January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 353 days remaining until the end of the year (354 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).
KISS A GINGER DAY
1948 ― Civil rights and Indian independence activist leader Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi begins his final fast. He is assassinated on January 30, 1948 by Hindu activist nationalist Nathuram Godse.
1950 ― The "officially" USSR re-introduces the death penalty for treason, espionage and sabotage.
1954 ― In a speech at a Council on Foreign Relations dinner in his honor, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, announces that the United States will protect its allies through the “deterrent of massive retaliatory power.”
1965 ― "Hullabaloo" premieres on NBC-TV.
1966 ― President Lyndon Johnson says the U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends.
1967 ― In Louisville, KY, the draft board refuses the exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali.
1970 ― The Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet makes its maiden commercial flight.
1975 ― Chrysler Corporation offers the first car purchase rebates.
1979 ― LA's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, is arrested in Bellingham, WA.
1981 ― Low temperature of -35°F (-37°C) in Chester, MA (state record).
1988 ― Wilver Dornel "Willie" Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He is the all-time leader of the Pirates in HRs, RBIs, walks and strikeouts over his 21-year career with them.
1997 ― The HAL 9000 cmputer became operational in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the iconic sci-fi film by Stanley Kubrick.
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 ― 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.
2010 ― An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 strikes in Haiti, killing 230,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1729 – Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher, academic, and politician (d. 1797)
KISS A GINGER DAY
1528 ― Born Gustav Eriksson, Gustav I of Sweden "father of the nation" is crowned King of Sweden. He rules for 37 years.
1616 ― The Brazilian city of Belém, the entrance gate to the Amazon River, is founded by Captain Major Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
1812 ― The first cargo arrives in New Orleans by steam, on the Mississippi River from Natchez, MS.
1820 ― The Astronomical Society of London, the precursor of today's Royal Astronomical Society, is founded in England.
1879 ― The British-Zulu War begins as British troops under Lieutenant General Frederic Augustus invade Zululand from the southern African republic of Natal.
1896 ― In the U.S., the first X-ray photo in taken (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson, NC).
1906 ― The first time the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 100 (100.26).
1912 ― Low temperature of -47°F (-44°C) in Washta, IA (state record).
1932 ― Ophelia "Hattie" Wyatt Caraway, a Democrat from Arkansas, becomes the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
1933 ― The United States Congress recognizes the independence of the Philippines.
1943 ― Frankfurters are replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat & soy meal) during WWII. ― From The Old Foodie.
1945 ― Vice-Admiral John S. McCain Sr.'s Carrier Task Force (Task Force 38), destroys 41 Japanese ships in the Battle of South China Sea. McCain was the father of Admiral John S. McCain, Jr.; they became the first father-son pair ever to achieve four-star admiral rank in the U.S. Navy. He was the grandfather of the U.S. Senator from Arizona and 2008 Republican presidential nominee Navy Captain John S. McCain III, and the great-grandfather of John S. McCain IV. All four generations graduated from the United States Naval Academy.
1948 ― Civil rights and Indian independence activist leader Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi begins his final fast. He is assassinated on January 30, 1948 by Hindu activist nationalist Nathuram Godse.
1950 ― The "officially" USSR re-introduces the death penalty for treason, espionage and sabotage.
1954 ― In a speech at a Council on Foreign Relations dinner in his honor, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, announces that the United States will protect its allies through the “deterrent of massive retaliatory power.”
1965 ― "Hullabaloo" premieres on NBC-TV.
1966 ― President Lyndon Johnson says the U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends.
1967 ― In Louisville, KY, the draft board refuses the exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali.
1970 ― The Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet makes its maiden commercial flight.
1975 ― Chrysler Corporation offers the first car purchase rebates.
1979 ― LA's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, is arrested in Bellingham, WA.
1981 ― Low temperature of -35°F (-37°C) in Chester, MA (state record).
1988 ― Wilver Dornel "Willie" Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He is the all-time leader of the Pirates in HRs, RBIs, walks and strikeouts over his 21-year career with them.
1997 ― The HAL 9000 cmputer became operational in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the iconic sci-fi film by Stanley Kubrick.
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 ― 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.
2010 ― An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 strikes in Haiti, killing 230,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1729 – Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher, academic, and politician (d. 1797)
1856 – John Singer Sargent, American painter and academic (d. 1925)
1876 – Jack London, American novelist and journalist (d. 1916)
1916 – P. W. Botha, South African politician, 8th Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 2006)
1923 – Ira Hayes, American marine who helped raise the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1955)
1942 – Bernardine Dohrn, American domestic terrorist, political activist and pseudo-academic
1951 – Rush Limbaugh, American talk show host and author
1923 – Ira Hayes, American marine who helped raise the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1955)
1942 – Bernardine Dohrn, American domestic terrorist, political activist and pseudo-academic
1951 – Rush Limbaugh, American talk show host and author
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