Historical Events In January - 12

1992 Last building in Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished

1992 US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman

1993 Doctors announce Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease

1994 Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakhan's murder

1995 Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan

1995 Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in Los Angeles

1995 Pope John Paul II begins visit to Southeast Asia

1996 Russian troops arrived in Bosnia on a peace keeping mission with the NATO countries

1997 Ice skater Oksana Baiul injured slightly whiled driving intoxicated

1997 Space Shuttle STS 81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space

1997 Tiger Woods wins Mercedes Championships

1816 France decrees Bonaparte family to be exiled from the country forever

1863 President Davis delivers his "State of the Confederacy" address

1990 Martial Law is lifted in Beijing, China

1991 US Congress authorises military strikes against Iraq, for its invasion of Kuwait

1602 The birth of Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician

1729 The birth of Edmund Burke, British writer

1856 The birth of John Singer Sargent, American painter

1876 The birth of Jack London, American author

1893 The birth of Hermann Goering, German Nazi leader

1916 The birth of P.W Botha, South African politician

2005 Deep Impact is launched from Kennedy Space Center by a Delta 2 rocket.

2006 A stampede during the Stoning of the devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 362 pilgrims.

2007 An Argentine judge issues a warrant for the arrest of former President Isabel Martínez de Perón in connection with the disappearance of a human rights worker in 1976.

2007 The US Embassy in Athens is attacked with a rocket propelled grenade, which caused minimal damage and no injuries.

2007 Comet McNaught, the brightest comet in over 40 years, makes perihelion.

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