TODAY is Saturday, January 13, the 13th day of 2018. There are 352 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1951 – First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yên begins, which will end in a major victory for France. 1960 – The Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union is officially abolished. 1963 – Coup d’état in Togo results in assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio 1964 – Anti-Muslim riots break out in

Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths. 1964 – Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Kraków, Poland. 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom

State Prison 1972 – Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong. 1982 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. 1985 – A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa. 1986 – A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties. 1988 – Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China. 1991 – Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding 1000. 1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center. 2000 – Bill Gates resigns as CEO of

Microsoft. 2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing

more than 800. 2012 – The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy. There are 32 confirmed deaths amongst the 4232 passengers and crew.