TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021.

Today’s highlight

On Jan. 13, 1982, an Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.‘s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River while trying to take off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people, including four motorists on the bridge; four passengers and a flight attendant survived.

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 2001, an earthquake estimated by the U.S. Geological Survey at magnitude 7.7 struck El Salvador; more than 840 people were killed.

Today’s birthdays

Actor Richard Moll is 78. Actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus is 60. Singer Trace Adkins is 59. Actor Penelope Ann Miller is

57. Actor Patrick Dempsey is

55. Actor Traci Bingham is 53. Actor Michael Pena is 45. Actor Orlando Bloom is 44.