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What happened in history on this day: January 13?
On January 13 in ...
- 1948 - First country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cincinnati, Ohio.
- 1973 - ABC airs the final episode of Alias Smith and Jones.
- 1975 - The NBC TV network begins airing The Smothers Brothers Show 60-minute comedy TV show in the USA.
- 1989 - ABC airs final episode of TV soap opera Ryan's Hope after 13.5-year run.
- 1997 - The first episode of TV series La Femme Nikita airs in the US.
- 1998 - ABC airs the 100th episode of NYPD Blue.
- 2001 - The TV series Disney's House of Mouse premieres, part of Disney's One Saturday Morning.
- 2008 - In Beverly Hills, California, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announces winners of the Golden Globe Awards at a press conference. The usual three-hour broadcast was scrapped due to threats of strikers and a boycott.
- Best Film Drama and Best Original Score: Atonement,
- Best Film Musical: Sweeny Todd,
- Best Actor: Johnny Depp in Sweeny Todd.
- 2008 - In the USA, Fox airs the debut of the TV show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Births on January 13
- 1903 - Birth of Kay Francis [Katherine E Gibbs] in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; actress (False Madonna).
- 1913 - Birth of Jeff Morrow in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Bart - Union Pacific, Temperature's Rising).
- 1916 - Birth of Osa Massen in Copenhagen, Denmark; actress (Jack London, Rocketship XM).
- 1918 - Birth of Steve Dunne in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA; actor (The Adventures of Sam Spade radio show, Professional Father TV show, The Brothers Brannigan, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Brady Bunch, The Millionaire, Lux Video Theatre).
- 1919 - Birth of Army Archerd; Hollywood columnist/TV host (Movie Game).
- 1919 - Birth of Robert Stack in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Eliot Ness - The Untouchables, Airplane, The Name of the Game, Falcon Crest), host (Unsolved Mysteries).
- 1923 - Birth of Jack Watling in London, England; actor (Nanny, Adventure for Two, Naked Heart).
- 1925 - Birth of Gwen Verdon in Culver City, California, USA; actress/singer/dancer (Cotton Club, Sweet Charity, Damn Yankees, All My Children, Magnum PI, The Cosby Mysteries, Walker Texas Ranger).
- 1927 - Birth of Rosemary Murphy in Munich, Germany; actress (All My Children, Margaret - Lucas Tanner, Another World, EZ Streets).
- 1928 - Birth of David Sheiner in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Paul - Mr Novak, Norman - Diana, Mission Impossible, Blind Ambition).
- 1928 - Birth of Gregory Walcott in Wilson, North Carolina, USA; actor (87th Precinct, Bonanza, Laramie, Rawhide).
- 1929 - Birth of Wim Bary; Dutch actor/theater director (Nice Boys).
- 1930 - Birth of Frances Sternhagen in Washington DC, USA; actress (Outland, Starting Over, ER, Sex and The City, Cheers).
- 1931 - Birth of Charles Nelson Reilly in New York City, New York, USA; American actor (Match Game, Ghost and Mrs Muir) (dies 2007).
- 1934 - Birth of Rip Taylor; comedian (The Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show, Life With Bonnie, Santa Barbara).
- 1938 - Birth of Billy Gray in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Bud - Father Knows Best).
- 1943 - Birth of Richard Moll in California, USA; actor (Night Court, House, Dungeonmaster, Survivor).
- 1949 - Birth of Brandon Tartikoff in Freeport, New York, USA; NBC TV executive (Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Cheers, Miami Vice, The Golden Girls, St. Elsewhere, Night Court, Highway to Heaven, Matlock, Empty Nest).
- 1952 - Birth of Sharon Gabet in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA; actress (Raven - Edge of Night, Brittany - Another World, Melinda - One Life to Live).
- 1956 - Birth of Janet Hubert-Whitten; actress (Vivian Banks - Fresh Prince of Bel Air).
- 1959 - Birth of Kevin Anderson in Illinois, USA; actor (Hoffa, Sleeping with the Enemy).
- 1960 - Birth of Kevin Anderson; actor (Nothing Sacred, Skin).
- 1961 - Birth of Julia Louis-Dreyfus in New York City, New York, USA; comedienne (Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, Day by Day, Soul Man, Troll, New Adventures of Old Christine).
- 1964 - Birth of Penelope Ann Miller in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Kindergarden Cop, Gwen - Popcorn Kids, Vanished, A Minute with Stan Hooper).
- 1966 - Birth of Patrick Dempsey in Lewiston, Maine, USA; actor (Mike - Fast Times, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Can't Buy Me Love, Face The Music, Grey's Anatomy).
- 1968 - Birth of Traci Bingham; actress (The Dream Team, BattleBots, Baywatch).
- 1970 - Birth of Keith Coogan in Palm Springs, California, USA; actor (Adventures in Babysitting, Hiding Out, The Waltons, The MacKenzies of Paradise Cove).
- 1970 - Birth of Keith Mitchell in Palm Springs, California, USA; actor (Jeffrey - The Waltons, Gun Shy).
- 1972 - Birth of Nicole Eggert in Glendale, California, USA; actress (Charles in Charge, Chrissie - TJ Hooker, Summer - Baywatch, Home Fires).
Deaths on January 13
- 1958 - Edna Purviance, actress (Charlie Chaplin, Sunnyside), dies at age 61.
- 1969 - Wilton Graff, actor (Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn), dies at age 65.
- 1976 - Margaret Leighton, British actress (Much Ado About Nothing), dies at age 53.
- 1982 - Marcel Camus, French director (Orfeu Negro), dies at age 69.
- 1983 - John McHugh, actor (Unspeakable), dies of a heart attack at age 69.
- 1983 - Arthur Space, actor (Doc Weaver - Lassie), dies of cancer at age 74.
- 1989 - Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at age 51.
- 1992 - Yvonne Bryceland, actress (Road to Mecca), dies of cancer at age 66.
- 1993 - Death of Ken Anderson in La Cañada Flintridge, California; worked on Disney animated films, Disneyland attractions, named a Disney Legend in 1991.
- 1996 - Denise Grey [Edouardine Verthuy], actress (Julietta), dies at age 99.
- 2002 - Death of Frank Shuster of the Canadian comic duo Wayne and Shuster (born 1916).
- 2023 - Death of Al Brown at age 83 of complications from Alzheimer's disease in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; actor (Police Commissioner Stan Valchek - The Wire TV show).
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