1992Japan apologizes for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II.

1990L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia is sworning as America’s first elected black governor.

1898J'accuse, author Emile Zola's famous defense of French army captured in Alfred Dreyfus is published in Paris. Dreyfus convicted of treason in the case that triggered charges of entire Semitism is vindicated years later.

And 1864Composer Steven Foster, whose songs include "Camptown Races" and "My Old Kentucky Home", dies in New York.

Today in History, January 13th, Mike Garcia, the Associated Press.