January 13 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for January 13
In the headlines today:

2003	Toy retailer FAO Schwartz files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
1999	Basketball legend Michael Jordan announces his second retirement from the Chicago Bulls.
1995	Philippine authorities unearth a plot by militant Muslims to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit. (photo credit: NARA)
1995	Lamberto Dini becomes prime minister of Italy.
1992	Japan formally apologizes for forcing thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese troops during WWII.
1990	L. Douglas Wilder, the nation's first elected African-American governor, is sworn in in Richmond, Virginia.
1982	Seventy-eight people die in Washington, DC, when an Air Florida 737 crashes into a bridge after takeoff and falls into the Potomac River.
1978	Former US Vice President Hubert Humphrey dies in Waverly, MN, at age 66.
1966	Robert C. Weaver, the first African-American Cabinet member, is appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by US president Lyndon Johnson.
1962	Comedian Ernie Kovacs is killed in a car crash in Los Angeles.
1941	Novelist James Joyce dies during an eye operation in Zurich, Switzerland at age 58.
1937	The US government announces that Americans cannot actively participate in the Spanish Civil War.
1864	Composer Stephen Foster dies in New York at age 39, while recuperating from loss of blood after a fever-induced fall in his hotel room.
1799	President George Washington adds two stars and two stripes to the US flag, to honor the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the US. (The new stripes were later removed, restoring the total to 13.) (photo credit: NARA)