Today is the 13th day of 2013 and the 24th day of winter.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1910, inventor Lee De Forest made a live radio broadcast from New York City's Metropolitan Opera House.

In 1942, the Allies announced they would prosecute war criminals after World War II.

In 1990, Virginian L. Douglas Wilder became the first elected African-American governor.

In 2012, the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Italy, killing 32 people.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Horatio Alger (1832-1899), author; Sophie Tucker (1884-1966), singer; Gwen Verdon (1925-2000), dancer/actress; Charles Nelson Reilly (1931-2007), actor; Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961- ), actress; Patrick Dempsey (1966- ), actor; Trace Adkins (1962- ), singer; Orlando Bloom (1977- ), actor; Nate Silver (1978- ), statistician.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 2005, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig sold the Milwaukee Brewers to Mark Attanasio for $223 million.

TODAY'S FACT: In 1959, Lee De Forest won an honorary Oscar for his 1920 invention that made "talkies," films with audio, possible.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "You can only milk a cow so long; then you're left holding the pail." -- Hank Aaron, inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on this date in 1982.

TODAY'S NUMBER: 21 -- Nazi leaders who were tried at Nuremberg for war crimes following World War II.

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (Jan. 11) and first quarter moon (Jan. 18).

Today is the 12th day of 2013 and the 23rd day of winter.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1932, Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to the Senate.

In 1991, a divided Congress authorized President George H.W. Bush to use force in expelling Iraq from Kuwait.

In 2010, an earthquake in Haiti devastated the impoverished country.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Jack London (1876-1916), writer; Joe Frazier (1944-2011), boxer; Kirstie Alley (1951- ), actress; Rush Limbaugh (1951- ), radio personality; Howard Stern (1954- ), radio personality; Christiane Amanpour (1958- ), TV journalist; Jeff Bezos (1964- ), Amazon.com founder; Naya Rivera (1987- ), actress.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1999, Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball was sold in auction to Todd McFarlane, creator of Spawn comics, for $3 million. At the time, it was the most ever paid for a sports artifact.

TODAY'S FACT: Amazon.com opened for business online in 1995, but it didn't make a profit until 2002.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none." -- Edmund Burke

TODAY'S NUMBER: 20 -- women in the U.S. Senate at the start of the 113th Congress in 2013.

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (Jan. 11) and first quarter moon (Jan. 18).

Today is the 11th day of 2013 and the 22nd day of winter.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt declared the Grand Canyon a national monument.

In 1964, the U.S. surgeon general issued the first U.S. government report concluding that smoking could be hazardous to health.

In 2003, departing Illinois Gov. George Ryan commuted the sentences of an unprecedented 156 death row inmates.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Alexander Hamilton (1755/57-1804), U.S. statesman; William James (1842-1910), philosopher/psychologist; Rod Taylor (1930- ), actor; Jean Chretien (1934- ), Canadian politician; Naomi Judd (1946- ), singer; Mary J. Blige (1971- ), singer; Amanda Peet (1972- ), actress.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 2008, Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter Marion Jones was given a six-month sentence for lying to federal investigators about performance-enhancing drugs and check fraud.

TODAY'S FACT: Alexander Hamilton was born to a poor family on the Caribbean island of Nevis. Conflicting sets of records leave it unclear whether he was born in 1755 or 1757.

TODAY'S QUOTE: " A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." -- William James

TODAY'S NUMBER: 160,340 -- estimated number of American lung cancer deaths in 2011.

TODAY'S MOON: New moon (Jan. 11).