This Day, That Year – January 13

The first-ever Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip debuted on this day in 1930.

Did you know that:

• Galileo Galilei discovered Callisto, the fourth satellite of Jupiter, on this day in 1610
• Henry Ford patented a method of constructing plastic auto bodies on this day in 1942
• Orlando Bloom is an English actor born on this day in 1977