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	Thursday, January 13th The 013th day of 2011. There are 352 days left in the year. Go to a previous date.

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Today's Highlights in History
See a larger version of this front page.		On Jan. 13, 1990, Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation's first elected black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond. (Go to article.)On Jan. 13 , 1870, Ross GranvilleHarrison , the American zoologist and pioneer in embryonic transplantation , was born. Following his death onSept. 30 , 1959, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. |Other Birthdays)
		On January 13, 1877, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Electoral College controversy. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

On this date in:
1794	President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union.
1808	Salmon P. Chase, U.S. senator, secretary of the treasury and chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Cornish, N.H.
1893	Britain's Independent Labor Party, a precursor to the Labor Party, first met.
1898	Novelist Emile Zola's "J'accuse" - a defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew falsely convicted of treason - was published in a Paris newspaper.
1964	Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland, by Pope Paul VI.
1966	Robert C. Weaver became the first black Cabinet member as he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1968	Country musician Johnny Cash recorded a live concert at Folsom Prison in California.
1978	Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey died in Waverly, Minn., at age 66.
1982	An Air Florida 737 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., after takeoff and fell into the Potomac River, killing 78 people.
1989	New York City subway gunman Bernhard H. Goetz was sentenced to one year in prison for possessing an unlicensed gun that he used to shoot four youths he said were about to rob him.
2000	Microsoft chairman Bill Gates stepped aside as chief executive.
2002	The off-Broadway musical "The Fantasticks" ended a run of nearly 42 years and 17,162 shows.

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Current Birthdays

Patrick Dempsey turns 45years old today.

AP Photo/Peter Kramer Actor Patrick Dempsey ("Grey's Anatomy") turns 45 years old today.

81 Frances Sternhagen Actress 77 Rip Taylor Comedian 73 Billy Gray Actor ("Father Knows Best") 68 Richard Moll Actor ("Night Court") 57 Trevor Rabin Rock musician (Yes) 50 Julia Louis-Dreyfus Actress ("Seinfeld," "The New Adventures of Old Christine") 49 Trace Adkins Country singer 47 Penelope Ann Miller Actress 39 Nicole Eggert Actress 34 Orlando Bloom Actor ("Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The Lord of the Rings" movies)

Historic Birthdays
Ross Granville Harrison
1/13/1870 - 9/30/1959 American zoologist  (Go to obit.)
60	Jan van Goyen 1/13/1596 - 4/27/1656 Dutch artist
77	Christoph Graupner 1/13/1683 - 5/10/1760 German composer
81	Sir Isaac Goldsmid 1/13/1778 - 4/27/1859 English financier
65	Salmon Chase 1/13/1808 - 5/7/1873 American politician/lawyer
67	Horatio Alger 1/13/1832 - 7/18/1899 American author
51	Felix Tisserand 1/13/1845 - 10/20/1896 French astronomer
82	Sophie Tucker 1/13/1884 - 2/9/1966 American entertainer
68	Elmer Davis 1/13/1890 - 5/18/1958 American broadcaster/writer
90	A.B. Jr. Guthrie 1/13/1901 - 4/26/1991 American novelist

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