page_title: 2013
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2013 / Events / January
caption_attribution_description: English: The DJI's Phantom quadcopter
context_page_description: 2013 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2013th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 13th year of the 3rd millennium, the 13th year of the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2010s decade.
  2013 was designated as:
  International Year of Water Cooperation
  International Year of Quinoa
context_section_description: January 10 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
  January 11 – The French military begins a five-month intervention into the Northern Mali conflict, targeting the militant Islamist Ansar Dine group.
  January 16–20 – Thirty-nine international workers and one security guard die in a hostage crisis at a natural gas facility near In Aménas, Algeria.
  January 27 – An estimated 245 people die in a nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
caption: DJI releases the Phantom UAV in January which later became the world's most popular camera drone
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