Historical Events In January - 12

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

1992  On this day in history uS male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman  

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  On this day in history carles Mira, Spanish director (Que Nos Quiten Lo Bailao), dies at 45  

1994  Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakhan's murder on this day in history.  

1994  Bob Horen, dies of cancer at 67 on January - 12.  

1995  On January - 12 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 January - 12.  

1995  Francis Lopez, songwriter, dies at 77 on January - 12.  

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

1996  On this day in history edmund Happold, engineer, dies at 65  

1997  On this day in history ice skater Oksana Baiul injured slightly whiled driving intoxicated  

1997  On January - 12 space Shuttle STS 81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space  

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

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  Comet McNaught, the brightest comet in over 40 years, makes perihelion on January - 12.  

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

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.  

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

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

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

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1483  Hendrik van Nassau-Dillenburg en Dietz, gov/viceroy of Holland was born on January - 12.  

1483  Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German noblem (d. 1538) was born on this day in history.  

1492  Andreas Alicatus, Italian author was born on January - 12.  

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

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

1577  On January - 12 birth of jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (d. 1644)  

1580  On this day in history birth of jean Baptiste van Helmont, Belgian chemist, (found boiling pt temp)  

1580  Lord Alexander Ruthven, Scottish nobleman (d. 1600) was born on January - 12.  

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

1049  On this day in history abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic, dies at 81  

1167  Aelred of Hexham/Rievaulx, English abbot/saint, dies at about 56 on this day in history.  

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

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  On January - 12 pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63