Today in History
12 January
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12 January |
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| 1492 Andreas Alicatus, Italian author was born | ||
| 1493 Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily | ||
| 1519 Maximilian I, German king and Holy Roman Emperor, died. | ||
| 1552 Dutch west coast hit by heavy storm, 100s killed | ||
| 1562 Charles Emanuel I, the great, Duke of Savoy was born | ||
| 1580 Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Belgian chemist, (found boiling pt temp) was born | ||
| 1598 Pope Clement VIII seizes duchy of Ferrara on death of Alfonso | ||
| 1599 Adrian van Utrecht, Flemish painter was born | ||
| 1665 Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician was born | ||
| 1684 French king Louis XIV marries Madame Maintenon | ||
| 1701 Frisia & Groningen begin use of Gregorian calendar | ||
| 1701 Parts of Netherlands adopt Gregorian calendar | ||
| 1737 John Hancock, American Revolutionary leader and first signer of the Declaration of Independence, born. | ||
| 1751 Ferdinand I, king of Sicily & Naples was born | ||
| 1755 Tsarina Elisabeth establishes 1st Russian University | ||
| 1773 The first public museum in America was organized in Charleston, South Carolina. | ||
| 1780 Wilhelm M L de Wette, German exegetist/theologist was born | ||
| 1806 French evacuate Vienna | ||
| 1807 Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden Neth, 150 die | ||
| 1809 British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814) | ||
| 1810 Ferdinand II, king of Sicily was born | ||
| 1816 France decreed that the Bonaparte family should be excluded from the country forever. | ||
| 1820 Royal Astronomical Society founded in England | ||
| 1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Sydney Australia | ||
| 1839 Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn | ||
| 1842 Franciscan nuns begin missionary work on Netherland Antilles | ||
| 1848 The revolution against Ferdinand II, king of the Two Sicilies, began. | ||
| 1853 Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician was born | ||
| 1879 The Zulu War began between the British of the Cape Colony and the natives of Zululand. | ||
| 1863 Vivekananda, Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer was born | ||
| 1903 Harry Houdini performs at Rembrandt theater, Amsterdam | ||
| 1903 Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170 | ||
| 1904 Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garison | ||
| 1907 Britain grants responsible governament to former colony of Transvaal | ||
| 1916 Britain proclaims Gilbert & Ellice Is colony in Pacific | ||
| 1924 History of Science Society organized at Boston | ||
| 1932 France's Laval governament falls | ||
| 1932 Hattie W. Caraway, a Democrat from Arkansas, became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate. | ||
| 1933 US Congress recognize independence Philippines | ||
| 1933 Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies | ||
| 1937 Plow for laying submarine cable patented | ||
| 1942 British troops reconquer Sollum | ||
| 1942 Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender | ||
| 1942 National War Labor Board created | ||
| 1942 The Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur was captured by the Japanese army. | ||
| 1944 Churchill & de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh | ||
| 1944 Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterd | ||
| 1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge | ||
| 1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea | ||
| 1946 Edouardo de Filippo's "Questi Fantasmi!," premieres in Rome | ||
| 1948 Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast | ||
| 1949 Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter | ||
| 1950 A Swedish tanker struck the British submarine Truculent during the submarine's trials in the River Thames. Only 15 of 70 men on the submarine survived. | ||
| 1950 The Soviet Union re-introduced the death penalty for treason, espionage and sabotage. | ||
| 1954 Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hrs later 2nd one-kills 115 | ||
| 1954 Queen Elizabeth opened a special session of the New Zealand parliament -- the first time the Queen opened a Commonwealth parliament outside the United Kingdom. | ||
| 1964 One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar National Party government was overthrown in a coup. | ||
| 1970 Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria | ||
| 1970 Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage | ||
| 1974 Libya and Tunisia announced they were to merge under the combined name of the "Islamic Arab Republic." | ||
| 1976 Dame Agatha Christie, queen of the detective story and creator of detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, died. | ||
| 1977 Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes | ||
| 1977 Anti-French demonstrations took place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible for leading the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes. | ||
| 1979 Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100 | ||
| 1987 Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training | ||
| 1989 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax) | ||
| 1989 Idi Amin expelled from Zaire | ||
| 1990 Romania outlawed the Communist Party, the first East European state and Warsaw Pact member to do so. | ||
| 1991 US Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq | ||
| 1991 Both houses of the United States Congress voted to authorize President George Bush to use force to compel Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. | ||
| 1992 The second round of Algeria's general elections was cancelled after strong gains by the Islamic Salvation Front in the first round. | ||
| 1995 Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan | ||
| 1995 Pope John Paul II begins visit to SE Asia | ||
| 1996 Russian troops arrived in Bosnia at the start of the first joint operation with U.S. forces in a potential combat zone since World War II. | ||
| 1997 Tiger Woods wins Mercedes Championships | ||