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Notable anniversaries in history for today: January 13
- 150th: 1874 - Battle between jobless and police in New York City, New York, hundreds injured.
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Jozef E van Roey; Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechlin.
- 150th: 1874 - US troops land in Honolulu, Hawaii to protect the king.
- 100th: 1924 - Georg H Quincke, German physicist (Test of Quincke), dies at age 89.
- 100th: 1924 - Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Rip Taylor; comedian (The Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show, Life With Bonnie, Santa Barbara).
- 90th: 1934 - Jean-Baptiste Marchand, soldier/explorer (Sudan), dies at age 70.
- 70th: 1954 - Military rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Trevor Rabin; guitarist (Yes - "Roundabout").
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Penelope Ann Miller in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Kindergarden Cop, Gwen - Popcorn Kids, Vanished, A Minute with Stan Hooper).
- 60th: 1964 - Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow, Poland.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Matt Lepsis; NFL tackle (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl XXXII).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Sergei Brylin in Moscow, Russia; NHL center (New Jersey Devils).
- 50th: 1974 - Super Bowl VIII: Miami Dolphins beat Minnesota Vikings, 24-7 in Houston, Texas; Most Valuable Player: Larry Csonka, running back.
- 40th: 1984 - Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore International, resigns as president and CEO. Tramiel founded the company in 1954 as a typewriter repair service.
- 30th: 1994 - Italian government of Ciampi resigns.
- 30th: 1994 - Johan J Holst, Norwegian minister of defense/foreign affairs, dies at age 56.
- 30th: 1994 - Tonya Harding's bodyguard Shawn Eric Eckardt, and Derrick Brian Smith are arrested and charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan.
- 30th: 1994 - Erich Honecker leaves Germany for Chile. Honecker had been the leader of German Democratic Republic. After the reunification there was the possibility of trying him for crimes against humanity, but due to his cancer he was allowed to leave Germany.
- 30th: 1994 - The Barona Indian tribe in the USA opens the largest tented casino in the world, at the Barona Casino near Lakeside, California, with a total of 105,000 square feet, including almost 1000 video gaming machines.
- 25th: 1999 - After 13 years of playing NBA basketball, superstar Michael Jordan announces his second retirement from basketball.
- 20th: 2004 - In England, serial killer Harold Shipman is found hanged in his cell at Wakefield Prison, four years after being convicted of murdering 15 patients in Cheshire. Shipman was blamed for the deaths of a further 200 patients at an inquest 18 months ago and some reports claimed that he may have murdered as many as 400 or 500 people.
- 15th: 2009 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel unveils an economic stimulus package worth about 50 billion euros (US$67 billion).
- 15th: 2009 - Ethiopian military forces begin pulling out of Somalia, where they have tried to maintain order for nearly two years.
- 15th: 2009 - Citigroup and Morgan Stanley agree to combine their brokerages, with Morgan Stanley paying Citigroup US$2.7 billion for a 51 percent stake in the joint venture. The new Morgan Stanley Smith Barney will have US$1.7 trillion in client assets.
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