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What Happened on January 12th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	Taal Volcano in the Philippines erupts, and kills 39 people.
2016	Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
2015	Government raids kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon.
2012	Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President Traian Băsescu's economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.
2010	An earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing between 220,000 and 300,000 people and destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince.
2007	Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), one of the brightest comets ever observed is at its zenith visible during the day.
2006	A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
2005	Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.
2004	The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
2001	Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
1998	Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
1997	Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-81 to the Russian space station Mir, carrying astronaut Jerry M. Linenger for a four-month stay on board the station, replacing astronaut John E. Blaha.
1991	Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
1990	A seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan, during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.
1986	Space Shuttle program: NASA Administrator Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a payload specialist.
1976	The United Nations Security Council votes 11–1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
1971	The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
1970	Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
1969	The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1967	Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1966	Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
1964	Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
1962	Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
1945	World War II: The Red Army begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive.
1942	World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
1932	Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
1918	The Minnie Pit Disaster coal mining accident occurs in Halmer End, Staffordshire, in which 155 men and boys die.
1916	Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
1915	The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
1911	The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
1895	The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
1872	Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
1866	The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1848	The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1808	John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver, founded in 669, from coastal erosion is abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture.
1808	The organizational meeting leading to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
1792	Federalist Thomas Pinckney appointed first U.S. minister to Britain.
1616	The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta, by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
1554	Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma.
1528	Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already reigned since his election in June 1523.
475	Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.

Famous People Born on January 12

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Year	Name
1940	Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2007)
1576	Petrus Scriverius, Dutch historian and scholar (d. 1660)
1969	Margaret Nagle, American screenwriter and producer
1940	Ronald Shannon Jackson, American drummer and composer (d. 2013)
1899	Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
1982	Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player
1957	John Lasseter, American animator, director, and producer
1992	Ishak Belfodil, Algerian footballer
1970	Zack de la Rocha, American singer-songwriter
1914	Mieko Kamiya, Japanese psychiatrist and psychologist (d. 1979)

Famous People Deaths On January 12

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Date	Name
1777	Hugh Mercer, Scottish-American general and physician (b. 1726)
1665	Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
2010	Daniel Bensaïd, French philosopher and author (b. 1946)
1940	Ralph Hitz, Austrian-American hotelier (b. 1891)
1320	John Dalderby, bishop of Lincoln
914	Ahmad Samani, Samanid emir
1958	Charles Hatfield, American meteorologist (b. 1875)
1997	Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (b. 1936)
2005	Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2014	Alexandra Bastedo, English actress (b. 1946)