What happened on 13 January?

6 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1898 Émile Zola's J'Accuse...! Zola's open letter accusing the French army of antisemitism, the turning point of the Dreyfus Affair.
2. 532 Nika riots Chariot-faction riots erupt into a near-revolution in Constantinople; Justinian crushes them with thousands dead in the Hippodrome.
3. 532 Theodora stiffens Justinian in the Nika riots With the mob burning Constantinople and Justinian's ships loaded to flee, the empress tells him the purple makes a fine shroud. He stays; 30,000 die.
4. 2021 Trump impeachment 2 (Capitol) Second Trump impeachment after Capitol attack.
5. 1948 Gandhi's last fast In a Delhi of refugee camps and reprisal killings, Gandhi fasts unto death for peace between the communities — and for India to pay Pakistan its withheld share of the treasury. Fiv
6. 1991 Soviet troops storm the Vilnius TV tower Ten months after Lithuania declared independence, Soviet paratroopers and tanks seize Vilnius's TV tower from an unarmed crowd, killing fourteen. The last attempt to hold the empir