In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary. – Shalane Flanagan

LODD’s:

Jan 13, 2003

Career fire fighter/emergency medical technician dies from injuries sustained in fall from apparatus – California.

Jan 13, 2001

Fire fighter suffers a heart attack and dies after performing “ventilation-entry-search” activities in a five-story apartment building fire – New York.

History by Historyplace.com:

January 13, 1893 – The British Independent Labor Party was founded with James Keir Hardie as its leader.

January 13, 1898 – French author Emile Zola published J’Accuse, a letter accusing the French government of a cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus case. Dreyfus had been convicted of treason for selling military secrets to the Germans and had been sent to Devil’s Island. As a result of Zola’s letter and subsequent trail, Dreyfus was completely vindicated.

January 13, 1935 – The population of the Saar region bordering France and Germany voted for incorporation into Hitler’s Reich. The 737 square-mile area with its valuable coal deposits had been under French control following Germany’s defeat in World War I.

January 13, 1990 – Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the first African American governor in the U.S. as he took the oath of office in Richmond.

January 13, 2021 – President Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives on a charge of “Incitement of Insurrection” following a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters seven days earlier. The charge alleged Trump encouraged the January 6th insurrection to interfere with Congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election, after losing to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump was acquitted on February 13, 2021 when the U.S. Senate failed to reach the two-thirds majority needed for conviction.