^B{^#!16!13 January^N! Feast day of St Hilary of Poitiers, St Agrecius, and St Berno.
^B{1893^B} The British Independent Labour Party was formed by Keir Hardie. ^B{1898^B} French novelist Emile Zola published ^I{J'accuse/I Accuse^I}, a pamphlet indicting the persecutors of Dreyfus. ^B{1910^B} Opera was broadcast on the radio for the first time - Enrico Caruso singing from the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera House. ^B{1964^B} Capitol records released the Beatles' first single in the US; 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' sold one million copies in the first three weeks. ^B{1978^B} NASA selected its first women astronauts, 15 years after the USSR had a female astronaut orbit the Earth. ^B{1991^B} Soviet troops killed 15 protesters in Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, in a crackdown on pro-independence forces. ^B{1993^B} Former East German leader Erich Honecker, who had been awaiting trial on charges of manslaughter, was released from a Berlin prison because of ill health.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Sophie Tucker, US singer and vaudeville star, ^B{1884^B}; Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, Australian politician, ^B{1911^B}; Ted Willis, English dramatist, ^B{1918^B}; Robert Stack, US film actor, ^B{1919^B}; Michael Bond, English creator of the Paddington Bear stories for children, ^B{1926^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Edmund Spenser, English poet, ^B{1599^B}; George Fox, English founder of the Society of Friends, ^B{1691^B}; Stephen Foster, US songwriter, ^B{1864^B}; James Joyce, Irish novelist, ^B{1941^B}; Hubert Humphrey, US politician, ^B{1978^B}.
