The Oneida Daily Dispatch (Oneida, NY)
TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
Jan. 13, 1982
An Air Florida 737crashed 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 78people; four passengers and a flight attendant survived.
ALSO ON THIS DATE
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.
1915
A magnitude-7earthquake centered in Avezzano, Italy, claimed some 30,000 lives.
1941
A new law went into effect granting Puerto Ricans U.S. birthright citizenship. Novelist and poet James Joyce died in Zurich, Switzerland, less than a month before his 59th birthday.