Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 13, 2021

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 * 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.
 * 1815 – War of 1812: British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, in the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
 * 1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, informally ending the fighting of the Mexican–American War in California.
 * 1910 – The first public radio broadcast, a live performance of Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci from the old Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, took place.
 * 1915 – About 30,000 people in L'Aquila, Italy, were killed when an earthquake struck the province.
 * 1963 – Togo's first president, Sylvanus Olympio, was assassinated by military officers in a coup d'état led by Emmanuel Bodjollé, Étienne Eyadéma, and Kléber Dadjo.
 * 1972 – Ghanaian military officer Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a coup d'état to overthrow Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo.
 * 1972 – Bernice Gera won a sex discrimination lawsuit against the National Association of Baseball Leagues, allowing her to become the first female professional umpire.
 * 2000 – Steve Ballmer replaced Bill Gates as the chief executive officer of Microsoft.
 * 2012 – The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef off the shore of Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, and partially sank.
 * Born/died: | Æthelwulf, King of Wessex |d|858| Edmund Spenser |d|1599| Sibyl Hathaway |b|1884| Michael Bond |b|1926| Brynhild Olivier |d|1935| Winnie Byanyima |b|1959| Nate Silver |b|1978

January 13: Saint Knut's Day in Finland and Sweden


 * 1435 – Pope Eugene IV promulgated the papal bull Sicut dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the native Guanche of the Canary Islands by the Spanish.
 * 1884 – Welsh physician William Price was arrested for attempting to cremate his deceased infant son; he was acquitted in the subsequent trial, which eventually led to the legalisation of cremation in the United Kingdom.
 * 1953 – An article published in Pravda accused nine eminent doctors in Moscow of taking part in a plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
 * 1968 – American singer Johnny Cash (pictured) recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison in California.
 * 2001 – The first of two large earthquakes struck El Salvador, killing at least 944 people and destroying over 100,000 homes.