SomeFacts | January 12

On this day - January 12

475 — Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at ...

1528 — Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already ...

1554 — Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in ...

1616 — The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta ...

1792 — Federalist Thomas Pinckney appointed first U.S. minister to ...

1808 — The organizational meeting leading to the creation of the ...

1808 — John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, ...

1848 — The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon ...

1866 — The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.

1872 — Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ...

1895 — The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.

1911 — The University of the Philippines College of Law is ...

1915 — The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposed ...

1916 — Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann become the first German ...

1918 — The Minnie Pit Disaster coal mining accident occurs in Halmer ...

1932 — Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United ...

1933 — Casas Viejas incident: 22 peasants killed by the Security and ...

1942 — World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

1945 — World War II: The Red Army begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive.

1955 — A Martin 2-0-2 and Douglas DC-3 collide over Boone County, ...

1962 — Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat ...

1964 — Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar ...

1966 — Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in ...

1967 — Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically ...

1969 — The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the ...

1970 — Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.

1971 — The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other ...

1976 — The United Nations Security Council votes 11–1 to allow the ...

1986 — Space Shuttle program: Congressman and future NASA ...

1990 — A seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian ...

1991 — Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the ...

1997 — Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches from the Kennedy ...

1998 — Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.

2001 — Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland ...

2004 — The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes ...

2005 — Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.

2006 — A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last ...

2007 — Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), one of the brightest comets ever ...

2010 — An earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing between 220,000 and ...

2012 — Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old ...

2015 — Government raids kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, ...

2016 — Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the ...

2020 — Taal Volcano in the Philippines erupts and kills 39 people.