January 12
1528
Gustav I of Sweden is crowned king.
1866 The
Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1895 The
National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
1908 A long-distance
radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
1915 The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give
women the right to vote.
1921 Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the
Black Sox Scandal, Judge
Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first
commissioner.
1926 Original radio show
Sam 'n' Henry aired on Chicago radio, later renamed
Amos 'n' Andy in 1928.
1932
Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
1962 Vietnam War:
Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
1967 Dr.
James Bedford becomes the first person to be
cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1969 The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win
Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1971 The
Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists [1 + 5 =
7?] 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.
1991
Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
1998 Nineteen European nations agree to forbid
human cloning.
2004 The world's largest ocean liner,
RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
2005
Deep Impact (the spacecraft, not the movie) launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.
2010 An
earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing over 100,000 people and destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince.
Births
1822 Ιtienne Lenoir (designed the internal combustion engine); 1856 John Singer Sargent

; 1876 Jack London; 1879 Ray Harroun

(won 1st Indy 500); 1893 Hermann Gφring; 1901 Karl Kόnstler;
1904 Mississippi Fred McDowell♪ ♫; 1905 Tex Ritter♪ ♫; 1910 Patsy Kelly; 1910 Luise Rainer; 1916 P. W. Botha; 1918 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; 1923 Ira Hayes (one of the Marines to
raise the flag on Iwo Jima, subject of
"Ira Hayes" by Johnny Cash); 1926 Ray Price♪ ♫; 1930 Tim Horton (founded Tim Hortons); 1939 William Lee Golden♪ ♫(The Oak Ridge Boys, he was the mountain man); 1941 Long John Baldry♪ ♫; 1944 Smokin' Joe Frazier

; 1947 Tom Dempsey (NFL place kicker, was notable for being born with no right toes (nor right fingers), who kicked a no-time-left, game-winning field goal from 63 yards in 1970, that was the NFL record, until it was broken by Matt Prater in 2013); 1951 Kirstie Alley; 1951 Chris Bell♪ ♫(Big Star); 1951 Rush Limbaugh (gas bag); 1952 Ricky Van Shelton♪ ♫; 1954 Howard Stern's Ass; 1960 Oliver Platt; 1964 Jeff Bezo$ (Amazon.com); 1965 Rob Zombie♪ ♫

; 1970 Zack de la Rocha♪ ♫(Rage Against The Machine); 1974 Melanie C♪ ♫(Spice Girls, she was 'Sporty Spice'); 1981 Amerie
Deaths
1899 Hiram Walker (founded Canadian Club whisky); 1976 Agatha Christie; 2001 William Redington Hewlett (co-founded Hewlett-Packard); 2003 Maurice Gibb♪ ♫(The Bee Gees); 2004 Randy VanWarmer♪ ♫