Today is Friday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2017. There are 352 days left in the year.

Birthdays: Actress Frances Sternhagen is 87. Comedian Rip Taylor is 83. Comedian Charlie Brill is 79. Actor Richard Moll is 74. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus is 56. Country singer Trace Adkins is 55. Actress Penelope Ann Miller is 53. Actor Patrick Dempsey is 51. Actor Orlando Bloom is 40.

In 1794, President George Washington approved 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.)

In 1915, a magnitude-7 earthquake centered in Avezzano, Italy, claimed some 30,000 lives.

In 1941, a new law went into effect granting Puerto Ricans US birthright citizenship. Novelist and poet James Joyce died in Zurich. He was 58.

In 1982, an Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River while trying to take off during a snowstorm, killing 78 people; four passengers and a flight attendant survived.

In 1990, L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation’s first elected black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond.

In 2012, the Italian luxury liner Costa Concordia ran aground off the Tuscan island of Giglio and flipped onto its side; 32 people were killed. Myanmar freed some of its most famous political prisoners.

In 2016, General Electric confirmed it will move its headquarters from Connecticut to Boston.