13th of January

See also: Category: Holidays January 13

National

• Lithuania - Day of the Defenders of Freedom in Lithuania .
• Russia - Russian Press Day .

Religious

Catholicism

- memory of St. Hilarius of Pictavia ;

- memory of St. Mungo .

- in Sweden and Finland

Russian Orthodox Church

- giving the feast of the Nativity of Christ ;

- memory of the Monk Melania the Younger (Roman) (439);

- memory of the holy martyr Michael Berezin , presbyter (1937);

- memory of St. Peter the Grave , Metropolitan of Kiev (1646);

- memory of St. Dosifeus , Metropolitan of Zagreb, confessor of Serbia (1945);

- memory of the martyr Peter Troitsky (1938).

Name Day

• Catholic: Hilarius, Mungo.
• Orthodox: Vusiris, Gavdentiy, Gaius, Gelasius , Dosipheus , Irenaeus , Martina, Melania , Michael , Nema, Olympiodor, Peter , Salamin.

See also: Category: January 13 events

Until the 19th century

• 1703 - the first issue of the Vedomosti newspaper was published in Moscow . It was the first newspaper in Russia ; in 1992, Russian Press Day was established in honor of this event.

XIX century

• 1813 - Russian troops led by Emperor Alexander I under the command of Field Marshal M.I. Kutuzov crossed the Neman and, entering the Duchy of Warsaw, began the liberation of Europe from Napoleon .
• 1813 - Storming of Lankaran by the Russian detachment of Major General P. S. Kotlyarevsky .
• 1840 - The Lexington wheeled steamer crashed on its way from New York to . As a result of the fire that occurred on board the ship, 140 people were killed ^[2] .
• 1858 - the first Russian postage stamp was put into circulation.
• 1872 - the weather service began work in Russia ^[3] . Geophysical Observatory of St. Petersburg began to issue a daily newsletter with forecasts.
• 1874 - in Russia, the recruiting system was replaced by universal military service .
• 1898 - French writer Emile Zola sent an open letter (known as “I blame” ) to the French government regarding the Dreyfus affair .

XX century

• 1915 - Earthquake near Avezzano , Italy: 30 thousand dead
• 1934 - By the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, the degree of candidate of sciences was established .
• 1935 - on a plebiscite in the Saar region, the vast majority (more than 90%) vote for joining Germany .
• 1940 - the heroic drift in the ice of the Arctic of the icebreaker " George Sedov " was completed.
• 1943 - the catastrophe of the prototype "Junkers 290" near Stalingrad. 45 people were killed (mostly wounded German soldiers) - the largest aviation disaster of World War II.
• 1944 - the decision of the Leningrad City Executive Committee returned the historical names to 20 squares and streets of Leningrad (including Palace Square and Nevsky Prospect ) ^[4] .
• 1945 - The Great Patriotic War : the beginning of the East Prussian offensive operation of the Soviet Army .
• 1953 - In the Soviet Union , arrests began in the so-called “case of doctors” .
• 1957 - Wham-O launched Frisbee .
• 1967 - military coup in Togo .
• 1970 - The capitulation of Biafra ended the civil war in Nigeria .
• 1990 - Armenian pogroms began in Baku .
• 1991 - Soviet special forces and the Alpha group stormed the TV tower in Vilnius (13 people died). Celebrated in Lithuania as the Day of Defenders of Freedom.

21st Century

• 2001 - earthquake in El Salvador .
• 2007 - the remains of General Kappel are buried in the Donskoy Monastery (Moscow).
• 2009 - in Latvia 27 parties and public organizations called on their supporters to come to Dome Square and support the idea of ​​dissolving the Seimas .
• 2012 - the Costa Concordia cruise ship, carrying 4,234 people, crashed off the coast of Italy . 30 people died, two went missing ^[5] .
• 2015 - shelling of a bus near Volnovakha during the war in the Donbass .
• 2019 - the assassination of Pavel Adamovich , the mayor of Gdansk .

See also: Category: Born on January 13

Until the 19th century

• 1596 - Jan van Goyen (d. 1656 ), a Dutch landscape painter.
• 1598 - Francois Mansart (d. 1666 ), French architect, one of the founders of the traditions of classicism .

XIX century

• 1807 - Alexey Galakhov (d. 1892 ), historian of Russian literature .
• 1812 - Pierre Martin Victor Richard de Laprad (d. 1883 ), French poet, member of the French Academy .
• 1814 - Michelle Henry Godfroix (d. 1882 ), Minister of Justice of the Netherlands, fighter against anti-Semitism .
• 1826 - Yakov Alkhazov (d. 1896 ), Russian general, participant in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878.
• 1827 - Nikolai Beketov (d. 1911 ), one of the founders of physical chemistry and chemical dynamics .
• 1845 - Francois Tisserand (d. 1896 ), French astronomer, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences.
• 1849 - Vasily Obraztsov (d. 1920 ), Russian therapist , innovator in the field of diagnosis of diseases.
• 1859 - Maurice Paleologue (d. 1944 ), French diplomat, French ambassador to Russia during the October Revolution .
• 1863 - Aleko Konstantinov (killed in 1897 ), Bulgarian writer, journalist, public figure.
• 1864 - Wilhelm Wien (d. 1928 ), German physicist, Nobel laureate (1911).
• 1866 - Vasily Kalinnikov (d. 1901 ), Russian composer.
• 1877 - George Gurdjieff (d. 1949 ), Caucasian philosopher-mystic.
• 1878 - Vasily Shulgin (d. 1976 ), Russian politician, publicist, deputy of the II , III and IV State Duma of the Russian Empire , member of the White movement .
• 1880 - Vasily Struminsky (d. 1867 ), Soviet historian and theorist of pedagogy, historian of the Russian Church .
• 1893 - Chaim Soutine (d. 1943 ), Belarusian-French artist.
• 1896
  • Georgy Galkin (executed in 1938 ), Soviet military leader, commander of the Caspian military flotilla.
  • Roman Gul (d. 1986 ) - Russian writer, emigrant, journalist, publicist, historian, critic, memoirist, public figure.
  • Nikolai Pechkovsky (d. 1966 ), opera singer, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1898 - Vasily Vanin (d. 1951 ), film and theater actor, People's Artist of the USSR (1949).
• 1899
  • Lev Kuleshov (d. 1970 ), actor, film director, screenwriter, film theorist, teacher, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
  • Vasily Korzh (d. 1967 ), commander of a partisan detachment, major general, Hero of the Soviet Union .

XX century

• 1904 - Nathan Milstein (d. 1992 ), American violinist of Russian origin.
• 1906 - Alexander Fainzimmer (d. 1982 ), Soviet film director.
• 1907 - Irina Wulf (d. 1972 ), Soviet actress, theater director.
• 1909 - Simon Virsaladze (d. 1989 ), theater artist, stage designer, painter, teacher, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1913 - Mark Lisyansky (d. 1993 ), Soviet songwriter.
• 1922 - Valery Frid (d. 1998 ), Soviet and Russian playwright and screenwriter.
• 1923 - Daniil Shafran (d. 1997 ), cellist, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1924
  • Paul Feyerabend (d. 1994 ), American philosopher and methodologist of science.
  • Roland Petit (d. 2011 ), French dancer and choreographer.
• 1927
  • Sydney Brenner , South African Biologist, Nobel Laureate (2002).
  • Guy Muminou , French painter and writer.
• 1931 - Arkady Weiner (d. 2005 ), Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter, playwright ( see the Weiner brothers ).
• 1936 - Vladimir Pisarevsky , Soviet and Russian sports commentator.
• 1937 - Ariadne Shengelaya , Soviet and Georgian film actress.
• 1949 - Rakesh Sharma , the first Indian cosmonaut.
• 1954 - Alexey Glyzin , Russian pop singer.
• 1958 - Sergey Gazarov , Soviet and Russian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.
• 1961 - Graham MacPherson (pseudonym Suggs ), English singer, actor, radio host, vocalist of the band " Madness ".
• 1966
  • Patrick Dempsey , American actor, director.
  • Irina Apeksimova , Russian theater and film actress.
• 1969
  • Stefania Belmondo , Italian skier, two-time Olympic champion.
  • Stephen Hendry , Scottish snooker player , 7-time world champion.
• 1972 - Vitaliy Scherbo , Soviet and Belarusian gymnast, 6-time Olympic champion.
• 1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin , Russian hockey player, goalkeeper.
• 1977 - Orlando Bloom , an English actor.
• 1982 - Ruth Wilson , English actress.
• 1990 - Liam Hemsworth , Australian actor.
• 1998 - Gabriel Daleman , Canadian figure skater: Olympic champion in the team (2018).

See also: Category: Dead on January 13

Until the 19th century

• 86 BC e. - Gaius Marius (b. 157 BC ), Roman commander and politician.
• 1599 - Edmund Spencer (born c. 1552 ), English poet.
• 1654 - Janusz Kishka (b. 1586 ), the great Lithuanian hetman .
• 1717 - Maria Sibylla Merian (b. 1647 ), German artist and engraver of the Baroque era, entomologist .

XIX century

• 1839 - Peter Kalaidovich (b. 1791 ), Russian teacher of literature, linguist, poet.
• 1864 - Stephen Foster (b. 1826 ), American composer, songwriter and singer.
• 1869 - Pavel Obukhov (b. 1820 ), Russian metallurgist, creator of the Obukhov plant .
• 1874 - Nikolai Solovyov (b. 1831 ), Russian doctor, popularizer of medicine and literary critic.
• 1882 - Wilhelm Mauser (b. 1834 ), German designer and manufacturer of small arms.
• 1894 - Nadezhda von Meck (b. 1831 ), Russian philanthropist, girlfriend and patron of P.I. Tchaikovsky .

XX century

• 1904 - Vasily Velichko (b. 1860 ), Russian writer, poet, publicist, editor.
• 1906 - Alexander Popov (b. 1859 ), Russian physicist and electrical engineer, inventor of radio .
• 1909 - Ivan Zabelin (b. 1820 ), Russian historian and archaeologist.
• 1910 - Andrew Jackson Davis (b. 1826 ), clairvoyant and occultist, founder of American spiritualism.
• 1916 - Sergey Utochkin (b. 1876 ), pioneer of aeronautics in Russia.
• 1923 - Theodul Ribot (b. 1839 ), French academician, psychologist and teacher.
• 1929 - Wyatt Earp (b. 1848 ), guardian of the law and a gambler from the time of the development of the American West, who became widely known thanks to books and movies in the Western genre.
• 1931 - Kalman Kando (b. 1869 ), Hungarian engineer, electrical scientist.
• 1941 - James Joyce (b. 1882 ), Irish writer.
• 1945
  • Ivan Efremov (b. 1866 ), Russian politician and statesman.
  • Sergey Bugoslavsky (b. 1888 ), musicologist, composer, historian of ancient Russian literature.
• 1963 - Nikolai Smirnov-Sokolsky (b. 1898 ), Soviet entertainer, bibliographer, book historian.
• 1966 - Mikhail Bagrinovsky (b. 1885 ), Russian and Soviet composer, conductor.
• 1968 - Kirill Orlovsky (b. 1895 ), an employee of the state security organs of the USSR and the NKVD , during the war years one of the leaders of the partisan movement, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1974 - Salvador Novo (b. 1904 ), Mexican poet, prose writer, translator, television presenter.
• 1978 - Maurice Karem (b. 1899 ), Belgian poet.
• 1982 - Marcel Camus (b. 1912 ), French director and screenwriter.
• 1987
  • Igor Ilyinsky (b. 1901 ), film and theater actor, director, People's Artist of the USSR.
  • Anatoly Efros (b. 1925 ), Soviet director of theater and cinema.
• 1988 - Jiang Jingguo (b. 1910 ), Taiwanese public figure.
• 1999 - Nikolai Leonov (b. 1933 ), Soviet and Russian writer, a popular master of the detective genre.

21st Century

• 2002 - Gregorio Fuentes (b. 1897 ), Cuban fisherman and sailor, prototype of Santiago from E. Hemingway ’s novel “The Old Man and the Sea ”.
• 2005 - Harutyun Hakobyan (b. 1918 ), pop artist, illusionist, actor, people's artist of the USSR.
• 2006 - Arnolds Burovs (b. 1915 ), Soviet and Latvian director, stage designer and animator.
• 2007 - Boris Bugaev (b. 1923 ), Soviet military and statesman, chief marshal of aviation.
• 2008 - Giedrius Matskevičius (b. 1945 ), theater director, Honored Artist of Russia.
• 2009 - Mikhail Donskoy (born 1948 ), Russian programmer, one of the authors of the Kaissa chess program.

Vasiliev evening . A generous evening . Fawn . Vasilievskaya carriage . Rich evening. Melanques. Generous.

• If a lot of stars can be seen on Vasiliev’s night in the sky , the yield of berries will be good.
• If this night the wind blows from the south - the year will be hot and prosperous, from the west - to an abundance of milk and fish , from the east - wait for the fruit harvest ^[6] .
• Soft snow falls - to harvest, and if it is warm, then the summer will be rainy.
• A lot of fluffy hoarfrost on trees - to a good grain harvest and honey collection ^[7] .