It’s Sunday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2013. There are 352 days left in the year.

History

Highlight: In 2012, the Italian luxury liner Costa Concordia ran aground off the Tuscan island of Giglio and flipped on its side; 32 people were killed. A2

In 1733, James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, S.C., while en route to settle in present-day Georgia.

In 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.)

In 1864, composer Stephen Foster died in a New York hospital at age 37. (In his pocket: a note which read, “Dear friends and gentle hearts.”)

In 1945, during World War II, Soviet forces began a huge, successful offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe.

In 1962, comedian Ernie Kovacs died in a car crash in L.A. 10 days before his 43rd birthday.

In 1966, Robert Weaver was named Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson; Weaver became the first black Cabinet member.

In 1978, former Vice President Hubert Humphrey died in Waverly, Minn., at 66.

In 1982, an Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River after taking off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people; four passengers and a flight attendant survived.

In 1987, West German police arrested Mohammed Ali Hamadi, a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner. (Although convicted and sentenced to life, Hamadi was paroled by Germany in 2005; he is on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list.)

In 1990, L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation’s first elected black governor as he took the oath of office.

In 1992, Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for its soldiers during World War II, citing newly uncovered documents that showed the Japanese army had had a role in abducting the so-called “comfort women.”

Ten years ago: Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman jumped into the 2004 race for president.

Five years ago: President George W. Bush, visiting the United Arab Emirates, gently urged authoritarian Arab allies to satisfy frustrated desires for democracy in the Mideast.

One year ago: A Peruvian court sentenced Joran van der Sloot to 28 years in prison for murdering Stephany Flores, a young woman he’d met at a Lima casino.

Happenings

NFL playoffs — The Atlanta Falcons host the Seattle Seahawks.

Golden Globes — Tina Fey and Amy Poehler host the pre-Oscars Hollywood awards show.

France — Paris mobilizes for a massive demonstration against gay marriage, expected to be the biggest street protest in a decade, two days before the government introduces a law to legalize such unions.

Birthdays

Actress Frances Sternhagen is 83. TV personality Nick Clooney is 79. Comedian Rip Taylor is 79. Actor Billy Gray is 75. Rock musician Trevor Rabin is 59. Rhythm-and-blues musician Fred White is 58. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus is 52. Country singer Trace Adkins is 51. Actress Penelope Ann Miller is 49. Actor Patrick Dempsey is 47. Actress Traci Bingham is 45. Actor Keith Coogan is 43. Actress Nicole Eggert is 41. Actor Orlando Bloom is 36. Actor Julian Morris is 30.

— From wire reports