January 13

Sunday 13, 2002:

US President George W. Bush faints after choking on a pretzel.

Saturday 13, 2001:

An earthquake hits El Salvador. More than 5,000 deaths.

Wednesday 13, 1999:

Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls basketball team announces his retirement (for the second time -- he has since rescinded his retirement).

Tuesday 13, 1998:

ABC and ESPN negotiate a $1.15 billion a season contract to keep Monday Night Football.

Monday 13, 1992:

Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.

Sunday 13, 1991:

Soviet military troops attacked Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius.

Saturday 13, 1990:

L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

Friday 13, 1989:

The final episode of the American soap opera Ryan's Hope is aired, ending a 14-year run on the network.

Monday 13, 1986:

A month-long violent struggle began in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.

Wednesday 13, 1982:

Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. Plane was not properly de-iced. There were five survivors.

Thursday 13, 1972:

Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana were ousted in a bloodless military coup by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.

Thursday 13, 1966:

Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Monday 13, 1958:

Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera

Sunday 13, 1957:

Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.

Tuesday 13, 1953:

Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia.

Tuesday 13, 1942:

The United States begins the iternment of Japanese-Americans living on the American west coast.

Sunday 13, 1935:

A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.

Monday 13, 1930:

Mickey Mouse comic strip makes first appearance.

Wednesday 13, 1915:

Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800

Monday 13, 1913:

Delta Sigma Theta, Sorority, Inc. founded. Currently the largest African-American women's organization

Thursday 13, 1898:

Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.

Friday 13, 1893:

US Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to protect the king and stop the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

Wednesday 13, 1869:

National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.

Friday 13, 1854:

The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas.

Wednesday 13, 1847:

The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.

Monday 13, 1840:

The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.

Friday 13, 1832:

President Andrew Jackson wrote Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

Wednesday 13, 1830:

Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves.

Thursday 13, 1785:

John Walter publishes first issue of the Daily Universal Register (later renamed The Times).

Tuesday 13, 1733:

James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston,South Carolina.

Monday 13, 1625:

John Milton, 16, admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge.

Thursday 13, 1622:

Work on the printing of the First Folio of William Shakespeare is suspended.

Wednesday 13, 1610:

Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter.

Saturday 13, 1607:

Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.

Thursday 13, 1605:

The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.

Sunday 13, 1602:

William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is published.

Tuesday 13, 1559:

Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey.

Monday 13, 1547:

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey sentenced to death

Tuesday 13, 1328:

Edward III of England marries Philippa, daughter of the Count of Hainault.

Friday 13, 1099:

Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria.

Tuesday 13, 888:

Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.

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