January 13 1898 French writer Emile Zola published his JAccuse letter, accusing the French of a cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus treason case. 1941 Novelist James Joyce died in Zurich. 1990 Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the first elected African-American governor in the United States. 1999 Michael Jordan announced his second retirement from the NBA. He would unretire again in 2001. 2002 After 17,162 performances, The Fantasticks ended its almost 42-year off-Broadway run. 2004 Joseph Darby, a U.S. soldier at Iraqs Abu Ghraib prison, reported U.S. abuses of Iraqi prisoners to the Armys Criminal Investigations Division..
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