January 13

On This Day In History
	1898: Émile Zola's ?J'accuse? published On this day in 1898, French author Émile Zola published an open letter in the newspaper L'Aurore denouncing the French general staff for its role in the 1894 treason conviction of Jewish French army officer Alfred Dreyfus.
Alfred Dreyfus, before 1894.
Biography Of The Day
	Lilla Cabot Perry American artist Lilla Cabot Perry, born this day in 1848 and influenced heavily by painter Claude Monet, emulated the innovations of French Impressionism in her art and was a major promoter of Impressionism in the U.S.
A Cup of Tea, oil on canvas by Lilla Cabot Perry.
More Events On This Day In History
1997	1997 President Abdala Bucaram of Ecuador visited President Alberto Fujimori of Peru, the first official visit to Peru by an Ecuadoran president in 150 years.
1942	1942 American industrialist Henry Ford patented plastic automobile construction.
1884	1884 Russian-born American singer Sophie Tucker, the ?Last of the Red-Hot Mamas,? was born.
	1832 Horatio Alger, one of the most popular American authors in the last 30 years of the 19th century and perhaps the most socially influential American writer of his generation, was born.
	1808 Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the Treasury (1861?64) in Abraham Lincoln's wartime cabinet and sixth chief justice of the United States (1864?73), was born.