Week 3, January 13-19, 2013
(ANNIVERSARY) DD MM YYYY:Event

(0)  13  01  2012: The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia with 4252 people on board, partially sank when it ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, with the loss of 32 lives
(91)  13  01  1921: Brothers Fred and William Folberth invented the automatic windshield wiper in Ohio, U.S.
(74)  13  01  1938: Walt DisneyÕs first full length animated feature ÒSnow White and the Seven DwarfsÓ went on general release
(17)  13  01  1995: President Clinton authorised loan guarantees of U.S.$40 billion to stabilise the Mexican peso
(13)  13  01  1999: The Brazilian government devalued the real, triggering stock market falls around the world

(58)  14  01  1954: Baseball star Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn Monroe. Although divorced after nine months, they remained friends and it was DiMaggio who arranged her funeral 
(219)  14  01  1794: Elizabeth Hog Bennett became the first woman in the U.S. to successfully give birth to a child by a Caesarean section. The operation was performed by her husband without anaesthetic
(59)  14  01  1953: Marshal Josip Broz Tito was elected first president of the Republic of Yugoslavia
(22)  14  01  1990: Cartoon favourites The Simpsons debuted on America's Fox TV network
(5)  14  01  2007: The Red Crystal was recognized as an official symbol of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

(69)  15  01  1943: Work on the new Pentagon building, headquarters of the U.S. Defence Department, was completed, making it the largest office building in the world 
(142)  15  01  1870: The U.S. Democratic Party was first represented as a donkey in a cartoon in HarperÕs Weekly
(50)  15  01  1962: French fashion designer Yves St Laurent opened his own couture house in Paris
(41)  15  01  1971: The Aswan High Dam was opened by Presidents Sadat of Egypt and Podgorny of the Soviet Union
(39)  15  01  1973: Richard Nixon announced an end to all bombing in North Vietnam after progress in the Paris peace talks

(140)  16  01  1872: The Orient Express, synonymous with intrigue and luxury, steamed into Istanbul becoming the first train to connect Turkey with Europe
(103)  16  01  1909: The British Antarctic expedition led by Ernest Shackleton reached the magnetic South Pole
(55)  16  01  1957: LiverpoolÕs Cavern Club, where The Beatles achieved fame, opened its doors for the first time
(19)  16  01  1993: EuropeÕs biggest wind-powered energy generator opened at Cape Tarifa in southern Spain
(9)  16  01  2003: The founder of America Online (AOL), Steve Case, resigned in the wake of heavy losses

(12)  17  01  2000: British pharmaceutical giants Glaxo Wellcome Plc and SmithKline Beecham merged to become  Glaxo SmithKline, one of the worldÕs largest drug companies
(450)  17  01  1562: The Edict of Saint Germain, by which the French Huguenots were tolerated, was opposed by Catholics 
(239)  17  01  1773: The Resolution withCaptain James Cook, became the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle
(16)  17  01  1996: In Norway, four men were jailed for stealing Edvard MunchÕs famous painting, The Scream, in 1994 
(1)  17  01  2011: In the wake of Tunisian protests, a man set himself on fire outside parliament in Cairo, Egypt

(7)  18  01  2005: The first production model of the ÒsuperjumboÓ Airbus A380, a double-decker capable of carrying as many as 850 passengers, was unveiled in France
(234)  18  01  1778: British explorer Captain Cook discovered the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii
(224)  18  01  1788: The first fleet carrying convicts to Australia dropped anchor in Botany Bay
(10)  18  01  2002: Molten rock poured through the eastern Congolese town of Goma
(0)  18  01  2012: Wikipedia shut down its website for 24 hours in protest against two anti-web piracy measures going through U.S. Congress

(199)  19  01  1813: Sir Henry Bessemer was born. A prodigious inventor, he is remembered for his process to remove impurities and created steel inexpensively
(159)  19  01  1853: The first performance of Giuseppe VerdiÕs opera Il Trovatore took place in Rome
(98)  19  01  1915: A U.S. patent was issued to George Claude of Paris for luminescent tubes which led to the neon sign
(9)  19  01  2003: ChinaÕs Yuzhengong Palace, exemplifying 1,000 years of artistic and architectural achievements of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, was destroyed by fire
(3)  19  01  2009: Russia devalued the rouble for the sixth time in 2009 to reflect the sharp decrease in the price of oil