Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 13

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 * 1435 – Pope Eugene IV promulgated the papal bull Sicut dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the native Guanche of the Canary Islands by the Spanish.
 * 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.
 * 1842 – First Anglo-Afghan War: William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British Army, was the sole European of the 14,000 people retreating from Kabul to Jalalabad who evaded capture or death.
 * 1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, informally ending the fighting of the Mexican–American War in California.
 * 1915 – About 30,000 people were killed when an earthquake struck the Province of L'Aquila in Italy.
 * 1963 – Togo's first president, Sylvanus Olympio (pictured), was assassinated by military officers in a coup d'état led by Emmanuel Bodjollé, Étienne Eyadéma, and Kléber Dadjo.
 * 1972 – Bernice Gera won a sex-discrimination lawsuit against the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, allowing her to become the first female professional baseball umpire.
 * 2001 – The first of two large earthquakes struck El Salvador, killing at least 944 people and destroying over 100,000 homes.
 * 2012 – The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef and capsized off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany.
 * Born/died: | Æthelwulf, King of Wessex |d|858| Lucy Filippini |b|1672| George Fox |d|1690/1691|  Salmon P. Chase |b|1808| Brynhild Olivier |d|1935|   Nate Silver |b|1978 |Maon Kurosaki|b|1988 | Guido Dessauer |d|2012

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


 * 1884 – Welsh physician William Price (pictured) was arrested for attempting to cremate his deceased infant son; this eventually led to the United Kingdom cremation act becoming law.
 * 1953 – Nine Moscow doctors were accused of a plot to poison members of the Soviet political and military leadership.
 * 1968 – American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom Prison in California.
 * 1972 – Ghanaian military officer Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a coup to overthrow Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo.
 * 2000 – Steve Ballmer replaced Bill Gates as the chief executive officer of Microsoft.