January 13 in history: • 1815 – British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, in the only battle of the War of 1812 to take place in the state of Georgia. → go there • 1916 – The first Feminist Congress of Yucatán (delegates pictured) began in Mérida, Mexico, to propose reforms for women's social, educational, and legal rights. → go there • 1949 – In the first recorded instance of strike action by Catholic laity against the clergy, gravediggers at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York City, went on strike. → go there • 2001 – The first of two large earthquakes in the span of a month struck El Salvador, killing at least 944 people and destroying over 100,000 homes. → go there • 2003 – The trans-Neptunian object 208996 Achlys was discovered by Chad Trujillo and Michael E. Brown at Palomar Observatory, California. → go there Died 858: Æthelwulf, King of Wessex Wiki link Died 1935: Brynhild Olivier Wiki link Born 1988: Maon Kurosaki Wiki link Died 2012: Guido Dessauer Wiki link Pictured: Delegates at the first Feminist Congress of Yucatán.