January 12

January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 353 days remaining (354 in leap years).

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Events

• 1528 - Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden
• 1709 - Little Ice Age: Two-month freezing period begins in France - The coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail and at least 24.000 Parisians die
• 1773 - The first American museum open to the public is opened in (Charleston, South Carolina).
• 1777 - Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California
• 1838 - In order to avoid anti-Mormon persecution, Joseph Smith, Jr. and his followers leave Ohio for Missouri.
• 1866 - Royal Aeronautical Society is formed (London).
• 1875 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
• 1896 - H.L. Smith takes the first x-ray photograph.
• 1898 - Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1908 - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
• 1915 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of Congress.
• 1915 - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
• 1926 - Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program Sam 'n' Henry, a precursor to Amos 'n' Andy; possibly the first situation comedy.
• 1932 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
• 1940 - World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland.
• 1942 - President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
• 1945 - World War II: The Soviets begin a very large offensive in Eastern Europe against the Nazis.
• 1964 - Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt and later proclaim a republic.
• 1966 - Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
• 1966 - Batman debuts on ABC.
• 1969 - Super Bowl III: New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts, 16-7.
• 1969 - Hard rock band Led Zeppelin release their eponymous first album.
• 1970 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
• 1971 - All in the Family debuts on CBS.
• 1971 - "Harrisburg Six": The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, DC.
• 1976 - UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestinian Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
• 1986 - Space shuttle Columbia takes-off with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
• 1991 - Persian Gulf War: An act of the United States Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
• 1992 - In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the fictional computer HAL 9000 was supposed to have been initially activated on this date.
• 1995 - Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, is arrested for conspiring to kill Louis Farrakhan.
• 1998 - 19 European nations agree to forbid human cloning.

Births

• 1628 - Charles Perrault, folklorist (d. 1703)
• 1729 - Edmund Burke, statesman, philosopher (d. 1797)
• 1746 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (d. 1827)
• 1856 - John Singer Sargent, artist (d. 1925)
• 1863 - Swami Vivekananda, guru (d. 1902)
• 1873 - Spiridon Louis, Greek marathon runner
• 1876 - Jack London, author (d. 1916)
• 1876 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer (d. 1948)
• 1877 - Frank J. Corr, mayor of Chicago, IL (d. 1934
• 1878 - Ferenc Molnár, writer (d. 1952)
• 1879 - Ray Harroun, first winner of the Indianapolis 500 (d. 1968)
• 1884 - Texas Guinan, vaudeville performer (d. 1933)
• 1893 - Hermann Göring, Nazi official (d. 1946)
• 1893 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi official (d. 1946)
• 1896 - Rex Ingram, director and actor (d. 1950)
• 1899 - Paul Hermann Müller, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 (d. 1965)
• 1905 - Tex Ritter, actor, singer (d. 1974)
• 1908 - Jean Delannoy, film director
• 1910 - Luise Rainer, actress
• 1915 - Paul Jarrico, writer (d. 1997)
• 1916 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa
• 1926 - Ray Price, country music singer
• 1930 - Glenn Yarborough, singer, songwriter
• 1935 - Kreskin, mentalist
• 1943 - Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for The Doors
• 1944 - Joe Frazier, boxing champion
• 1946 - George Duke, musician
• 1949 - Wayne Wang, director
• 1950 - Sheila Jackson Lee, American politician
• 1951 - Kirstie Alley, actress
• 1951 - Rush Limbaugh, radio personality
• 1952 - Ricky Van Shelton, country musician
• 1954 - Howard Stern, "shock-jock" radio host
• 1955 - Rockne O'Bannon, writer, producer
• 1957 - John Lasseter, director, writer, animator
• 1959 - Blixa Bargeld, lead singer for Einstürzende Neubauten
• 1960 - Oliver Platt, actor
• 1964 - Jeff Bezos, president of amazon.com
• 1966 - Rob Zombie, musician, artist, writer
• 1970 - Zack de la Rocha, singer
• 1971 - Richard deCosta, composer
• 1980 - Bobby Crosby, baseball player
• 1982 - Dontrelle Willis, baseball pitcher

Deaths

• 1519 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
• 1665 - Pierre de Fermat, mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
• 1674 - Giacomo Carissimi, Baroque era composer
• 1817 - Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1740)
• 1943 - Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1902)
• 1960 - Nevil Shute, writer (b. 1899)
• 1965 - Lorraine Hansberry, writer
• 1976 - Agatha Christie, writer (b. 1890)
• 2001 - William Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard (b. 1913)
• 2002 - Cyrus Vance, former United States Secretary of State (1977-1980) (b. 1917)
• 2003 - Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, dictator of Argentina (b. 1926)
• 2003 - Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese director (b. 1930)
• 2003 - Maurice Gibb, singer and bassist in the Bee Gees (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances

Fiction

• In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the fictional computer HAL became operational on January 12. In the movie by Stanley Kubrick he was "born" in 1992, while in the book by Arthur C. Clarke the same event occurred in 1997.

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