January 13th
Today in America's Present Past
1802 | Founding: George Hopkins published a second edition of the Federalist Papers, revealing the anonymous authors as Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.
1808 | SCOTUS: Supreme Court Justice Salmon P. Chase was born.
1810 | Activist Ernestine Rose was born.
1815 | War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter, St. Mary’s, Georgia.
1832 | Author Horatio Alger, Jr. was born.
1840 | Steamship Lexington burns as it sinks, claiming the lives of 139 people off the coast of Long Island, New York.
1847 | Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Cahuenga ended the conflict in the California Territory.
1864 | Musical Stephen Foster died.
1874 | “Tomkins Square Riot” in New York City.
1885 | Journalist and Vice-President of the United States Schuyler Colfax died.
1886 | Entertainer Sophie Tucker was born.
1888 | The National Geographic Society is founded.
1893 | Artist Clark Ashton Smith was born.
1900 | Mathematician Gertrude Mary Cox was born.
1901 | Author A. B. Guthrie, Jr. was born.
1908 | The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, kills 171 people.
1919 | Actor Robert Stack was born.
1928 | Serial killer Earle Nelson died.
1929 | Lawman Wyatt Earp died.
1931 | Actor Rip Taylor was born.
1940 | Author Edmund White was born.
1942 | Entrepreneur Henry Ford patients a “soybean” car.
1961 | Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus was born.
1966 | Civil Rights: Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints the first African American Cabinet Secretary, Robert C. Weaver, as head of the Housing and Urban Development.
1966 | Actor Patrick Dempsey was born.
1968 | Entertainer Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison.
1975 | Entrepreneur Andrew Yang was born.
1977 | Actor Orlando Bloom was born.
1978 | Journalist Nate Silver was born.
1990 | Civil Rights: Virginia Democrat Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor.
2021 | Republican President Donald Trump is impeached for the second time.