On this day in History - Jan. 12

• 1519 - Maximilian I of Hapsburg, German kaiser, dies.
• 1528 - Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
• 1588 - Nascimento de John Winthrop (1588-1649) em Suffolk, Inglaterra. Em 1630 foi com um grupo de Puritanos ingleses para a América, tornando-se o primeiro governador da Colónia da Baía de Massachusetts.
• 1592 - Titus Andronicus first staged at the Rose Theatre.
• 1628 - Charles Perrault, was born, folklorist (d. 1703) .
• 1665 - Pierre de Fermat, falecimento de, jurista e matemático francês (n. 1601).
• 1684 -French King Louis XIV marries Madame Maintenon.
• 1709 - Little Ice Age: Two-month freezing period begins in Franc - The coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail and at least 24.000 Parisians die.
• 1729 - Edmund Burke, was born in Dublin [d.1797]; statesman, philosopher (" Reflections on the Revolution in France") .
• 1737 - John Hancock, was born [d. 1793] , statesman (1st to sign Declaration of Independence.
• 1746 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, was born [d. 1827]; Swiss pedagogue .
• 1755 - Tsarina Elisabeth establishes 1st Russian University .
• 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.
• 1816 - A França decreta que a família Bonaparte deve ser banida do país para sempre.
• 1829 -Friedrich von Schlegel, German cultural philosopher / poet, dies at 56.
• 1836 - HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin on board reaches Sydney, Australia.
• 1838 - In order to avoid anti-Mormon persecution, Joseph Smith, Jr. and his followers leave Ohio for Missouri.
• 1856 -John Singer Sargent was born painter.
• 1865 - Marquês de Caxias assume o comando supremo dos aliados na Guerra do Paraguai
• 1865 - Ocupação da Guiana Francesa por tropas brasileiras .
• 1866 - Royal Aeronautical Society is formed (London).
• 1873 - Spiridon Louis, was born, Greek marathon runner .
• 1875 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
• 1876 - Jack London was born novelist.
• 1879 - Ray Harroun, first winner of the Indianapolis 500 (d. 1968).
• 1879 - Começo da Guerra Zulu entre a Grã-Bretanha e tribos nativas da Zululandia, que levou à destruição do Império Zulu, criado por Saka.
• 1881 - Batalla de San Juan de Chorrillos en la Guerra del Pacífico entre Chile, Perú y Bolivia.
• 1896 - H.L. Smith takes the first x-ray photograph.
• 1897 - Muere Sir Isaac Pitman, educador e inventor inglés.
• 1898 - Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1899 - Paul Hermann Müller, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 (d. 1965) .
• 1908 - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
• 1913 - Rubem Braga, nascimento de, jornalista poeta e escritor modernista brasileiro.
• 1914 - Orlando Villas Bôas, nascimento de, sertanista e indigenista brasileiro .
• 1915 -The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
• 1915- The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
• 1915 - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
• 1916 - Birth of South African leader (1978-1989) Pieter Wilhelm Botha. Botha replaced B J Vorster as prime minister and became South Africa's executive president.
• 1916 - Pieter Willem Botha was born political leader.
• 1926 - Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program Sam 'n' Henry, a precursor to Amos 'n' Andy; possibly the first situation comedy.
• 1926 - El Gobierno británico protesta ante el de México por el artículo 27 de la Constitución de este país, que prohíbe poseer terrenos petrolíferos a los extranjeros.
• 1932 -Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
• 1940 - World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland.
• 1942 - President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
• 1942 - Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o exército japonês captura a capital da Malásia.
• 1945 - World War II: The Soviets begin a very large offensive in Eastern Europe against the Nazis.
• 1948 - the Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.
• 1949 - Pablo Escobar, nascimento de, narcotraficante colombiano.
• 1954 - Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hrs later 2nd one-kills 115.
• 1955 - Gerardo Parra, nascimento de, ilusionista chileno.
• 1956 - Norman Kerry, dies, actor (Air Eagles, Phantom of Opera), dies at 61 .
• 1960 - Oliver Platt, was born, actor .
• 1963 - Muere Ramón Gómez de la Serna, escritor español, inventor de las "greguerías".
• 1964 - Abeid Karume, leader of the Zanzabari Afro-Shrazi Party, seizes power from the Arab dominated Zanzibar National Party and proclaims a peoples republic.
• 1964 - Jeff Bezos waz born entrepreneur president of amazon.com .
• 1966 - Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
• 1966 - Batman the TV series debuts on ABC.
• 1969 - Hard rock band Led Zeppelin release their eponymous first album.
• 1970 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
• 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.
• 1971 - Arnold Ulitz, nascimento de, escritor alemão .
• 1974 - Eclode uma rebelião militar na Etiópia .
• 1976 - UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestinian Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
• 1976 - Agatha Christie, dies, writer (b. 1890) .
• 1980 -Morreu o maestro português Frederico de Freitas .
• 1981 - El equipo nacional de Uruguay se proclama Campeón del Mundo de fútbol al derrotar al de Brasil en la "Copa de Oro".
• 1983 - Silvia Semana - nasceu neste dia; excelente aluna e futura professora de matemática; Miss Gondomar 2004. Vou ter o prazer de jantar com ela neste dia do seu 22º. aniversário.
• 1983 - Finaliza la rebelión ultraderechista de Sigfrido Ochoa en El Salvador.
• 1985 - Fallece Oscar Cruz, matador de toros colombiano.
• 1986 - Space shuttle Columbia takes-off with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
• 1990 - O Partido Comunista da Roménia foi proibido, após a deposição de Nicolae Ceauescu.
• 1991 - Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
• 1991 -A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.
• 1994 - Fallece Violeta Galdro, actriz chilena.
• 1995 - Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, is arrested for conspiring to kill Louis Farrakhan.
• 1995 - Pope John Paul II begins visit to Southeast Asia.
• 1995 -Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan.
• 1995 - O primeiro-ministro do Japão, Tomiichi Murayama, renuncia.
• 1996 - A primeira operação militar conjunta russo-americana após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, ocorreu com a chegada de forças russas à Bósnia .
• 1998 -Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.
• 2003 - Maurice Gibb, dies, singer and bassist in the Bee Gees (b. 1949)
• 2003 - Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, dies, dictator of Argentina (b. 1926)
• 2004 - President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox forged agreement on the contentious issues of immigration and Iraq, meeting in Monterrey before the opening of a 34-nation hemispheric summit.