Page 9: Historical Events In January - 12

1992  On this day in history last building in Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished   

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

1992  Harry van Doorn, Dutch MP (KVP/KRO-chairman/PPR/CRM), dies at 76 on January - 12.   

1993  Doctors announce Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease on this day in history.   

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  Bob Horen, dies of cancer at 67 on this day in history.   

1995  On this day in history major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan   

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

1995  Pope John Paul II begins visit to Southeast Asia on this day in history.   

1995  On January - 12 francis Lopez, songwriter, dies at 77   

1996  Russian troops arrived in Bosnia on a peace keeping mission with the NATO countries on January - 12.   

1996  On January - 12 edmund Happold, engineer, dies at 65   

1997  On January - 12 ice skater Oksana Baiul injured slightly whiled driving intoxicated   

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

1997  On January - 12 tiger Woods wins Mercedes Championships   

1997  Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher, dies at 95 on this day in history.   

2005  On this day in history deep Impact is launched from Kennedy Space Center by a Delta 2 rocket.   

2006  On January - 12 a stampede during the Stoning of the devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 362 pilgrims.   

2007  On January - 12 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 this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

2017  On this day in history uS President Barack Obama in surprise presentation awards Vice President Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom   

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 this day in history.   

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

2024  Operation Prosperity Guardian: A U.S.-led coalition launches airstrikes at Houthi militant locations in Yemen, marking a retaliation to the Houthis' attacks on ships in the Red Sea 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 this day in history birth of andreas Alicatus, Italian author   

1562  On this day in history birth of charles Emanuel I, the great, Duke of Savoy   

1576  On January - 12 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 January - 12.   

1580  Lord Alexander Ruthven, Scottish nobleman (d. 1600) was born on this day in history.   

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

1049  Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic, dies at 81 on January - 12.   

1167  On this day in history 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 January - 12.   

1390  On January - 12 peter van Herenthals, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67   

1519  On this day in history maximilian I of Hapsburg, German kaiser, dies   

1537  On January - 12 lorenzo di Credi, Italian painter, dies   

1665  Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63 on January - 12.