The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 sq mi) of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people. Date: January 13, 1939 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 13 📅 Events on this day in 1939 📅 On This Day (Today)

World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter. Date: January 13, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 13 📅 Events on this day in 1942 📅 On This Day (Today)

Henry Ford patents a soybean car, which is 30% lighter than a regular car. Date: January 13, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 13 📅 Events on this day in 1942 📅 On This Day (Today)

Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. Date: January 13, 1950 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 13 📅 Events on this day in 1950 📅 On This Day (Today)

British submarine HMS Truculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men. Date: January 13, 1950 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 13 📅 Events on this day in 1950 📅 On This Day (Today)

First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins. Date: January 13, 1951 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 13 📅 Events on this day in 1951 📅 On This Day (Today)

An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership. Date: January 13, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 13 📅 Events…

The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera. Date: January 13, 1958 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 13 📅 Events on this day in 1958 📅 On This Day (Today)

Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio. Date: January 13, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 13 📅 Events on this day in 1963 📅 On This Day (Today)

In Manchester, New Hampshire, fourteen-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside by the landmark Fourth Amendment case Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971). Date: January 13, 1964 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 13 📅 Events on this day…