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Sunday, January 13, 2013

This will be 13th day of the year and 352 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 2 Shevat 5773
Chinese calendar — the 2nd day of the 12th month of 4710 (Ren Chen)
Islamic calendar — (note)

January 13 Birthdays

Horatio Alger
1832–1899, American writer.

Jan van Goyen
landscape painter (1596)

Salmon P. Chase
public official and jurist (1808)

Elmer Davis
radio commentator (1890)

Gwen Verdon
dancer, actor (1925)

Charles Nelson Reilly
actor, theater director (1931)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus
actress (1961)

Patrick Dempsey
actor (1966)

Orlando Bloom
actor (1977)

January 2013

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

January 13 in History

1898

French writer Emile Zola published his "J'Accuse" letter, accusing the French of a cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus treason case.

1941

Novelist James Joyce died in Zurich.

1990

Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the first elected African-American governor in the United States.

1999

Michael Jordan announced his second retirement from the NBA. He would "unretire" again in 2001.

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..

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.