13 January: Fifteen Stripes; "J'accuse" Published; First Opera Broadcast; Johnny Cash Cuts At Folsom; Stephen Foster, James Joyce, Ernie Kovacs, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Donny Hathaway, Many Others Die

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2010. There are 352 days left in the year. The UPI Almanac.Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 13, 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. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.)
On this date:
In 1733, James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, S.C., while en route to settle in present-day Georgia.
In 1808, Salmon P. Chase, U.S. senator, secretary of the treasury and chief justice of the Supreme Court, whose image was on the U.S. $10,000 bill, was born in Cornish, N.H.
In 1864, composer Stephen Foster ("My Old Kentucky Home") died in a New York hospital at age 37, three days after he was found sick and almost penniless in a hotel room.
In 1893, Britain's Independent Labor Party, a precursor to the Labor Party, first met.
In 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.
In 1941, Irish novelist James Joyce died in Zurich, Switzerland, less than a month before his 59th birthday.
In 1945, Soviet forces began a huge, successful offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe.
In 1953, Josip Broz Tito was chosen president of Yugoslavia. He served until May 1980.
In 1964, Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland, by Pope Paul VI.
In 1966, Robert C. Weaver was named Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson; Weaver became the first black Cabinet member.
In 1978, former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey died in Waverly, Minn., at age 66.

In 1982, an Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge after takeoff during a snowstorm and fell into the Potomac River, killing 78 people.
In 1987, seven top New York Mafia bosses were sentenced to 100 years in prison each, including the heads of the Genovese, Colombo and Lucchese crime families.
In 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.
In 1990, L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation's first elected black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond.
In 1991, a Soviet crackdown in the Baltics killed 15 and injured 140. Also in 1991, at least 40 South Africans were killed and 50 injured when fighting erupted during a soccer game in Orkney.
In 1996, U.S. Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine, announced his retirement, a record 13th senator choosing not to seek new terms. By year's end, Cohen would join the Clinton Cabinet as secretary of defense.
In 1997, U.S. President Bill Clinton awarded the Medal of Honor to seven black soldiers for their courage in action in Italy during World War II. It was the first time the medal was given to black WWII servicemen.
In 1999, Michael Jordan announced his second retirement from the Chicago Bulls. (He returned to the NBA in 2001.) President Bill Clinton's legal team dispatched a formal trial brief to the Senate, arguing that neither "fact or law" warranted his removal from office; House officials sent the Senate all public evidence in the case.
In 2000, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates stepped aside as chief executive and promoted company president Steve Ballmer to the position.
In 2003, Pope John Paul II argued forcibly against war in Iraq except as "the very last option" and said such a conflict would be "a defeat for humanity."
In 2004, hostile fire brought down a U.S. Army Apache attack helicopter in Iraq, but the two crew members escaped injury. A domestic airliner crashed in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, killing all 37 people aboard. Harold Shipman, the British doctor blamed for killing more than 200 mostly elderly patients, was found hanged in his prison cell, an apparent suicide.
In 2005, Major League Baseball adopted a tougher steroid-testing program that suspended first-time offenders for 10 days and randomly tested players year-round. The 15-year-old boy accusing Michael Jackson of child molestation vividly described sexual encounters in testimony before a grand jury. Also in 2005, the CIA said Iraq replaced Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of terrorists.
In 2006, the U.S. military launched a missile attack in Pakistan in an unsuccessful effort to kill al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Pakistan lodged a complaint against the U.S. attack in which a reported 17 died.
In 2008, President George W. Bush, visiting the United Arab Emirates, gently urged authoritarian Arab allies to satisfy frustrated desires for democracy in the Mideast and saved his harshest criticism for Iran, branding it "the world's leading state-sponsor of terror." A University of Minnesota research team announced it had created a beating heart from animal tissues and cells, officials said.
In 2009, President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, vowed during her Senate confirmation hearing to revitalize the mission of diplomacy in U.S. foreign policy. Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department, Timothy Geithner, disclosed that he had failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004. U.S. Marshals apprehended Marcus Schrenker, 38, in North Florida days after the businessman and amateur daredevil pilot apparently tried to fake his own death in a plane crash. (Schrenker faces a March trial on charges of bilking investors of more than $1 million.) Author Hortense Calisher died in New York at 97.
Today's Birthdays: Country singer Liz Anderson is 80. Actress Frances Sternhagen is 80. TV personality Nick Clooney is 76. Comedian Rip Taylor is 76. Actor Billy Gray is 72. Actor Richard Moll is 67. Rock musician Trevor Rabin is 56. R&B musician Fred White is 55. Rock musician James Lomenzo (Megadeth) is 51. Actor Kevin Anderson is 50. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus is 49. Rock singer Graham "Suggs" McPherson (Madness) is 49. Country singer Trace Adkins is 48. Actress Penelope Ann Miller is 46. Actor Patrick Dempsey is 44. Actress Traci Bingham is 42. Actor Keith Coogan is 40. Actress Nicole Eggert is 38. Actor Orlando Bloom is 33.
Born On This Date, Yet Not Celebrating: Horatio Alger, author of rags-to-riches stories (1832); Alfred Fuller, the original Fuller Brush Man (1885); singer Sophie Tucker (1884); Hollywood columnist Army Archerd (1922); television executive Brandon Tartikoff (1949); actors Robert Stack (1919); Gwen Verdon (1925); & Charles Nelson Reilly (1931).
Today In Entertainment History January 13
In 1910, opera was experimentally broadcast on radio for the first time as Lee De Forest transmitted a performance of "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci" from the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera.
In 1962, comedian Ernie Kovacs died in a car crash in west Los Angeles, 10 days before his 43rd birthday.
In 1968, country musician Johnny Cash recorded a live concert at Folsom Prison in California.
In 1973, Eric Clapton made a comeback from drug addiction when he performed at the Rainbow Theatre in London. His backing band included Pete Townshend, Ron Wood and Steve Winwood.
In 1979, singer Donny Hathaway died in a fall from a hotel window in New York. He was 34. Hathaway was known for his duets with Roberta Flack.
In 1986, former members of the Sex Pistols sued former manager Malcolm McLaren. The suit was settled out of court.
In 2002, "The Fantasticks" closed in New York's Greenwich Village. It was the longest-running musical in the world. It had begun production in 1960 and had been performed 17,162 times.
In 2003, musician Pete Townshend was arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography in London. Townshend was later cleared of the charges.
In 2008, the Golden Globes were announced in a dry, news conference-style ceremony, devoid of stars because of the Hollywood writers' strike; "Atonement" won best motion picture drama, while "Mad Men" was named best dramatic TV series.
In 2009, Kara DioGuardi made her debut as the fourth judge on "American Idol." Actor-director Patrick McGoohan died in Los Angeles at 80.
Thought for Today: "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." — Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, English author (1717-1797).