On this day …
January 13, 2015
- In 1840, the steamship Lexington burned and sank four miles off the coast of Long Island, N.Y., killing 139.
- In 1910, the first public radio broadcast took place; it was a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
- In 1915, an earthquake in Avezzano, Italy killed nearly 30,000.
- In 1964, Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland.
- In 1966, Robert C. Weaver became the first African American member of the Cabinet when he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
- In 1990, Douglas Wilder became the first elected African American governor when he took office in Richmond, Va.
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