Historical Events In January - 12

1992  Last building in Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished on this day in history.  

1992  US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman on January - 12.  

1992  On this day in history harry van Doorn, Dutch MP (KVP/KRO-chairman/PPR/CRM), dies at 76  

1993  On this day in history doctors announce Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease  

1993  Carles Mira, Spanish director (Que Nos Quiten Lo Bailao), dies at 45 on this day in history.  

1994  Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakhan's murder on January - 12.  

1994  On this day in history bob Horen, dies of cancer at 67  

1995  Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan on January - 12.  

1995  On this day in history murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in Los Angeles  

1995  On January - 12 pope John Paul II begins visit to Southeast Asia  

1995  On this day in history francis Lopez, songwriter, dies at 77  

1996  Russian troops arrived in Bosnia on a peace keeping mission with the NATO countries on this day in history.  

1996  Edmund Happold, engineer, dies at 65 on January - 12.  

1997  Ice skater Oksana Baiul injured slightly whiled driving intoxicated on this day in history.  

1997  On this day in history space Shuttle STS 81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space  

1997  On January - 12 tiger Woods wins Mercedes Championships  

1997  On this day in history charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher, dies at 95  

2005  On January - 12 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 on January - 12.  

2007  On this day in history 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  On January - 12 comet McNaught, the brightest comet in over 40 years, makes perihelion.  

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

2010  A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince. With a confirmed death toll over 230,000 it is one of the deadliest on record on January - 12.  

2010  Haiti earthquake in Haiti killing 100,000-316,000 people on January - 12.  

2013  A failed attempt to rescue a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia, results in 18 deaths on January - 12.  

2014  71st Golden Globe Awards: 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle win on January - 12.  

2017  US President Barack Obama in surprise presentation awards Vice President Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January - 12.  

2020  On January - 12 1st ATP Cup Men's Tennis, Sydney: Novak Đoković & Viktor Troicki beat Spanish pair Pablo Carreño Busta & Feliciano López 6-3, 6-4 to clinch inaugural title for Serbia, 2-1; Đoković beats Raphael Nadal 6-2, 7-6  

2020  Taal Volcano in Luzon erupts, leading to the evacuation of thousands of people on January - 12.  

2023  US Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden 's handling of classified documents [1] on this day in history.  

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1483  Hendrik van Nassau-Dillenburg en Dietz, gov/viceroy of Holland was born on this day in history.  

1483  Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German noblem (d. 1538) was born on January - 12.  

1492  On January - 12 birth of andreas Alicatus, Italian author  

1562  Charles Emanuel I, the great, Duke of Savoy was born on January - 12.  

1576  On this day in history birth of peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian  

1577  On this day in history birth of jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (d. 1644)  

1580  Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Belgian chemist, (found boiling pt temp) was born on this day in history.  

1580  On January - 12 birth of lord Alexander Ruthven, Scottish nobleman (d. 1600)  

0689  On this day in history benedict Biscop, English saint, dies  

1049  On January - 12 abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic, dies at 81  

1167  On January - 12 aelred of Hexham/Rievaulx, English abbot/saint, dies at about 56  

1321  Death of Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France (b. 1256) on this day in history.  

1390  Peter van Herenthals, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1519  On January - 12 maximilian I of Hapsburg, German kaiser, dies  

1537  On this day in history lorenzo di Credi, Italian painter, dies  

1665  Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63 on this day in history.