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

Today’s birthdays: Actress Frances Sternhagen is 86. TV personality Nick Clooney is 82. Comedian Rip Taylor is 82. Comedian Charlie Brill is 78. Actor Richard Moll is 73. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus is 55. Country singer Trace Adkins is 54. Actress Penelope Ann Miller is 52. Actor Patrick Dempsey is 50. Actor Orlando Bloom is 39. Meteorologist Ginger Zee is 35.

In 1794, President Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the US flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.)

In 1966, Robert C. Weaver was nominated to be secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Johnson; Weaver became the first black Cabinet member.

In 1976, Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House as she led a performance of ‘‘La Traviata.’’

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 a total of 78 people; four passengers and a flight attendant survived.

In 1990, L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation’s first elected black governor.

Last year, in an emotional act of defiance, Charlie Hebdo resurrected its irreverent 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.