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 back to the original 13.)
1808 - Salmon P. Chase, U.S. senator, secretary of the treasury and chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Cornish, New Hampshire.
1893 - Britain's Independent Labor Party, a precursor to the Labor Party, first met.
1898 - Novelist Emile Zola's "J'accuse" - a defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew falsely convicted of treason - was published in a Paris newspaper.
1941 - A new law went into effect granting Puerto Ricans U.S. birthright citizenship.
1964 - Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland, by Pope Paul VI.
1966 - Robert C. Weaver became the first black Cabinet member as he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1968 - Country musician Johnny Cash recorded a live concert at Folsom Prison in California.
1978 - Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey died in Waverly, Minnesota at age 66.
1982 - An Air Florida 737 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., after takeoff and fell into the Potomac River, killing 78 people.
1989 - New York City subway gunman Bernhard H. Goetz was sentenced to one year in prison for possessing an unlicensed gun that he used to shoot four youths he said were about to rob him.
1990 - Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the first African American governor elected in the United States.
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, a U.S. soldier at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, reported U.S. abuses of Iraqi prisoners to the Army's Criminal Investigations Division.
2017 - Federal prosecutors in Detroit announced that Takata Corp. had agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal charge and pay $1 billion in fines and restitution for concealing a deadly defect in its air bag inflators.
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 in U.S. history to face impeachment charges twice; ten Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach Trump on a charge of "incitement of insurrection". (Trump would again be acquitted by the Senate in a vote after his term was over.)
2021 - The U.S. government carried out its first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades; a Kansas woman, Lisa Montgomery, who strangled an expectant mother in Missouri and cut the baby from her womb, received a lethal injection at a federal prison complex in Indiana.
2021 - Siegfried Fischbacher, part of the entertainment duo Siegfried and Roy who performed in Las Vegas with their famed white tigers, died at 81.
Birthdays
22 - Kensington Tillo (model)
24 - Isabella Souza (actress)
25 - Connor McDavid (hockey player)
27 - Natalia Dyer (actress)
32 - Liam Hemsworth (actor)
33 - Beau Mirchoff (actor)
39 - Julian Morris (actor)
40 - Ruth Wilson (actress)
41 - Ginger Zee (TV meteorologist)
43 - Jill Wagner (actress)
45 - Orlando Bloom (actor)
46 - Michael Pena (actor)
46 - Ross McCall (actor)
50 - Nicole Eggert (actress)
52 - Keith Coogan (actor)
54 - Traci Bingham (actress)
55 - Suzanne Cryer (actress)
56 - Patrick Dempsey (actor)
58 - Penelope Ann Miller (actress)
60 - Trace Adkins (singer)
61 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus (actress)
62 - Kevin Anderson (actor)
79 - Richard Moll (actor)
84 - Billy Gray (actor)
84 - Charlie Brill (comedian)
88 - Nick Clooney (TV personality)
92 - Frances Sternhagen (actress)
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Today in Sports History - January 13
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia Warriors) scored 73 points against the Chicago Packers, which was the most points ever scored in a single regulation game in NBA history.
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 defeated the Minnesota Vikings 24-7 in Houston to win Super Bowl VIII.
1982 - Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1984 - Wayne Gretzky extended his NHL consecutive scoring streak to 45 games.
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 of the Chicago Bulls announced his second retirement from the NBA. (He would un-retire 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-record 23 3-pointers on 37 attempts in a 139-107 win over the Sacramento Kings.
2019 - James Harden of the Houston Rockets records his 16th consecutive game scoring 30 or more points, matching Kobe Bryant's NBA record; Harden also goes 1-for-17 from the 3-point line, tying a record for the most misses.
2020 - #1 LSU defeats #3 Clemson 42-15 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship.
2020 - Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow are fired by team owner Jim Crane for their roles in the sign-stealing scandal after MLB suspends both 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 back to the original 13.)
1808 - Salmon P. Chase, U.S. senator, secretary of the treasury and chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Cornish, New Hampshire.
1893 - Britain's Independent Labor Party, a precursor to the Labor Party, first met.
1898 - Novelist Emile Zola's "J'accuse" - a defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew falsely convicted of treason - was published in a Paris newspaper.
1941 - A new law went into effect granting Puerto Ricans U.S. birthright citizenship.
1964 - Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland, by Pope Paul VI.
1966 - Robert C. Weaver became the first black Cabinet member as he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1968 - Country musician Johnny Cash recorded a live concert at Folsom Prison in California.
1978 - Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey died in Waverly, Minnesota at age 66.
1982 - An Air Florida 737 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., after takeoff and fell into the Potomac River, killing 78 people.
1989 - New York City subway gunman Bernhard H. Goetz was sentenced to one year in prison for possessing an unlicensed gun that he used to shoot four youths he said were about to rob him.
1990 - Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the first African American governor elected in the United States.
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, a U.S. soldier at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, reported U.S. abuses of Iraqi prisoners to the Army's Criminal Investigations Division.
2017 - Federal prosecutors in Detroit announced that Takata Corp. had agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal charge and pay $1 billion in fines and restitution for concealing a deadly defect in its air bag inflators.
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 in U.S. history to face impeachment charges twice; ten Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach Trump on a charge of "incitement of insurrection". (Trump would again be acquitted by the Senate in a vote after his term was over.)
2021 - The U.S. government carried out its first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades; a Kansas woman, Lisa Montgomery, who strangled an expectant mother in Missouri and cut the baby from her womb, received a lethal injection at a federal prison complex in Indiana.
2021 - Siegfried Fischbacher, part of the entertainment duo Siegfried and Roy who performed in Las Vegas with their famed white tigers, died at 81.
Birthdays
22 - Kensington Tillo (model)
24 - Isabella Souza (actress)
25 - Connor McDavid (hockey player)
27 - Natalia Dyer (actress)
32 - Liam Hemsworth (actor)
33 - Beau Mirchoff (actor)
39 - Julian Morris (actor)
40 - Ruth Wilson (actress)
41 - Ginger Zee (TV meteorologist)
43 - Jill Wagner (actress)
45 - Orlando Bloom (actor)
46 - Michael Pena (actor)
46 - Ross McCall (actor)
50 - Nicole Eggert (actress)
52 - Keith Coogan (actor)
54 - Traci Bingham (actress)
55 - Suzanne Cryer (actress)
56 - Patrick Dempsey (actor)
58 - Penelope Ann Miller (actress)
60 - Trace Adkins (singer)
61 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus (actress)
62 - Kevin Anderson (actor)
79 - Richard Moll (actor)
84 - Billy Gray (actor)
84 - Charlie Brill (comedian)
88 - Nick Clooney (TV personality)
92 - Frances Sternhagen (actress)
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Today in Sports History - January 13
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia Warriors) scored 73 points against the Chicago Packers, which was the most points ever scored in a single regulation game in NBA history.
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 defeated the Minnesota Vikings 24-7 in Houston to win Super Bowl VIII.
1982 - Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1984 - Wayne Gretzky extended his NHL consecutive scoring streak to 45 games.
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 of the Chicago Bulls announced his second retirement from the NBA. (He would un-retire 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-record 23 3-pointers on 37 attempts in a 139-107 win over the Sacramento Kings.
2019 - James Harden of the Houston Rockets records his 16th consecutive game scoring 30 or more points, matching Kobe Bryant's NBA record; Harden also goes 1-for-17 from the 3-point line, tying a record for the most misses.
2020 - #1 LSU defeats #3 Clemson 42-15 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship.
2020 - Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow are fired by team owner Jim Crane for their roles in the sign-stealing scandal after MLB suspends both for one year.
