January 13th, 1979

Born on January 13th, 1979

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What happened on January 13th?

January 13th, 2012

The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia (pictured) ran aground on a reef and capsized off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany.

January 13th, 2001

The first of two large earthquakes in the span of a month struck El Salvador, killing at least 944 people and destroying over 100,000 homes.

January 13th, 2000

Steve Ballmer replaced Bill Gates as the chief executive officer of Microsoft.

January 13th, 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.

January 13th, 1968

American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison in California.

January 13th, 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.

January 13th, 1915

About 30,000 people were killed when an earthquake struck the Province of L'Aquila in Italy.

January 13th, 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.

January 13th, 1847

The Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, informally ending the fighting of the Mexican–American War in California.

January 13th, 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.

January 13th, 1815

British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, in the only battle of the War of 1812 to take place in the state of Georgia.

January 13th, 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.

January 13th, 1435

Pope Eugene IV promulgated the papal bull Sicut dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the native Guanche of the Canary Islands by the Spanish.

January 13th, 1916

The first Feminist Congress of Yucatán (delegates pictured) began in Mérida, Mexico, to propose reforms for women's social, educational, and legal rights.

January 13th, 1949

In the first recorded instance of strike action by Catholic laity against the clergy, gravediggers at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York City, went on strike.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 13th

Born on January 13th, 1979

47

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

34

María de Villota

Tor racing driver

*January 13th, 1979, Madrid †October 11th, 2013, Seville

47

Thomas Aeschi

Swiss politician

*January 13th, 1979, Zug

47

Gorka Otxoa

Spanish actor

*January 13th, 1979, San Sebastián

47

Katy Brand

English actress, comedian and writer

*January 13th, 1979, High Wycombe

47

Joko Winterscheidt

German TV presenter and producer

*January 13th, 1979, Mönchengladbach

47

Jill Wagner

American actress

*January 13th, 1979, Winston-Salem

47

Dennis Siver

German mixed martial artist

*January 13th, 1979, Omsk

47

Josep Pedrals i Urdàniz

Catalan poet

*January 13th, 1979, Barcelona

47

Jah Bami

Trinidad and Tobago musician

*January 13th, 1979, Trinidad and Tobago

47

Andrei Nikitenko

Russian ice hockey player

*January 13th, 1979, Tyumen

47

Bree Despain

American novelist

*January 13th, 1979, Salt Lake City

47

Teemu Elomo

Finnish ice hockey player

*January 13th, 1979, Turku

Same year
Born in 1979

47

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

47

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

47

Imany

French pop-soul singer

*April 5th, 1979, Martigues

46

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

46

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

47

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger

46

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

47

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

46

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

47

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

46

Hussain Al Jassmi

Emirati singer

*August 25th, 1979, Khor Fakkan

46

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

46

Hard Kaur

British Indian rapper

*July 29th, 1979, Kanpur

47

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

47

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

47

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

47

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

47

Diego Forlán

Uruguayan association football player and manager (born 1979)

*May 19th, 1979, Montevideo

47

Anne Schäfer

German actress

*April 23rd, 1979, Munich

47

Claire Danes

American actress

*April 12th, 1979, Manhattan

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 13th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Old New Year's Eve , Sidereal winter solstice's eve celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; the last day of the six-month Dakshinayana period) which are celebrated on January 13th.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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