January 13

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1785	John Walter publishes the first issue of the Daily Universal Register (later renamed The Times).	Badly Drawn Boy	The Time of Times	Born in the U.K.
2	1830	The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.	The Essex Green	New Orleans	Fabulous Day
3	1832	President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina	Denali	Nullaby	Instinct
4	1842	Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.	The Rolling Stones	Soul Survivor	Exile on Main St.
5	1910	The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.	R.E.M.	Radio Song	Out of Time
6	1968	Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom Prison	Johnny Cash	Folsom Prison Blues	With His Hot and Blue Guitar

(Historical facts about January 13 are from Wikipedia.)