TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Monday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2020. There are 353 days left in the year.

ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY

On Jan. 13, 2012, the Italian luxury liner Costa Concordia ran aground off the Tuscan island of Giglio and flipped onto its side; 32 people were killed.

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.)

1962 — Comedian Ernie Kovacs died in a car crash in west Los Angeles 10 days before his 43rd birthday.

1982 — An Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington’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.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Actress Frances Sternhagen is 90. TV personality Nick Clooney is 86. Comedian Charlie Brill is 82. Actor Billy Gray is 82. Actor Richard Moll is 77. Rock musician Trevor Rabin is 66. Rhythmand-blues musician Fred White is 65. Rock musician James Lomenzo (Megadeth) is 61. Actor Kevin Anderson is 60. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus is 59. Rock singer Graham “Suggs” McPherson (Madness) is 59. Country singer Trace Adkins is 58. Actress Penelope Ann Miller is 56. Actor Patrick Dempsey is 54. Actress Suzanne Cryer is 53. Actress Traci Bingham is 52. Actor Keith Coogan is 50. TV producer-writer Shonda Rhimes is 50. Actress Nicole Eggert is 48. Actor Ross McCall is 44. Actor Michael Pena is 44. Actor Orlando Bloom is 43. Meteorologist Ginger Zee (TV: “Good Morning America”) is 39. Actress Ruth Wilson is 38. Actor Julian Morris is

37. Actor Beau Mirchoff is 31. Actor Liam Hemsworth is

30. NHL center Connor McDavid is 23.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr., American writer.