📜 This Day in History

January 13

• 1435Pope Eugene IV promulgated the papal bull Sicut dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the native Guanche of the Canary Islands by the Spanish.
• 1847The Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, informally ending the fighting of the Mexican–American War in California.
• 1916The first Feminist Congress of Yucatán began in Mérida, Mexico, to propose reforms for women's social, educational, and legal rights.
• 1968American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison in California.
• 1972Bernice Gera won a sex-discrimination lawsuit against the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, allowing her to become the first female professional baseball umpire.
• 2012The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef and capsized off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany.

Born on this day

• 101Lucius Aelius, Roman adopted son of Hadrian (died 138)
• 1864Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)
• 1927Sydney Brenner, South African biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
• 1977Orlando Bloom, English actor