On this day...

1559 Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey
1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
1695 Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland
1733 James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC
1785 John Walter publishes first issue of London Times
1794 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes
1849 Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co
1854 Anthony Foss patents the accordion
1888 National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC)
1906 First radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile
1915 Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 30,000
1929 Humanist Society established, Hollywood CA
1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip first appears
1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast
1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies
1958 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban
1966 First black in Presidental cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C. Weaver-HUD)
1968 Minnesota North Stars center Bill Masterton is fatally injured
1974 Super Bowl VIII-Miami Dolphins-24, Minnesota Vikings-7
1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song
1982 Hank Aaron & Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame
1982 Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into the 14th St. Bridge in Washington, DC, & falls into the Potomac River, killing 78
1983 AMA urges ban on boxing, sites Muhammad Ali's deteriorating condition
1984 TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV
1985 99-year-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course
1985 Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428
1986 Bloody coup overthrows government of South Yemen
1986 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
1989 "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
1989 Jerry Parks, University of Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate
1989 Soap opera "Ryan's Hope" final episode
1989 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence

Birthdays which occurred on January 13th:

1628 Charles Perrault, France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose)
1802 Eduard von Bauernfeld, Vienna, comedic playwright
1808 Salmon P. Chase, (Senator-R) cabinet member, 6th Chief Justice (1864-73)
1834 Horatio Alger, Jr., Revere MA, author (Lost at Sea, Work & Win)
1885 Alfred Fuller, CEO (Fuller Brush Man)
1913 Jeff Morrow, New York NY, actor (Bart-Union Pacific, Temperatures Rising)
1918 Ted Willis, screenwriter (It's Great to be Young)
1919 Army Archerd, Hollywood columnist/TV host (Movie Game)
1919 Robert Stack, Los Angeles CA, actor (Eliot Ness-Untouchables, Airplane)
1923 Jack Watling, London, actor (Nanny, Adventure for 2, Naked Heart)
1925 Gwen Verdon, Louisiana, actress/singer/dancer (Cotton Club, Sweet Charity)
1925 Rosemary Murphy, Munich Germany, actress (Margaret-Lucas Tanner)
1928 David Sheiner, New York NY, actor (Paul-Mr Novak, Norman-Diana)
1930 Frances Sternhagen, Washington DC, actress (Outland, Starting Over)
1931 Charles Nelson Reilly, New York NY, actor (Match Game, Ghost & Mrs. Muir)
1933 Ron Goulart, American writer (Cheap Thrills)
1934 Rip Taylor, comedian (Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show)
1938 Billy Gray, Los Angeles CA, actor (Bud-Father Knows Best)
1943 Richard Moll, California, actor (Night Court, House, Dungeonmaster, Survivor)
1952 Cornelius Bumpus, keyboardist (Doobie Bros-Minute by Minute)
1955 Fred White, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
1961 Graham "Suggs" McPherson, rocker (Madness-Our House)
1961 Julia Louis-Dreyfus, New York NY, comedienne (Seinfeld)
1963 Penelope Ann Miller, actress (Gwen-Popcorn Kids)
1963 Tim Patrick Kelly, Trenton NJ, guitarist (Slaughter)
1970 Keith Coogan, actor (Adventures in Babysitting, Hiding Out)
1972 Nicole Eggert, California, actress (Charles in Charge, Chrissie-TJ Hooker, Summer-Baywatch)

Deaths which occurred on January 13th:

1599 Edmund Spenser, poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46
1691 George Fox, founder of Quakers, dies at 66
1864 Stephen Foster, (My Old Kentucky Home), dies in a NY hospital
1939 Jacob Ruppert, NY Yankee owner
1941 James Joyce, novelist, dies in Zurich, Switzerland, at 58
1962 Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West Los Angeles, at 42
1968 Bill Masterson, (Minnesota North Stars) checked into the boards & killed
1978 Hubert Humphrey, (Senator-D-MN, VP), dies at 66 in Waverly MN
1978 Joe McCarthy, NY Yankee manager dies at 90
1979 Donnie Hathaway, singer
1983 Arthur Space, actor (Doc Weaver-Lassie), dies of cancer at 74
1983 John McHugh, actor, dies of a heart attack at 69
1988 Ching-Kao Chiang, President of Taiwan, dies at 81