Today is Monday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2025. There are 352 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Jan. 13, 2021, President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House over the violent Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol, becoming the only president to be twice impeached; ten Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach Trump on a charge of “incitement of insurrection.” (Trump would again be acquitted by the Senate in a vote after his term was over.)
Also on this date:
In 1733, James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, while en route to settle in present-day Georgia.
In 1794, President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.)
In 1941, a new law went into effect granting Puerto Ricans U.S. birthright citizenship.
In 1979, singer Donny Hathaway died in a fall from a hotel window in New York. He was 34. Hathaway was known for his duets with Roberta Flack and the holiday song “This Christmas.”
In 1982, an Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River while trying to take off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people, including four motorists on the bridge; four passengers and a flight attendant survived.
In 1990, L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation’s first elected Black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond.
In 1992, Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for its soldiers during World War II, citing newly uncovered documents that showed the Japanese army had a role in abducting the so-called “comfort women.”
Today’s birthdays:
- Golf Hall of Famer Mark O’Meara is 68.
- Actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus is 64.
- Country singer Trace Adkins is 63.
- Actor Patrick Dempsey is 59.
- TV producer-writer Shonda Rhimes is 55.
- Actor Orlando Bloom is 48.
- Actor Liam Hemsworth is 35.
- Actor Natalia Dyer is 30.
- NHL center Connor McDavid is 28.