On this day in History - Jan. 12

• 0475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople.
• 1321 - Maria of Brabant dies (b. 1256). Queen of Philip III of France
• 1483 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda was born (d. 1538). German nobleman.
• 1519 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor dies (b. 1459). German kaiser.
• 1528 - Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
• 1562 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy was born (d. 1630)
• 1576 - Petrus Scriverius was born (d. 1660). Dutch writer.
• 1583 - Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva dies (b. 1508). Governor of the Spanish Netherlands.
• 1588 - John Winthrop was born in Suffolk, England (d. 26. Mar 1649 in Boston) . First Governor of Massachusets.
• 1591 - Giuseppe Ribera was born (d. 1652). Spanish painter.
• 1592 - Titus Andronicus first staged at the Rose Theatre.
• 1597 - François Duquesnoy was born (d. 1643). French sculptor.
• 1628 - Charles Perrault was born (d. 1703). French folklorist.
• 1633 - John IV, King of Portugal got married with D. Luisa Francisca de Gusmão/ Casamento de D. João IV, Rei de Portugal, com D. Luísa Francisca de Gusmão
• 1665 - Pierre de Fermat dies (b. 1601). French mathematician and lawyer.
• 1674 - Giacomo Carissimi dies (b. 1605). Italian composer.
• 1684 - French King Louis XIV marries Madame Maintenon.
• 1700 - Marguerite Bourgeoys dies (b. 1620). Saint.
• 1705 - Luca Giordano dies (b. 1634). Italian artist.
• 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.
• 1715 - Jacques Duphly was born (d. 1789). French composer.
• 1716 - Antonio de Ulloa was born (d. 1795). Spanish general and governor of Louisiana.
• 1723 - Samuel Langdon was born (d. 1797). American President of Harvard University.
• 1729 - Edmund Burke was born in Dublin [d.1797]; statesman, philosopher (" Reflections on the French Revolution ") . A member of parliament for 29 years, opposing most of the policies of the ministers of King George III and supporting Catholic emancipation and merican Independence.
• 1732 - John Horsley dies. British archaeologist.
• 1735 - John Eccles dies (b. 1668). English composer.
• 1737 - John Hancock was born (d. 1793). American statesman (1st to sign Declaration of Independence.
• 1746 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was born (d. 1827). Swiss pedagogue .
• 1751 - King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies was born (d. 1825).
• 1751 - Jokob Michael Reinhold Lenz was born in Sesswegen. Russian-born German poet and dramatist. His work includes Der Hofmeister oder Vortheile der Privaterziehung ("The Tutor, or the Advantages of Private Education," 1774), and Die Soldaten ("The Soldiers," 1776).
• 1755 - Tsarina Elisabeth establishes 1st Russian University.
• 1759 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange dies (b. 1709).
• 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.
• 1777 - Hugh Mercer dies (wounded in battle). American Revolutionary War officer
• 1780 - The first issue of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (then known as the Zürcher Zeitung) is published.
• 1781 - Richard Challoner dies (b. 1691). English Catholic prelate.
• 1786 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt was born (d. 1855). English politician.
• 1797 - Gideon Brecher was born (d. 1873). Austrian physician.
• 1808 - The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
• 1816 - A França decreta que a família Bonaparte deve ser banida do país para sempre.
• 1817 - Juan Andres dies (b. 1740). Spanish Jesuit.
• 1818 - João Diogo de Barros Leitão de Carvalhosa dies (b. 18 Apr 1857). Portuguese noble (1st Viscount of Santarém)
• 1829 - Friedrich von Schlegel dies at 56. German cultural philosopher / poet.
• 1834 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville dies (b. 1759). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• 1848 - The Palermo rising in Sicily rises against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies
• 1849 - Jean Béraud was born (d. 1935). French painter.
• 1852 - Joseph Joffre was born (d. 1931). French general.
• 1856 - John Singer Sargent was born (d. 1925). American painter.
• 1863 - Swami Vivekananda was born (d. 1902). Indian guru and mystic.
• 1864 - US: Kit Carson's patrol kills 11 Navajo in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Territory.
• 1865 - Marquês de Caxias assume o comando supremo dos aliados na Guerra do Paraguai
• 1865 - Ocupação da Guiana Francesa por tropas brasileiras .
• 1866 - The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed (London).
• 1872 - Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
• 1873 - Spiridon Louis was born (d. 1940). Greek marathon runner .
• 1875 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
• 1876 - Jack London was born (d. 1916). American novelist (The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) ).
• 1876 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was born (d. 1948). Italian composer
• 1877 - Frank J. Corr was born (d. 1934). Mayor of Chicago.
• 1878 - Ferenc Molnár was born (d. 1952). Hungarian writer.
• 1879 - Ray Harroun was born (d. 1968). American race car driver, first winner of the Indianapolis 500.
• 1879 - The British-Zulu War begins as British troops under Lieutenant General Frederic Augustus invade Zululand from the southern African republic of Natal / Começo da Guerra Zulu entre a Grã-Bretanha e tribos nativas da Zululandia, que levou à destruição do Império Zulu, criado por Saka.
• 1880 - Sir Jacob Epstein was born. Anglo-American sculptor, created the sculpture for the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
• 1881 - Batalla de San Juan de Chorrillos en la Guerra del Pacífico entre Chile, Perú y Bolivia.
• 1882 - Milton Sills was born (d. 1930). American actor.
• 1884 - Texas Guinan was born (d. 1933). American actress.
• 1890 - Júlio César Machado dies (b. 1835). Portuguese writer
• 1892 - Mikhail Gurevich was born (d. 1976). Russian aircraft designer.
• 1893 - Hermann Göring was born (d. 1946). Nazi official.
• 1893 - Alfred Rosenberg was born in Reval, Estonia (d. 1946). Nazi official. Joins the Nazi Party before Hitler, administers occupied Russia during World War II, and was executed at Nuremberg for war crimes.
• 1894 - Georges Carpentier was born (d. 1975). French boxer.
• 1895 - The National Trust is founded in Britain.
• 1896 - H.L. Smith takes the first x-ray photograph.
• 1896 - Rex Ingram was born (d. 1950). Irish director and actor.
• 1897 - Sir Isaac Pitman dies. English educator and inventor.
• 1898 - Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1899 - Paul Hermann Müller was born (d. 1965). Swiss chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948.
• 1902 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia was born (d. 1969)
• 1905 - Tex Ritter was born (d. 1974). American cowboy actor and singer.
• 1905 - James Bennett Griffin was born (d. 1997). American archaeologist.
• 1906 - Daniil Kharms was born (d. 1942). Russian playwright.
• 1906 - Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H.H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
• 1906 - Woodward Maurice was born in Texas. Country singer.
• 1907 - Patsy Kelly was born (d. 1981). American actress.
• 1907 - Sergei Korolev was born (d. 1966). Russian rocket scientist.
• 1908 - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
• 1908 - Jean Delannoy was born. French film director
• 1908 - Clement Hurd was born (d. 1988). American children's book illustrator.
• 1908 - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
• 1909 - Hermann Minkowski dies (b. 1864). German mathematician.
• 1910 - Luise Rainer was born. German actress.
• 1912 - James Bennett Griffin was born (d. 1997). American archaeologist.
• 1913 - Rubem Braga was born at Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, Espírito Santo (d. 19 Dec 1990 in Rio de Janeiro). Brazilian journalist, poet and writer.
• 1914 - Orlando Villas Bôas was born. Brazilian sertanist.
• 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.
• 1915 - Paul Jarrico was born (d. 1997). American writer
• 1916 - Pieter Willem Botha was born. President of South Africa (1978-1989). Botha replaced B J Vorster as prime minister and became South Africa's executive president.
• 1916 - Jay McShann was born. American musician
• 1917 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was born. Indian spiritualist
• 1918 - Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
• 1920 - James L. Farmer, Jr. was born (d. 1999). American civil rights activist.
• 1923 - Ira Hayes was born. American soldier
• 1925 - Scottie MacGregor was born. American actress
• 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 - Ray Price was born. American singer
• 1926 - Pedro Augusto Mota dies. Brazilian graphics worker, journalist, militant anarchist and labor activist.
• 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.
• 1928 - Police seize copies of Radcliffe Hall's lesbian novel, "The Well of Loneliness"
• 1928 - Ruth Brown was born. American singer
• 1928 - Lloyd Ruby was born. American race car driver.
• 1930 - Tim Horton was born (d. 1974). Canadian hockey player and entrepreneur.
• 1930 - Glenn Yarborough was born. American singer and songwriter
• 1932 - Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas, becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
• 1932 - Des O'Connor was born. British television presenter
• 1935 - Kreskin was born. Mentalist
• 1937 - Shirley Eaton was born. British actress
• 1940 - World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland.
• 1940 - Edward Smith dies (b. 1899). English soldier.
• 1941 - Long John Baldry was born (d. 2005). British blues singer.
• 1942 - President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
• 1942 - Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o exército japonês captura a capital da Malásia.
• 1943 - Jan Campert dies (b. 1902). Dutch journalist and writer.
• 1944 - Lance C. Wade dies (b. 1915). American pilot.
• 1944 - Hans Henning Atrott was born. German philosopher, critic of Christianity
• 1944 - Joe Frazier was born. American boxer
• 1944 - Vlastimil Hort was born. Czechoslovakian chess player
• 1945 - World War II: The Soviets begin a very large offensive in Eastern Europe against the Nazis.
• 1946 - George Duke was born. American musician.
• 1946 - Lady Cosgrove was born. Scottish judiciary figure
• 1947 - Afrânio Peixoto dies (b. 1876). Brazilian physician and writer.
• 1948 - the Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.
• 1948 - Khalid Abdul Muhammed was born (d. 2001). American Nation of Islam spokesman.
• 1948 - Kenny Allen was born. English footballer
• 1948 - William Nicholson was born. English writer
• 1949 - Haruki Murakami was born. Japanese novelist
• 1949 - Pablo Escobar was born. Colombian drugs trafficant.
• 1949 - Wayne Wang was born. Hong Kong-born film director
• 1950 - Sheila Jackson Lee was born. American politician.
• 1950 - Bob McEwen was born. American politician.
• 1950 - Ricky Ray Rector was born (d. 1992). American murderer.
• 1951 - U. N. Convention on Genocide stipulates that genocide is a crime under international law and must be prosecuted by those countries signing the convention.
• 1951 - Kirstie Alley was born. American actress.
• 1951 - Ann Althouse was born. American law professor
• 1951 - Rush Limbaugh was born. American radio personality.
• 1952 - Walter Mosley was born. American author
• 1954 - Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9 hours later 2nd one-kills 115.
• 1954 - Howard Stern was born. American radio host
• 1955 - Rockne O'Bannon was born. Writer and television producer
• 1955 - Gerardo Parra was born. Chilean ilusionist.
• 1956 - Norman Kerry dies (b. 1894). American actor (Air Eagles, Phantom of Opera).
• 1957 - António Vitorino was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1957 - John Lasseter was born. American director, writer, and animator
• 1959 - Blixa Bargeld was born. German singer (Einstürzende Neubauten)
• 1959 - Per Gessle was born. Swedish songwriter
• 1960 - Oliver Platt was born. Canadian actor.
• 1960 - Dominique Wilkins was born. American basketball player.
• 1960 - Nevil Shute dies (b. 1899). British-born Australian novelist, best-known for the novel On the Beach (1957).
• 1962 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams dies (b. 1869). Russian writer and feminist.
• 1963 - François Girard was born. French Canadian film director and screenwriter
• 1963 - Ramón Gómez de la Serna dies. Spanish writer. Inventor of the "greguerías".
• 1963 - Bob Dylan sings Blowin' In the Wind on the BBC Radio presentation of The Madhouse on Castle Street. The song became a classic of the 1960s protest movement.
• 1964 - Abeid Karume, leader of the Zanzibari Afro-Shrazi Party, seizes power from the Arab dominated Zanzibar National Party and proclaims a peoples republic.
• 1964 - Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
• 1964 - Jeff Bezos was born. Entrepreneur, president of amazon.com.
• 1965 - Lorraine Hansberry dies in New York (b. 1936). American writer. A Raisin in the Sun, is the first drama by a black woman produced on Broadway.
• 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.
• 1966 - Rob Zombie was born. American musician, artist, and writer
• 1966 - Olivier Martinez was born. French actor
• 1967 - Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
• 1967 - Vendela Kirsebom was born in Stockholm. Swedish model (Sports Illustrated 1993)
• 1968 - Heather Mills McCartney, British activist
• 1969 - Joe Namath and the New York Jets defeat the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III, becoming the first team from the American Football League to win American Football's top championship.
• 1969 - Hard rock band Led Zeppelin release their eponymous first album.
• 1969 - Super Bowl III: Joe Namath led the New York Jets to a 16–7 win over the favoured Baltimore Colts.
• 1969 - Robert Prosinečki was born. Croatian footballer
• 1970 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
• 1970 - Zack de la Rocha was born. American musician (Rage Against the Machine)
• 1970 - Raekwon was born. American rapper
• 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 - All in the Family debuts on CBS.
• 1971 - Arnold Ulitz was born. German writer.
• 1972 - Espen Knutsen was born. Norwegian hockey player
• 1972 - Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of Rajiv Gandhi
• 1972 - Jason Sklar and Randy Sklar were born. American comedians
• 1974 - Eclode uma rebelião militar na Etiópia.
• 1974 - Melanie Chisholm was born. British singer
• 1974 - Tor Arne Hetland was born. Norwegian cross-country skiier
• 1975 - Jason Freese was born. American musician.
• 1975 - Jocelyn Thibault was born. National Hockey League goaltender
• 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 (b. 1890). English writer.
• 1977 - Dominic Etli was born. American footballer
• 1977 - Henri-Georges Clouzot dies (b. 1907). French film director and screenwriter.
• 1978 - Kris Roe was born. American musician (The Ataris)
• 1978 - Kim Sa Rang was born. Korean actress
• 1978 - Luis Ayala was born. baseball pitcher
• 1979 - Marián Hossa was born. Slovak ice hockey player
• 1979 - Grzegorz Rasiak was born. Polish footballer
• 1979 - 6th American Music Award: Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt win
• 1980 - Amerie was born. American singer and songwriter
• 1980 - Bobby Crosby was born. American baseball player
• 1980 - Frederico de Freitas dies. Portuguese conductor.
• 1981 - El equipo nacional de Uruguay se proclama Campeón del Mundo de fútbol al derrotar al de Brasil en la "Copa de Oro".
• 1982 - Dontrelle Willis was born. American baseball player
• 1982 - Sherzod Abdurahmonov was born. Uzbekistanian boxer
• 1983 - Silvia Semana - nasceu neste dia; Professora de matemática; Miss Gondomar 2004. Infelizmente motivos profissionais inadiáveis impedem-se de jantar com ela neste dia do seu 23º. aniversário.
• 1983 - Finaliza la rebelión ultraderechista de Sigfrido Ochoa en El Salvador.
• 1983 - Spain: 6th CNT-AIT anarchist Congress, Barcelona (January 12-16th).
• 1983 - Nikolai Podgorny dies (b. 1903). President of the USSR.
• 1983 - Rebop Kwaku Baah dies (b. 1944). Nigerian percussionist.
• 1984 - Scott Olsen was born. American baseball player
• 1985 - Yohana Cobo was born. Spanish actress
• 1985 - Oscar Cruz dies. Colombian bull fighter.
• 1986 - Space shuttle Columbia takes-off with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
• 1986 - Miguel Ángel Nieto was born. Spanish footballer
• 1987 - Andi_Muise was born in North Bay, Ontario. Canadian supermodel.
• 1987 - Will Rothhaar was born. American actor
• 1988 - Chris Casement was born. Irish footballer
• 1989 - Zeeshan Aslam was born. Pakistani prince
• 1990 - O Partido Comunista da Roménia foi proibido, após a deposição de Nicolae Ceauescu.
• 1990 - Sergey Karjakin was born. Ukrainian Chess Player
• 1990 - Laurence J. Peter dies (b. 1919). Canadian-born educator et writer.
• 1991 - Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
• 1991 - Keye Luke dies (b. 1904). Chinese-born actor.
• 1992 - A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by referendum in Mali.
• 1992 - Mao Kobayashi was born. Japanese gravure idol
• 1994 - Violeta Galdro dies. Chilean actress.
• 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 - Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in LA
• 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.
• 1996 - Joachim Nitsche dies (b. 1926). German mathematician.
• 1997 - Charles B. Huggins dies (b. 1901). Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1997 - Jean-Edern Hallier dies (b. 1936). French author.
• 1998 - Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.
• 1998 - Eusébio Lopes Soares dies. Portuguese physician and "father of anesthesy" in Portugal.
• 1999 - Betty Lou Gerson dies (b. 1914). American voice actress.
• 1999 - Doug Wickenheiser dies (b. 1961). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 2000 - Marc Davis dies (b. 1913). American animator.
• 2000 - Bobby Phills dies (b. 1969). American basketball player.
• 2001 - The first foreigner to coach the England football team, the Swedish Sven Goran Eriksson, flies in to start his new job.
• 2001 - Affirmed dies (b. 1975). American racehorse.
• 2001 - Luiz Bonfá dies (b. 1922). Brazilian guitarist and composer.
• 2001 - William Hewlett dies (b. 1913). American engineer and businessman.
• 2001 - Adhemar Ferreira da Silva dies (b. 1927). Brazilian athlete, olympic champion (triple jump).
• 2002 - Stanley Unwin dies (b. 1911). South African comedian.
• 2002 - Cyrus Vance dies (b. 1917). U.S. Secretary of State
• 2003 - Dean Amadon dies (b. 1912). American ornithologist.
• 2003 - Kinji Fukasaku dies (b. 1930). Japanese director.
• 2003 - Maurice Gibb dies (b. 1949). Singer and bassist in the Bee Gees
• 2003 - Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri dies (b. 1926). Dictator of Argentina
• 2003 - Brandon Vedas dies (b. 1981). Internet drug abuser.
• 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.
• 2004 - The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
• 2004 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya dies (b. 1921). Russian mathematician.
• 2004 - Randy VanWarmer dies (b. 1955). American singer and songwriter.
• 2005 - Deep Impact (space mission) launches from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.
  Tanzania - Zanzibar Revolution Day
• 2005 - Alessia di Matteo dies (b. 2003). First survivor of eight transplants in one operation
• 2005 - Amrish Puri dies (b. 1932). Indian actor
• 2005 - Edmund S. Valtman dies (b. 1914). Estonian-born cartoonist.
• 2006 - The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
• 2006 - A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
• 2006 - Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after serving 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.
• 2006 - The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
• 2007 - Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
• 2007 - Alice Coltrane dies (b. 1937). American jazz musician.
• Tanzania - Zanzibar Revolution Day
• India- National Youth Day Swami Vivekananda's birthday