- 1957] Birth of the Frisbee: Wham-O begins producing "Pluto Platters". You might know them better as Frisbees...
- 1962] "Happy Trails": Brilliant TV comic Ernie Kovacs dies in a car crash at 43...1978] Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey dies from terminal cancer at 66...
- 1966] Stork sighting: Elizabeth Montgomery's character Samantha on "Bewitched" gives birth to Tabitha...
- 1979] Mysterious Death: Singer Donny Hathaway dies after either jumping or falling from the 15th floor of a Manhattan hotel. Hathaway was just 34...
- 1982] This is a joke?: An Air Florida 737 crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge in a blinding snowstorm. The plane goes down in the Potomac River killing 78. Howard Stern gets fired when asking, on the air, when the next flight was scheduled to arrive at the 14th Street Bridge...
- 1982] Going to Hall: Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson are elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Congratulations to Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice, elected yesterday...
- 1989] Guilty as charged: Subway vigilante Bernhard H. Goetz is sentenced to one year in prison for gun possession but is freed the following September...
- 1990] This I swear: L. Douglas Wilder takes office as the nation's first elected black governor (Virgina)...
- 2000] Musical Chairs: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes president Steve Ballmer to the position...
- 2003] Busted: Pete Townshend of The Who is arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children, which he denies. He will later be cleared of those charges...For more on January 13th: C L I C K:
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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