Today is Wednesday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2016. There are 353 days left in the year.

January 13, 2016 at 12:00a.m.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1733: James Oglethorpe and 120 English colonists arrive at Charleston, S.C., while en route to settle in present-day Georgia.

1794: President George Washington approves a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.)

1915: A magnitude-7 earthquake centered in Avezzano, Italy, claims some 30,000 lives.

1941: A new law goes into effect granting Puerto Ricans U.S. birthright citizenship.

1966: Robert C. Weaver is nominated to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson; Weaver becomes the first black Cabinet member.

1982: An Air Florida 737 crashes into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River while trying to take off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people; four passengers and a flight attendant survive.

1990: L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia becomes the nation’s first elected black governor as he takes the oath of office in Richmond.

2006: President George W. Bush meets with Germany’s new chancellor, Angela Merkel, at the White House.

2014: A shooting at a Wesley Chapel, Fla., movie theater leaves Chad Oulson, 43, dead; retired Tampa police captain Curtis Reeves, 71, is accused of killing Oulson during what authorities say was an argument over Oulson’s texting.

2015: Pope Francis calls for reconciliation as well as justice as he arrives in Sri Lanka at the start of a weeklong Asian tour.

In an emotional act of defiance, Charlie Hebdo resurrects its irreverent and often provocative newspaper, featuring on the cover a caricature of a weeping Prophet Muhammad holding a sign reading “I am Charlie” with the words “All is forgiven” above him.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: The YWCA’s Battered Persons Crisis Center in Youngstown is facing a loss of funding from the Mahoning County commissioners and the United Way because a one-year study alleges mismanagement within the program.

Hubbard Police Chief Raymond Moffitt says the department has traded in more than 60 confiscated and outdated weapons to buy 12 new .45-caliber semiautomatic pistols to replace the .357 Magnums officers had been using.

Bill Belichick, a 38-year-old defensive coordinator for the New York Giants who has family in Struthers and Poland, is a candidate for head coach of the Cleveland Browns.

1976: An arson at the Book Mart at 17 N. Chestnut St. in downtown Youngstown forces the operator of the store, Michael DeMaria, and a companion to flee from an apartment above the store. Damage is estimated at $7,000.

Two bandits force four employees of the Wendy’s restaurant at 4101 Market St. into a cooler while the manager, Andrew Petiya, is forced at gunpoint to open the safe.

Ron Yozwiak and Jim Pelusi, who were top-notch performers at Chaney High School, complete their freshman season at Columbia University in New York. Yozwiak was honorary freshman co-captain and Pelusi was the top freshman runner with 281 yards gained on 61 carries.

1966: Two supervisory appointments at Republic Rubber Division, Aeroquip Corp., are announced by E.R. Zacharias, general manager. They are Henry Lunder, customer-service supervisor, and Bernard C. Reinmann, production planning supervisor.

Mill Creek Kiwanis Club has its President’s Ball honoring outgoing president George Williams and welcoming the new president, Robert E. Murdock, at the Holiday Inn on Route 18.

Arthur Huff, 22, of Wirt Street is shot and killed in a scuffle with police who responded to a call of domestic abuse at Huff’s home.

1941: A new campaign for construction of a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal on national defense grounds, perhaps with the tacit sanction of President Roosevelt, is underway in Congress.

Colds, influenza and several hundred cases of measles keep nearly 4,000 Mahoning County grade- and high-school students out of school. Trumbull County’s absences are even more acute. Newton Falls schools are closed when nearly half the students were absent.

Irvin L. Gubser, industrial arts instructor at Hubbard High School, is installed as president of the Hubbard Kiwanis.