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12 January, 2007
Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
12 January, 2006
The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
12 January, 2006
A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
12 January, 2006
Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Agca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.
12 January, 2006
The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
12 January, 2005
Deep Impact (space mission) launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.
12 January, 2004
The worlds largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
12 January, 1998
Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
12 January, 1995
Malcolm Xs daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, is arrested for conspiring to kill Louis Farrakhan.
12 January, 1992
A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by a referendum in Mali.
12 January, 1991
Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
12 January, 1976
The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
12 January, 1975
The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 to win Super Bowl X. Lynn Swann was named Super Bowl MVP.
12 January, 1971
All in the Family debuts on CBS.
12 January, 1971
The Harrisburg Six: The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
12 January, 1970
Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
12 January, 1969
Joe Namath and the New York Jets defeat the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III, becoming the first team from the American Football League to win American Footballs top championship. Namath was named MVP.
12 January, 1967
Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
12 January, 1966
Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
12 January, 1966
Batman the TV series debuts on ABC.
12 January, 1964
Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
12 January, 1945
World War II: The Soviets begin a large offensive against the Nazis in Eastern Europe.
12 January, 1942
President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
12 January, 1940
World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland.
12 January, 1932
Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
12 January, 1926
Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program Sam n Henry, a precursor to Amos n Andy, possibly the first situation comedy.
12 January, 1918
Finlands "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
12 January, 1915
The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
12 January, 1915
The United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
12 January, 1908
A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
12 January, 1906
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannermans cabinet (which included amongst its members H.H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
12 January, 1898
Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
12 January, 1895
The National Trust is founded in Britain.
12 January, 1875
Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
12 January, 1872
Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
12 January, 1866
The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
12 January, 1848
The Palermo rising in Sicily rises against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
12 January, 1808
The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
12 January, 1780
The first issue of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (then known as the Zürcher Zeitung) is published.
12 January, 1777
Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
12 January, 1773
The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
12 January, 1592
Titus Andronicus is first staged at the Rose Theatre.
12 January, 1528
Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
12 January, 1493
Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily.
12 January, 475
Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople.

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