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Holidays Calendar for January 13, 2016
January 13 is Democracy Day in Cape Verde. This holiday celebrates the first democratic elections that took place on January 13, 1991.
January 13 is one of the most important holidays in Togo. This is Liberation Day.
January 13 is a professional holiday for all the contributors of the printed matter in Russian Federation. This is Russian Press Day.
Korean American Day is a United States observance held on January 13. It is dedicated to all Korean Americans and their contributions to every aspect of American society. The Southern California Korean College Students Association (SCKCSA) organizes the annual Korean-American Day Seminar on the occasion.
Stephen Foster Memorial Day falls on January 13 and is observed annually since 1967.
January 13 is the day when candles are lit at Lithuanian schools to commemorate Freedom Defenders Day.
January 13 is National Peach Melba Day. It is a perfect day to indulge yourself in this tasty and simple dessert.
January 13 is a perfect day to enjoy a bubble bath since it is National Rubber Ducky Day. This amazing holiday was created to pay tribute to a popular toy that has been around for more than a century and is an iconic part of Western pop culture.
In different cultures, the end of the Christmas and holiday season in marked with different holidays. While in some countries celebrations cease after New Year’s Day, others continue with the festivities until Epiphany or some other holiday. In Sweden and Finland, for example, the festive season ends on St. Knut’s Day, celebrated on January 13.
Lohri is a midwinter folk festival celebrated primarily in the Punjab region of India. It is a solstice-related holiday that marks the end of winter. Lohri is observed according to the Vikrami calendar (Vikram Samvat) and usually falls around January 13 in the Gregorian calendar.
Festivals on January 13, 2016
- Carnival of Vevčani in Vevčani, North Macedonia
- M1 Singapore Fringe Festival in Singapore, Singapore
- North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, USA
- International Theatre Festival of Kerala in Thrissur, India
- Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Hwacheon, South Korea
- Gualeguaychú Carnival in Gualeguaychú, Argentina
- Dolomiti Balloonfestival in Toblach, Italy
- Sydney Festival in Sydney, Australia
- New Orleans Mardi Gras in New Orleans, USA
- Carnival in French Guiana in Cayenne, French Guiana
- Chennai International Film Festival in Chennai, India
- Carnival in Guadeloupe in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe
- St. Louis Mardi Gras in St. Louis, USA
- Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in Harbin, China
- Carnival of Limoux in Limoux, France
This Day in History
- 2013 Died: Jerry Sisk, Jr., American gemologist, co-founder of Jewelry Television.
- 1993 Endeavour was launched for the third time as STS-54 from the Kennedy Space Center in the context of Space Shuttle program.
- 1991 Born: Goo Hara, South Korean idol singer, model, dancer, and actress. She is known for being a member of Korean pop group Kara.
- 1986 Born: Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater. She is Canadian national champion, the 2010 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2009 World silver medalist, Four Continents silver medalist in 2008 and 2009 and the 2004 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist.
- 1985 A passenger train plunged into a ravine in Ethiopia, 428 killed. This is the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
- 1978 U.S. Food & Drug Administration required all blood donations to be labeled "volunteered" or "paid" donors.
- 1977 Died: Henri Langlois, French archivist, Langlois was a very influential figure in the history of cinema, co-founded the Cinémathèque Française and International Federation of Film Archives.
- 1977 Born: Orlando Bloom, English actor. Bloom received world fame for the role as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings. Among his other famous roles are Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean series and Paris in Troy.
- 1966 Born: Patrick Dempsey, American actor and race car driver. Dempsey is best known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy.
- 1960 Born: Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.
- 1958 Died: Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founder of Paramount Pictures.
- 1955 Born: Jay McInerney, American author and food critic. He publishes not only novels and short stories, but also works on screenplays. He was a co-author of the screenplay for Gia, which starred Angelina Jolie. Since 2010 works for The Wall Street Journal as the wine columnist.
- 1942 Born: Carol Cleveland, British actress and comedian. She is most notable for her appearance on Monty Python's Flying Circus as the only significant female performer.
- 1942 Henry Ford patented his plastic automobile, that was 30% lighter than a regular car.
- 1941 Died: James Joyce, Irish modern poet and author. His best known work is Ulysses, which is considered as the most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he perfected.
- 1934 Died: Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist, the discoverer of gamma rays.
- 1927 Born: Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate for the investigation of animal neural development.
- 1915 The 1915 Avezzano earthquake, Italy, killed over 30,000 people.
- 1910 The first public radio broadcast took place. A live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana was sent out from Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
- 1908 171 people burned alive in the Rhodays Opera House in Boyertown, Pennsylvania.
- 1885 Born: Alfred Fuller, Canadian-American businessman, founder of the Fuller Brush Company that sells branded and private label products for personal care and household cleaning.
- 1882 Died: Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer. Together with his brother designed the Mauser Model 1871 rifle (the most successful line of Mauser pistols and rifles) and co-founded The Mauser Company.
- 1864 Born: Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate for his work on heat radiation. Wien is also known for his formulation of an expression for the black-body radiation.
- 1840 The steamship Lexington burned and sank 4 miles off the coast of Long Island, 139 killed.
- 1832 Died: Thomas Lord, English first-class cricketer and founder of Lord's Cricket Ground. His venue is widely referred to as the "home of cricket" and it is the home to the world's oldest sporting museum.
- 1815 British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia. This was the only battle of War of 1812 that took place in the state.
- 1797 A naval battle between a French ship of the line and 2 British frigates off the coast of Brittany took place. The battle ended with French vessel running aground that resulted in over 900 deaths.
- 1691 Died: George Fox, English religious leader, founder of the Religious Society of Friends, which is commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.
- 1625 Died: Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter, known for his floral still lifes and paradise landscapes.
- 1599 Died: Edmund Spenser, English poet. Spenser is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse and one of the greatest poets in the English language.