Also on this Day, January 13 AMERICAN REVOLUTION British raid Prudence Island in Narragansett Bay, 1776 AUTOMOTIVE Comedian killed in Corvair crash, 1962 CIVIL WAR Union General Napoleon Bonaparte Buford is born, 1807 COLD WAR Soviets boycott United Nations Security Council, 1950 CRIME Doc Barker is killed by prison guards as he attempts to escape, 1939 The Manuel Massacres, 1958 DISASTER Plane crashes into Potomac, 1982 GENERAL INTEREST Sole British soldier escapes Kabul, 1842 Stephen Foster dies, 1864 James Joyce dies, 1941 HOLLYWOOD Golden Globes curtailed due to writers’ strike, 2008 LITERARY Zolas Jaccuse letter is printed, 1898 MUSIC Georgia Governor Zell Miller proposes writing The Mozart effect into law, 1998 OLD WEST Wyatt Earp dies in Los Angeles, 1929 PRESIDENTIAL Johnson appoints first African-American cabinet member, 1966 SPORTS Michael Jordan retires for a second time, 1999 VIETNAM WAR First Operation Farm Gate missions flown, 1962 Nixon announces additional troop withdrawals, 1972 WORLD WAR I Battle of Wadi, 1916 WORLD WAR II Allies promise prosecution of war criminals, 1942
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