On this day: Beatles release record in the US Events, birthdays and anniversaries for 13 January 1419: English force captured French city of Rouen. 1559: Coronation of Elizabeth I of England. 1813: British fleet blockaded Chesapeake and Delaware Bays in United States during War of 1812. 1848: The Hudson's Bay Company acquired Vancouver Island, British Columbia. 1849: Sikhs were defeated at Chilianwala in India, but British suffered heavy casualties. 1886: Lagos became separate British colony from Nigeria. 1893: The Independent British Labour Party was formed by Keir Hardie. 1915: Earthquake in central Italy killed 30,000 people. 1921: The first windscreen wipers were introduced by Mills Munitions in Birmingham. 1942: The pilot of an experimental jet fighter was the first man to use an emergency ejector seat button, landing safely from 7,875ft in Germany. 1943: A government directive on wartime school uniforms decreed that all schoolwear must be either navy or grey, to avoid wastage of materials and dyes. 1962: An outbreak of smallpox spread throughout Britain. 1964: A reluctant Capitol Records released the first Beatles record in the United States "to see how it goes." I Wanna Hold Your Hand became its fastest selling single: one million copies were sold in the first three weeks. 1967: Military officers in Togo seized power in bloodless coup. 1972: Group of junior officers overthrew civilian government of Ghana. 1972: UK appointed its first ambassador to communist China. 1982: A Boeing 737 hit a bridge full of commuter traffic and landed in the Potomac river, Washington, hitting five ships, during a blizzard. Seventy-eight people died. 1989: A 600lb Second World War bomb found in a quarry at Brixton, Devon, was defused. 1990: Some 30,000 people showed the strength of public support for ambulance workers at a London rally. 1992: Ford workers at the Dagenham plant in east Londonon were told to speed up or risk losing their jobs, as the company aimed to match output at German plants. 1993: The space shuttle Endeavour headed for space for the third time as STS-54 launched from the Kennedy Space Centre. Stephen Hendry MBE, seven times world snooker champion, 45; Kevin Anderson, actor, 54; Traci Bingham, actress, 46; Richard Blackford, composer, 60; Orlando Bloom, actor, 37; Michael Bond OBE, author, creator of Paddington Bear, 88; Matthew Bourne OBE, artistic director and choreographer, 54; Nicole Eggert, actress, 42; Stephen Glover, journalist, 62; Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress, 53; Suggs McPherson, singer (Madness), 53; Professor Gordon McVie, director, Cancer Intelligence, 69; Penelope Ann Miller, actress, 50; Mark O'Meara, golfer, 57; Ronan Rafferty, golfer, 50; Bernard Shrimsley, journalist, 83. Births: 1596 Jan Van Goyen, artist; 1884 Sophie Tucker, American showgirl known as "The Last Of the Red Hot Mommas"1926 Craigie Aitchison CBE, Edinburgh-born artist. Deaths: AD603 St Kentigern (or St Mungo), patron saint of Glasgow; 1599 Edmund Spenser, poet; 1691 George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends; 1800 James MacKnight, Biblical critic; 1864 Stephen Foster, American composer.