Today is Monday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2003. There are 352 days left in the year

1972 - A group of junior officers headed by colonel Acheampong (later appointed General) overthrows civilian government (headed by prime minister Kofi Busia) of Ghana.

1967 - Gnassingbe Eyadema, now a lieutenant colonel, seizes power in Togo in a bloodless coup.