Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 12
This is a list of selected January 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1848 – The Palermo rising in Sicily commenced against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies. | no footnotes |
| 1872 – Yohannes IV was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years. | unreferenced section |
| 1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law, from which many leading Filipino political figures have since graduated, was founded in Quezon City. | promotional |
| 1921 – Seeking to restore confidence after the Black Sox Scandal, owners of Major League Baseball teams elected former U.S. district court judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (pictured) as the first commissioner of baseball. | significance of date, date not in article |
| 1932 – Running in a special election, Hattie Wyatt Caraway became the first woman elected to the United States Senate. | date not in article |
| 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union's Red Army crossed the Vistula River in Poland on their way to invade Germany. | refimprove |
| 1959 – Motown Records was founded as Tamla Records in Detroit, eventually popularizing the eponymous style of soul music. | refimprove |
| 1969 – In American football, the New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts to win Super Bowl III in one of the greatest upsets in American sports history. | unreferenced section |
| 1971 – The American situation comedy All in the Family, starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, was first broadcast on the CBS television network; the show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously deemed unsuitable for U.S. network television comedy. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania (1964)
- 475 – Basiliscus became Byzantine emperor after Zeno was forced to flee Constantinople.
- 1659 – The fort at Allahabad was surrendered to the forces of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.
- 1808 – John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church in Reculver from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture.
- 1895 – The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, was founded.
- 1899 – During a storm, the crew of the Lynmouth Lifeboat Station transported their 10-ton lifeboat 15 mi (24 km) overland in order to rescue a damaged schooner.
- 1916 – Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann became the first German aviators to be awarded the Pour le Mérite, Germany's highest military honour.
- 1967 – Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
- 1969 – British rock band Led Zeppelin released their eponymous first album in the United States.
- 2007 – Comet McNaught reached perihelion, becoming the brightest comet in over 40 years, with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.
- 2010 – An earthquake registering 7.0 Mw struck Haiti, killing more than 100,000 people.
- Born/died: | John Winthrop |b.or|1587; 1588| Rosalba Carriera |b|1673| Godscall Paleologue |b|1694|Priscilla Susan Bury |b|1799| John Singer Sargent |b|1856| Spyridon Louis |b|1873| Laura Adams Armer |b|1874| Hermann Göring |b|1893| Princess Patricia of Connaught |d|1974| Nikolai Podgorny |d|1983| Zhansaya Abdumalik|b|2000| Olga Ladyzhenskaya |d|2004| Daniel Bensaïd |d|2010
- 1554 - Bayinnaung, uyo paumalilo wakasonkhaniska ufumu ukulu chomene m'mbili ya Southeast Asia]], wakavwalikika korona ngati ni fumu ya Burma mzela wa Toungoo.
- 1777 - Mission Santa Clara de Asís (pachithuzi), michoni ya Spain ku California iyo ikapacha macharu ghaŵili. msumba wa Santa Clara na Santa Clara University, ukapangika na Franciscans.
- 1918 – Kuphulika mobisa pamgodi wa malasha ku Staffordshire, England, ukakoma ŵanalume na ŵanyamata 155.
- 1964 – Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah wakaŵa wakawiskika na vigeŵenga' mwakudangililika na John Okello, kumala vyaka 200 vya ulamuliro wa Arab mu Zanzibar.
- 2010 – Kaswili wa vya sayansi ya vyakuthambo wa ku Iran Massoud Ali-Mohammadi wakakomeka apo wakafumanga kunyumba kwake kufuma ku University of Tehran, uko wakaŵ pulofesa.
- Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
- Étienne Lenoir (b. 1822)
- Austin Chapman (d. 1926)