January 13: St. Knut's Day in Finland and Sweden
Wreck of the Costa Concordia
- 1435 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, was promulgated by Eugene IV.
- 1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, informally ending the fighting of the Mexican–American War in California.
- 1910 – The first public radio broadcast, a live performance of Cavalleria rusticana from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, was sent over the airwaves.
- 1972 – Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a coup d'état to overthrow Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana.
- 2012 – The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef (pictured) off the shore of Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, and partially sank.
Edmund Spenser (d. 1599) · George Fox (d. 1691) · Nate Silver (b. 1978)
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