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Events

• 1900 (126 years ago) To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Franz Joseph decrees German will be language of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces.
• 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
• 1963 (63 years ago) Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio.
• 1972 (54 years ago) Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
• 1982 (44 years ago) Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
• 1985 (41 years ago) A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1,000 others.
• 2021 (5 years ago) Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection following the January 6 United States Capitol attack one week prior.

Births

• 1864 (162 years ago) Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)
• 1927 (99 years ago) Sydney Brenner, South African biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
• 1960 (66 years ago) Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1961 (65 years ago) Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress, comedian, and producer
• 1966 (60 years ago) Patrick Dempsey, American actor and race car driver
• 1977 (49 years ago) Orlando Bloom, English actor
• 1990 (36 years ago) Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
• 1997 (29 years ago) Luis Díaz, Colombian footballer

Deaths

• 86 BC Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (born 157 BC)
• 888 (1138 years ago) Charles the Fat, Frankish king and emperor (born 839)
• 1599 (427 years ago) Edmund Spenser, English poet, Chief Secretary for Ireland (born 1552)
• 1717 (309 years ago) Maria Sibylla Merian, German entomologist and illustrator (born 1647)
• 1906 (120 years ago) Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist and academic (born 1859)
• 1941 (85 years ago) James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1882)
• 1978 (48 years ago) Hubert Humphrey, American pharmacist, academic, and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (born 1911)
• 2012 (14 years ago) Rauf Denktaş, Turkish-Cypriot lawyer and politician, 1st President of Northern Cyprus (born 1924)

All 399 events, births and deaths of January 13