 48," which set standards for Division 1 freshman eligibility.
1998 - The NFL completed a $9.2 billion deal to keep "Monday Night Football" on ABC and the entire Sunday night cable package for ESPN.
1999 - Michael Jordan announced his second retirement from the NBA. (He would unretire again in 2001.)
2001 - The Atlanta Hawks retire Dominique Wilkins' #21.
2003 - The NHL's Buffalo Sabres filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2005 - Major League Baseball adopted a steroid-testing program that suspended first-time offenders for 10 days and randomly tested players year-round.
2005 - The NFL fined Randy Moss (Minnesota Vikings) $10,000 for pretending to pull down his pants and moon the Green Bay Packer crowd during a playoff win the previous weekend.
2008 - The Orlando Magic knock down a then NBA record 23 3-pointers on 37 attempts (62.2%) in a 139-107 win over the Sacramento Kings.
2019 - James Harden of the Houston Rockets ties Kobe Bryant's record of 16 consecutive games scoring 30 or more points.
2020 - LSU defeats Clemson 42-15 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship Game.
2020 - The Houston Astros fire manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow for their roles in a sign-stealing scandal; Major League Baseball also suspended the pair for one year.
1733 - James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, while en route to settle in present-day Georgia.
1794 - President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.)
1898 - French writer Emile Zola published his "J'Accuse" letter, accusing the French of a cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus treason case.
1941 - A new law went into effect granting Puerto Ricans U.S. birthright citizenship.
1964 - Roman Catholic Bishop Karol Wojtyla (the future Pope John Paul II) was appointed Archbishop of Krakow, Poland, by Pope Paul VI.
1982 - An Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River while trying to take off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people, including four motorists on the bridge; four passengers and a flight attendant survived.
1987 - West German police arrested Mohammed Ali Hamadi, a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner and the killing of a U.S. Navy diver who was on board. (Although convicted and sentenced to life, Hamadi was paroled by Germany in December 2005 and returned home to Lebanon.)
1990 - Douglas Wilder became the nation's first elected African-American governor when he took office in Virginia.
1992 - Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for its soldiers during World War II, citing newly uncovered documents that showed the Japanese army had had a role in abducting the so-called "comfort women."
2000 - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates stepped aside as chief executive and promoted company president Steve Ballmer to the position.
2001 - An earthquake estimated by the U.S. Geological Survey at magnitude 7.7 struck El Salvador; more than 840 people were killed.
2002 - After 17,162 performances, "The Fantasticks" ended its almost 42-year off-Broadway run.
2004 - Joseph Darby, an American soldier at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, reported U.S. abuses of Iraqi prisoners to the Army's Criminal Investigations Division.
2013 - A Cairo appeals court overturned Hosni Mubarak's life sentence and ordered a retrial of the former Egyptian president for failing to prevent the killing of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled his regime. (Mubarak was later ordered released.)
2018 - A false alarm that warned of a ballistic missile headed for Hawaii sent the islands into a panic, with people abandoning cars on a highway and preparing to flee their homes; officials apologized and said the alert was sent when someone hit the wrong button during a shift change.
2020 - At a royal family summit in eastern England, Queen Elizabeth II brokered a deal to secure the future of the monarchy; it would allow Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, to live part-time in Canada.
2021 - President Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives over the violent January 6 siege of the Capitol, becoming the only president to face impeachment charges twice; ten Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach on a charge of "incitement of insurrection." (Trump would be acquitted again by the Senate in a vote that came after his term was over.)
2022 - The Supreme Court found that the Biden administration had overstepped its authority by requiring that employees at large businesses get a COVID-19 vaccine or test regularly and wear a mask on the job; the court allowed the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers.
Birthdays
24 - Kensington Tillo (model)
27 - Connor McDavid (hockey player)
29 - Natalia Dyer (actress)
34 - Liam Hemsworth (actor)
35 - Beau Mirchoff (actor)
41 - Julian Morris (actor)
42 - Ruth Wilson (actress)
43 - Ginger Zee (TV host)
47 - Orlando Bloom (actor)
48 - Michael Pena (actor)
48 - Ross McCall (actor)
52 - Nicole Eggert (actress)
54 - Keith Coogan (actor)
56 - Traci Bingham (actress)
57 - Suzanne Cryer (actress)
58 - Patrick Dempsey (actor)
60 - Penelope Ann Miller (actress)
62 - Trace Adkins (singer)
63 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus (actress)
64 - Kevin Anderson (actor)
86 - Billy Gray (actor)
86 - Charlie Brill (comedian)
90 - Nick Clooney (TV personality)
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Today in Sports History - January 13
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scored 73 points against the Chicago Packers.
1968 - Bill Masterson (Minnesota North Stars) was injured when he was checked into the boards. He died two days later. He was the first casualty in the NHL.
1974 - The Miami Dolphins defeat the Minnesota Vikings 24-7 to win Super Bowl VIII.
1982 - Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1983 - The American Medical Association urges a ban on boxing citing Muhammad Ali's deteriorating medical condition.
1986 - The NCAA adopted the controversial "Proposal 48," which set standards for Division 1 freshman eligibility.
1998 - The NFL completed a $9.2 billion deal to keep "Monday Night Football" on ABC and the entire Sunday night cable package for ESPN.
1999 - Michael Jordan announced his second retirement from the NBA. (He would unretire again in 2001.)
2001 - The Atlanta Hawks retire Dominique Wilkins' #21.
2003 - The NHL's Buffalo Sabres filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2005 - Major League Baseball adopted a steroid-testing program that suspended first-time offenders for 10 days and randomly tested players year-round.
2005 - The NFL fined Randy Moss (Minnesota Vikings) $10,000 for pretending to pull down his pants and moon the Green Bay Packer crowd during a playoff win the previous weekend.
2008 - The Orlando Magic knock down a then NBA record 23 3-pointers on 37 attempts (62.2%) in a 139-107 win over the Sacramento Kings.
2019 - James Harden of the Houston Rockets ties Kobe Bryant's record of 16 consecutive games scoring 30 or more points.
2020 - LSU defeats Clemson 42-15 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship Game.
2020 - The Houston Astros fire manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow for their roles in a sign-stealing scandal; Major League Baseball also suspended the pair for one year.
