What happened on 13 January?

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

1. 532 Nika riots Chariot-faction riots erupt into a near-revolution in Constantinople; Justinian crushes them with thousands dead in the Hippodrome.
2. 1898 Émile Zola's J'Accuse...! Zola's open letter accusing the French army of antisemitism, the turning point of the Dreyfus Affair.
3. 2021 Trump impeachment 2 (Capitol) Second Trump impeachment after Capitol attack.
4. 1990 U Can't Touch This (MC Hammer) Hammer's 'Super Freak'-sampling dance smash; rap's first true pop superstar moment.
5. 1948 Gandhi begins his last fast In a Delhi of refugee camps and reprisal killings, Gandhi fasts for communal peace (13–18 January 1948); during the fast India agrees to release Pakistan's withheld share of the tr
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 attempt to hold the empire by
7. 1782 Schiller's The Robbers Schiller's first play, about a nobleman turned outlaw, causes near-riots of enthusiasm at its Mannheim premiere and becomes the manifesto of the Sturm und Drang.
8. 1953 Doctors' plot Pravda announces that Kremlin doctors, most of them Jews, have plotted to murder Soviet leaders; arrests and an antisemitic campaign follow until Stalin's death weeks later.